Pearlsnaps
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Howdy y'all. Pretty new to the forum. Looking pretty seriously at the YT359C. I have a small farm in north Texas under 20 acres. I'm currently paying somebody to bale 8 acres two or three times a year worth about 60 to 75 round bales each year. Everything is mostly for the cows to eat. Just regular grass trying to slowly improve it from where the previous owner just let it go. It is hilly terrain as in no real level spot except for right around the house and shop. When my wife and family first bought the farm about 5 years ago, it came with a ym 2500. And after quite a bit of work, I got it working enough to be somewhat useful on the farm. The previous owner passed away and his widow did not care for farm work.
I grew up helping my grandpa on his farm, but he mainly did loader work with his dump truck and we used an old Massey Ferguson to just mow his 55 acres. I know it was used for hay at one time, that was long before I was born.
Experience I have for tractors comes from that growing up and a very unfortunate 3 month stint on a Kioti 7320. That's a story for another forum, but needless to say I'm now looking at the Yanmar 359c.
I've done lots of reading, and this is probably an oversized tractor for what I need, but I would like to be able to purchase my own hay equipment if my part-time hay man decides to get out of the hay business. And yes I've read all of those stories about getting into doing your own hay. This will only be for my own usage for my cows and retired rodeo horse.
I've been speaking to a dealer out of Kerens, TX. Watched a couple of their videos and they also sell Massey equipment.
Anything in particular besides normal tractor questions I should be asking?
Sorry for the long post, but after my most recent negative tractor buying experience, I'm trying to get all of the information possible.
I grew up helping my grandpa on his farm, but he mainly did loader work with his dump truck and we used an old Massey Ferguson to just mow his 55 acres. I know it was used for hay at one time, that was long before I was born.
Experience I have for tractors comes from that growing up and a very unfortunate 3 month stint on a Kioti 7320. That's a story for another forum, but needless to say I'm now looking at the Yanmar 359c.
I've done lots of reading, and this is probably an oversized tractor for what I need, but I would like to be able to purchase my own hay equipment if my part-time hay man decides to get out of the hay business. And yes I've read all of those stories about getting into doing your own hay. This will only be for my own usage for my cows and retired rodeo horse.
I've been speaking to a dealer out of Kerens, TX. Watched a couple of their videos and they also sell Massey equipment.
Anything in particular besides normal tractor questions I should be asking?
Sorry for the long post, but after my most recent negative tractor buying experience, I'm trying to get all of the information possible.
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