tractordk
New member
- Joined
- Aug 26, 2005
- Messages
- 17
- Location
- south eastern maine
- Tractor
- nothin yet, JD x585se for mowing, etc
Ok, the time has finally come to buy a tractor. I have been watching this site for a few years now and have asked a few questions here and there.
I currently do not have a tractor and desperately need one. I have about 350 total acres in eastern maine. Approximately 120 acres is hay field / pasture, the rest is ponds and woods. The land is relatively flat but does have some hills with moderate grades. Much of the land gets pretty soft for a good portion of the spring / summer.
We currently have someone hay the fields for us 1 time per summer. I don't have any intention of ever haying the fields myself. We do however have to maintain the fields, especially the perimeters with a bush hog.
I am interested in the following attachments immediately:
a moderately sized medium/heavy duty bush hog for field maintance
chipper for chipping 6 inch and smaller trees
FEL for moving dirt/rocks, etc
grapple for FEL for general pickup, digging up roots, etc
backhoe for planting trees, pulling stumps, digging drainage ditches, etc
Basically I need a general purpose tool to help me with everything around the yard from pullings stumps, maintaing roads and fields, etc.
I am tentatively looking at a JD 4720, 110 TLB or a 5025 series. The only tractor dealer that is relatively local (an hour drive) is JD.
I love the idea of having a cab, but don't need it.
I had a 110 TLB on our property for a couple weeks 2 years ago and loved the machine, it just seemed a bit small for working in the fields. It also seemed to get stuck more often than I would like. I have a HD pickup with a large winch so I can pull things out easily, but its a pain to have to do often.
I just rented a 4720 with FEL and 5' heavy duty bush hog for 2 days. I thought the machine was nice but seemed a bit "light duty" We moved some rocks and heavy clay with the FEL and the FEL seemed to flex an awful lot. Also with a load of clay the FEL's hydraulic strength seemed inadequate - i was unable to do 2 functions at once. I was also suprised it wasnt more powerful. It couldn't maintain speed in the C range when going up hills from one work site to another - even on paved road caring only the bush hog and empty loader. I have pretty much ruled out the 4720, it just seems like its not designed for the heavy duty work i have in mind.
My biggest concern is HP and transmissions. I love the hydro transmission, but it seems the only machine that is beafy enough to do the loader work i want to do that has hydro is the TLB. Unfortunately the TLB seems pretty small for field work. So I really don't know what to do.
Any thoughts/advice/etc would be very very much appreciated. Please feel free to ask questions if i can do anything to clarify my needs / terrain.
Thanks so much in advance,
Ben
I currently do not have a tractor and desperately need one. I have about 350 total acres in eastern maine. Approximately 120 acres is hay field / pasture, the rest is ponds and woods. The land is relatively flat but does have some hills with moderate grades. Much of the land gets pretty soft for a good portion of the spring / summer.
We currently have someone hay the fields for us 1 time per summer. I don't have any intention of ever haying the fields myself. We do however have to maintain the fields, especially the perimeters with a bush hog.
I am interested in the following attachments immediately:
a moderately sized medium/heavy duty bush hog for field maintance
chipper for chipping 6 inch and smaller trees
FEL for moving dirt/rocks, etc
grapple for FEL for general pickup, digging up roots, etc
backhoe for planting trees, pulling stumps, digging drainage ditches, etc
Basically I need a general purpose tool to help me with everything around the yard from pullings stumps, maintaing roads and fields, etc.
I am tentatively looking at a JD 4720, 110 TLB or a 5025 series. The only tractor dealer that is relatively local (an hour drive) is JD.
I love the idea of having a cab, but don't need it.
I had a 110 TLB on our property for a couple weeks 2 years ago and loved the machine, it just seemed a bit small for working in the fields. It also seemed to get stuck more often than I would like. I have a HD pickup with a large winch so I can pull things out easily, but its a pain to have to do often.
I just rented a 4720 with FEL and 5' heavy duty bush hog for 2 days. I thought the machine was nice but seemed a bit "light duty" We moved some rocks and heavy clay with the FEL and the FEL seemed to flex an awful lot. Also with a load of clay the FEL's hydraulic strength seemed inadequate - i was unable to do 2 functions at once. I was also suprised it wasnt more powerful. It couldn't maintain speed in the C range when going up hills from one work site to another - even on paved road caring only the bush hog and empty loader. I have pretty much ruled out the 4720, it just seems like its not designed for the heavy duty work i have in mind.
My biggest concern is HP and transmissions. I love the hydro transmission, but it seems the only machine that is beafy enough to do the loader work i want to do that has hydro is the TLB. Unfortunately the TLB seems pretty small for field work. So I really don't know what to do.
Any thoughts/advice/etc would be very very much appreciated. Please feel free to ask questions if i can do anything to clarify my needs / terrain.
Thanks so much in advance,
Ben