TC24D

[SacandagaBrad]

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There's a lot they can't do. They can't scoop up 3 yds of material in one pass, they can't mow an 11 foot swath down the fairway, they can't pick my 1500 lb dock straight up out of the mud, etc. You get the picture, its a 24 hp tractor.

But it continues to amaze me what it can do. It can scoop up more material than I can shovel in 10 minutes and move it effortlessly. It can mow a 5 foot swath through heavy grass. It can turn on a dime. Float over the softest lawn with little to no damage. Blow a tractor-width swath through 2 feet of snow with no problem. Spread a tri-ax load of item 4 in no time. Grade and maintain a gravel road 500 feet long. Lift everything from portable basketball hoops to kitchen appliances. Pull (not lift) my docks in for the winter. Move trailers and launch boats. And fit in my shed with the folding ROPS, assuming I remember to fold it /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif.

I've had mine a little over a year and have never regretted the purchase. I told my neighbor the day it was delivered - "we're not lifting anything, anymore!" As others have said here, its a lot of power in a small package. And very comfortable and easy to operate, especially mowing.

Brad

 

[Trouser Bark]

Quick update.

I've had this TC24D now for a few years and a few hundred hours of use around the house. I live on a mountainside and get somewhere around 6+months of snow (it's snowing right now) so have gotten really good with the blower. If you need a blower... buy one to mount on the 3pt hitch so you can keep use of your FEL.

Turn the rear wheels around for a little more width. You'll get almost none but every little bit helps in a machine with such a high COG.

Fill the rear tires. She's way too light.

Grab a set of forks to mount on the bucket. Makes this little tractor so much more versatile around the house.

Chains. If you've got snow buy diamond pattern chains and try to forget how you spent too much money on them. Their grip is outstanding and there's no slipping on inclines, sidehills, etc.

Stuff a couple of extra lights on it. Once you get to working there's no reason to stop just because the sun goes down and for $100 you can get plenty of work light on it. No need for spendy lights that light things up for a long way. You only need light right around the tractor.

Stay on your maintanance. This little tractor will last a long long time so maintaining it like you do the family beater may not be your best option.

I've also picked up a Bear Cat chipper for the 3pt. Works really well but I was disappointed with the bolt on drive shaft and the way you had to spend too much time getting the shaft on in the first place. A slip on design would have been 100x better and cost Bear Cat an extra $10. Pretty sad.

Xlnt piece of equipment and one that has kept me out of the chiropractor's office on more than one occasion. Glad I bought it.

One last comment that some safety-crats may scoff at:

Use the seat belt or don't use it... but know why you've made that choice, first. I've got a lot of compound grades on my property and although I haven't gone over yet I probably will one of these days and the chance to jump off (for me) is more attractive than being pinned between a tractor and a tree once that day comes.

As a final note... thanks to all that helped me make a choice. The info on this site was just what I as a green pea needed.

 

[ohdeerfarmer]

Have owned my NH TC24DA for 5 years now (purchased it new in June 2005 for my birthday/fathers day gift!) and so far it has done everything I want to do on my little 10 acre property in SW Ohio....I don't "finish mow" with it, I have a JD "lawn tractor" for that task! The "boomer" pushes snow in the winter, cleans horse stalls and barns, moves gravel and mulch in the summer, tills and plants food plots and gardens in the spring/summer and bush hogs ALL day long at our 1300 acre hunt lease in the hills around Chillicothe, Ohio. It's been a dandy little tractor and knock on wood.....no problems to date except a minor hyd fluid leak!

A friend of mine has the exact same tractor (except turf tires on his) and uses it everyday at his horse stable operation, since his gets daily use it has many more hours than mine. Around 350 hrs his developed a hydraulic oil leak and the tractor had to be split in half by the NH dealer to repait it.....the repair cost him about $2000 or $2500 and the dealer had the tractor for nearly a month to repair it?!?! Mine has a similar leak at 150 hrs but still functions without any issues and I don't know if this is a common problem with ALL New Holland TC24DA's or not....my dealer said the leak on my friends was common to the TC24DA model and that it may or may not require a gasket replacement again in the future?!?!

Regards,

Jeff