Shortl Ne
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Probably done to death, but let's go again. I've been reading for days, near pulling trigger. Still torn. Have a Craftsman T3300 currently, to get us by for now-moving from the suburbs of Oklahoma City, where we had 0.22 acres, most of which was house, to Rural Alabama near Birmingham, where we now have 10 pasture acres.
Wife and son have horses, so we bought land with only pasture, trees ring us, and a few growing in the yard. The rest is all grass. It is sloped, with terraces from previous farming. Segmented into one large 5 acre pasture, two 2 +\- acre pastures, and yard around house, and barn areas make up the rest
Paid to get it cut down initially, had been vacant for over a year and was overgrown. It's now cut back, and our neighbor is taking care of the big 5 acres in exchange for letting him turn out his horses. I just mowed the rest again, without new little Craftsman T3300. As you can imagine, that wasn't much fun, but we got it done.
So we need a bigger tractor, I do t want to rely on neighbors much, and Wes have some work to do, moving old RR ties the previous owner used to make an "arena", some gravel work on the road and driveway, of course, mowing, and optimally, spraying the pastures, and eventually spreading manure and fire ant bait.
In my limited knowledge, which has been vastly improved thanks to you all, I've narrowed it down to the John deer 3025E And the Kubota L2501, both HST, with a finish mower on the back, and bucket on the front. Only other MUST have right now, is forks for the bucket to move those **** ties, and other General lifting/moving work.
Both are similarly priced. Bucket/brush hog equipped was around $16,900 for Kubota, and around $17,900 for the John Deer. Sure, I would love bigger, but price is a huge concern-this move already cost us a ton, and I simply can't spend more than around $20k with implements, and I like the no emissions stuff of the 25 HP models.
So-pros/cons for the orange one, or the green one? (And yes I looked at Kioti, Mahindra, etc, but the orange and green dealers are only 6 miles away-I like that. The others, are quite a ways from me. So I will of course listen to other suggestions, but really want a local convenient dealer and service. Thanks in advance!
Wife and son have horses, so we bought land with only pasture, trees ring us, and a few growing in the yard. The rest is all grass. It is sloped, with terraces from previous farming. Segmented into one large 5 acre pasture, two 2 +\- acre pastures, and yard around house, and barn areas make up the rest
Paid to get it cut down initially, had been vacant for over a year and was overgrown. It's now cut back, and our neighbor is taking care of the big 5 acres in exchange for letting him turn out his horses. I just mowed the rest again, without new little Craftsman T3300. As you can imagine, that wasn't much fun, but we got it done.
So we need a bigger tractor, I do t want to rely on neighbors much, and Wes have some work to do, moving old RR ties the previous owner used to make an "arena", some gravel work on the road and driveway, of course, mowing, and optimally, spraying the pastures, and eventually spreading manure and fire ant bait.
In my limited knowledge, which has been vastly improved thanks to you all, I've narrowed it down to the John deer 3025E And the Kubota L2501, both HST, with a finish mower on the back, and bucket on the front. Only other MUST have right now, is forks for the bucket to move those **** ties, and other General lifting/moving work.
Both are similarly priced. Bucket/brush hog equipped was around $16,900 for Kubota, and around $17,900 for the John Deer. Sure, I would love bigger, but price is a huge concern-this move already cost us a ton, and I simply can't spend more than around $20k with implements, and I like the no emissions stuff of the 25 HP models.
So-pros/cons for the orange one, or the green one? (And yes I looked at Kioti, Mahindra, etc, but the orange and green dealers are only 6 miles away-I like that. The others, are quite a ways from me. So I will of course listen to other suggestions, but really want a local convenient dealer and service. Thanks in advance!
