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EddieWalker · 02-21-2008, 07:31 AM

Welcome to TBN!! For a first post, it's a good one.

Most tractors have ajustable wheels that you can make wider. When talking to your dealer, find out which tractors has the ability to go the widest on your wheel settings. I've seen the four big names doing some pretty extreme cutting along our highways and right of ways, so I know they are all capable of what you have. Deere, Kubota, Massey and New Holland. The other brands should be able to do it too, but those are the ones I've seen personally.

What are your other objectives with a tractor? Loader? Fence posts? Grading? If it's strictly mowing a few times a year, I might consider one of the pull behind mowers for ATV's. You already know your fourwheeler can handle the slope, so it wouldn't be that big a deal to put it to work pulling a mower. Swisher or DR both make them, though I don't know if one is better then the other. I've thought about getting one, or making something similar for mowing around the edge of my lake due to the steepness and wet conditions.

Eddie

02-21-2008, 07:31 AM	#2 (permalink)
EddieWalker Super Member Join Date: May 2003 Location: Tyler, Texas Posts: 7,971	Re: Help selecting a tractor for steep brush clearing. Welcome to TBN!! For a first post, it's a good one. Most tractors have ajustable wheels that you can make wider. When talking to your dealer, find out which tractors has the ability to go the widest on your wheel settings. I've seen the four big names doing some pretty extreme cutting along our highways and right of ways, so I know they are all capable of what you have. Deere, Kubota, Massey and New Holland. The other brands should be able to do it too, but those are the ones I've seen personally. What are your other objectives with a tractor? Loader? Fence posts? Grading? If it's strictly mowing a few times a year, I might consider one of the pull behind mowers for ATV's. You already know your fourwheeler can handle the slope, so it wouldn't be that big a deal to put it to work pulling a mower. Swisher or DR both make them, though I don't know if one is better then the other. I've thought about getting one, or making something similar for mowing around the edge of my lake due to the steepness and wet conditions. Eddie __________________ My Goals for 2008 1. Fishing and Hunting with my kids. 2. Build my storage Shed. 3. Put my outside access bathroom together. 4. Fence in a quarter acre for Turkeys. 5. Build my gazebo for my front pasture. 6. Finish back pasture and plant it in Bermuda. 7. Start my food plots. 8. Build a comfortable deer stand for two. 9. Build a wood burning fireplace in my home. 10. New flooring in my home. 11. Build a pasture sprayer. 12. Get my old jeep running.