Thank you all, this is the feedback I need to hear.
Here is some more info.
My present ztr is 60" with a 25hp KAW/gas. I have no compliants with it other than all I can do is mow and pull a lawn trailer. But I knew that when I made my initial choice, now I am rethinking and looking to possibly change the situation.
My lawn is no show piece, just big and open with some small trees we have planted. (The property was a pasture/hay field that was divided into tracts.)
We bought the house about 3 yrs ago from a guy that ran out of money building. Got a great deal but had a lot of work to do, mainly outside. There was zero landscaping/yard. Basically weeds and ruts, but I have addressed the major problems of that already with the in-laws tractor. Disc and grade job, then re-seeded about 1/2 of front yard, and immediate area behind house. In the fixed areas I can fly on the ztr, but the rest of the yard is like riding train tracks and much slower going. All in all it takes about 4 hrs to mow the entire thing and burns about 5 gal. of gas in the process.
I have been working on the landscaping and cleaning up the property too. I have been filing in ruts and ditches along drive and in yard, but that has been mainly lots of shovel work. I have also put 2 tri axles of fill dirt around the entire house to help correct my grade away (cousin has bobcat, BIG help there) and built a large deck on the back. Plus I am getting ready for a 30x40 shop building.
With all of that, I still have things I need or would like to do. That is why I am leaning to at least the B series tractors. The more I try comparing the models, I definitely need it to handle cat 1 equipment on the 3PH, but nothing crazy like a 15' seed drill. My father has a farm (@ 40 miles away) and with the father in-law, between the two I can get just about anything I could use implement wise. But I do hate borrowing stuff, and having to plan for when it could be convienent to get stuff and return it, especially with the weather and my work hours.
Thanks again
Here is some more info.
My present ztr is 60" with a 25hp KAW/gas. I have no compliants with it other than all I can do is mow and pull a lawn trailer. But I knew that when I made my initial choice, now I am rethinking and looking to possibly change the situation.
My lawn is no show piece, just big and open with some small trees we have planted. (The property was a pasture/hay field that was divided into tracts.)
We bought the house about 3 yrs ago from a guy that ran out of money building. Got a great deal but had a lot of work to do, mainly outside. There was zero landscaping/yard. Basically weeds and ruts, but I have addressed the major problems of that already with the in-laws tractor. Disc and grade job, then re-seeded about 1/2 of front yard, and immediate area behind house. In the fixed areas I can fly on the ztr, but the rest of the yard is like riding train tracks and much slower going. All in all it takes about 4 hrs to mow the entire thing and burns about 5 gal. of gas in the process.
I have been working on the landscaping and cleaning up the property too. I have been filing in ruts and ditches along drive and in yard, but that has been mainly lots of shovel work. I have also put 2 tri axles of fill dirt around the entire house to help correct my grade away (cousin has bobcat, BIG help there) and built a large deck on the back. Plus I am getting ready for a 30x40 shop building.
With all of that, I still have things I need or would like to do. That is why I am leaning to at least the B series tractors. The more I try comparing the models, I definitely need it to handle cat 1 equipment on the 3PH, but nothing crazy like a 15' seed drill. My father has a farm (@ 40 miles away) and with the father in-law, between the two I can get just about anything I could use implement wise. But I do hate borrowing stuff, and having to plan for when it could be convienent to get stuff and return it, especially with the weather and my work hours.
Thanks again
