swampy6
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- Joined
- Oct 20, 2017
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- Tractor
- Mahindra 4540 4WD
We have our battery on a maintainer/charger all year, we can hit minus 30 up here in the winter so the m/c will save your ass.Loving the heck out of our 4540. I mean loving it. I know its not for everyone but for us its almost the perfect tractor. I used mine today to move our 10x10 chicken roosting house. So far I have zero complaints. I keep it lubed, I spray all non greaseable points with silicone spray, use the same FPPF diesel additive I use in my powerstroke and duramax and trickle charge when not in use for a while. We needed a work tractor that can put torque to the ground and thats what we got. We also heat 100% with wood I used to fill our wood shed with wood from our stacks with a wheel barrow and it would take hours and I would be dead after. Now it takes 20 minutes.
Our 4540 is a 2016, so far nothing has gone wrong with it. The backhoe has allowed us to have some stump less trails around the house lot. I plow a few driveways along with all the trails on our house lot during the winter, sure makes plowing easy.
After the next face cord is up, I'll be digging some stumps out. Nothing big but high enough that it "wood" do damage to the blades when mowing the trails.
We do have a pellet stove too, both are in the basement. We burn between 50 & 70 bags per year.