Ok, my thoughts are time based.
If you are purchasing now. the "lawn" is the first thing you need to address. You could spend 20 or so hours using your push mower to do the 6 acres... Ok ok maybe that's a little optomistic on the time.
A Grass Finnish mower is your first purchase. Zero turn seems to be the best solution for you as you will still need a tractor for the rest of your land, but a Zero turn will be far quicker at the specialized finnish mowing if you have to go arround 10-12 trees per acre. Take a look around there are lots of them around from standing (roll along) to seated ones with ROPs.
I have 1.5 acres of finnish mowing and with my rider Garden tractor 58" cut it's still about 2 hrs of cutting due to trees. For me a Zero turn would cut it in 1/2! So you may still be looking at 3-4 hrs of finnish mowing if you get a 60" mower. So I'd think about something larger than that.
Now that you have the finnish mowing taken care of, you can look for a tractor and Implements. 30-45 hp might work, but will depend on what you intend for use of the acreage. Are you going to cut, dry and bail? Convert to growing crops? Maintain animals? You really need to think this through as you can get away with far less HP if you aren't growing crops, Hay or other crops will require your tractor to run other attachments and pull equipment. Here is where weight and HP really make life easier and make quick work of chores. So you really need to spend time in the purchasing, attachments and some post in the "Projects" section will give you a great idea of what you need.
Cheers and if you need help spending $$, the TBN posters will be more than happy to accept your donations to their wallets.
If you are purchasing now. the "lawn" is the first thing you need to address. You could spend 20 or so hours using your push mower to do the 6 acres... Ok ok maybe that's a little optomistic on the time.
A Grass Finnish mower is your first purchase. Zero turn seems to be the best solution for you as you will still need a tractor for the rest of your land, but a Zero turn will be far quicker at the specialized finnish mowing if you have to go arround 10-12 trees per acre. Take a look around there are lots of them around from standing (roll along) to seated ones with ROPs.
I have 1.5 acres of finnish mowing and with my rider Garden tractor 58" cut it's still about 2 hrs of cutting due to trees. For me a Zero turn would cut it in 1/2! So you may still be looking at 3-4 hrs of finnish mowing if you get a 60" mower. So I'd think about something larger than that.
Now that you have the finnish mowing taken care of, you can look for a tractor and Implements. 30-45 hp might work, but will depend on what you intend for use of the acreage. Are you going to cut, dry and bail? Convert to growing crops? Maintain animals? You really need to think this through as you can get away with far less HP if you aren't growing crops, Hay or other crops will require your tractor to run other attachments and pull equipment. Here is where weight and HP really make life easier and make quick work of chores. So you really need to spend time in the purchasing, attachments and some post in the "Projects" section will give you a great idea of what you need.
Cheers and if you need help spending $$, the TBN posters will be more than happy to accept your donations to their wallets.
but I can on your driveway maintenance.
