fantastic tractor for hay work, heavy enough chassis to handle the equipment in hills and a good hp match. That is unless you are going to be looking at rotary disc windrower then you will want atleast another 15hp but for balers, sickle windrowers, etc great match. I don't know that I would want to attempt packing 2 large bales with a grapple on a 2wd machine but if you use the loader reasonably they still worked pretty good.