Gary Fowler
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- Joined
- Jun 23, 2008
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- 11,998
- Location
- Bismarck Arkansas
- Tractor
- 2009 Kubota RTV 900, 2009 Kubota B26 TLB & 2010 model LS P7010
In reply to local motions statement about having 4 tractors for 42 acres, that is what happens when you dont buy what you want or need in the first place. The first tractor my brother in law bought was a 750 JD with turf tires and 2 wd. It would pull a 4 foot BH but get stuck on a wet lettuce leaf. 48" at a time took forever to get across the 42 acres with a mower and much of it has wet spring feed areas that were inaccessible. to this tractor. Then I bought a used Yanmar 4220 4 wd with FEL which had plenty of power for a 6 foot BH but my BIL was still stuck with the 750. He muddled around with it for over a year and then bought a brand new New Holland T2030 with 4WD, FEL and Cab which is what he should have bought in the first place. So he now has 2 tractors. My old Yanmar operater station is so cramped that I can barely get on and off and I am always hanging up on knobs or levers and it gets awful hot on it without a canopy even. It also doesnt have an ROPS on it which we really need in the area of hills and ditches we have. So a couple years went by and after the wife asked me why I dont get a cab tractor for myself, who could argue with that.
So I went looking for a CAB tractor for myself that was big enough to do anything that might come up which is where the forth tractor came to be. Rather than sell the other ones for half of what we paid for them, we still use them occassionally. My BIL usually leaves the post hole digger on the 750 and it pretty much sets under the shed till we want to put in a new corner post or plant a tree or such task. He uses his NH to mow and move hay for his cows. I still use the Yannie when I need a small job or to get under low hanging trees to mow. It wont start at all in cold weather since it has no glow plugs so any winter work gets done with the NEW LS with Cab.
As for not needing telescoping lift arms, whoever said that you can do it easily by yourself is a better person than me. I dont have a good back so I cant lug and pull on equipment very much, so telescopic is the only way to go if you are working alone hooking up heavy equipment. Even a 800# bush hog is too much to man handle and while you can do it, when bother with getting on and off the tractor half a dozen times trying to get just right with the angle and distance to get one lift arm on and not the other and have to struggle and pry. Just get a tractor with telescoping lift arms and be done with it. IF the tractor is a SCUT, I could understand as you arent going to have anything hooked to it that weighs more that a couple hundred pounds, but you dont have to get into 100 HP to have an implement that weighs more than you can move. My 7 foot BH weighs close to #1500 and you arent going to move that with a pry bar.
ANYWAY, that is the explanation for how we have 4 tractors. One would work more than 42 acres on its own now, but I am not a borrower and neither is my BIL. We like to have our own stuff to play with and if we break it, we may help each other fix it, but we seldom borrow, so we stay good buddies that way. We do have a shared piece or two of equipment like the 2 row cultivator that gets used once a year to row up the garden and I have an 8 foot disc that he can use if he wants to disc up, but we both have our own equipment for every other task which is how it should be if you want to stay friends especially if you are relatives.
So I went looking for a CAB tractor for myself that was big enough to do anything that might come up which is where the forth tractor came to be. Rather than sell the other ones for half of what we paid for them, we still use them occassionally. My BIL usually leaves the post hole digger on the 750 and it pretty much sets under the shed till we want to put in a new corner post or plant a tree or such task. He uses his NH to mow and move hay for his cows. I still use the Yannie when I need a small job or to get under low hanging trees to mow. It wont start at all in cold weather since it has no glow plugs so any winter work gets done with the NEW LS with Cab.
As for not needing telescoping lift arms, whoever said that you can do it easily by yourself is a better person than me. I dont have a good back so I cant lug and pull on equipment very much, so telescopic is the only way to go if you are working alone hooking up heavy equipment. Even a 800# bush hog is too much to man handle and while you can do it, when bother with getting on and off the tractor half a dozen times trying to get just right with the angle and distance to get one lift arm on and not the other and have to struggle and pry. Just get a tractor with telescoping lift arms and be done with it. IF the tractor is a SCUT, I could understand as you arent going to have anything hooked to it that weighs more that a couple hundred pounds, but you dont have to get into 100 HP to have an implement that weighs more than you can move. My 7 foot BH weighs close to #1500 and you arent going to move that with a pry bar.
ANYWAY, that is the explanation for how we have 4 tractors. One would work more than 42 acres on its own now, but I am not a borrower and neither is my BIL. We like to have our own stuff to play with and if we break it, we may help each other fix it, but we seldom borrow, so we stay good buddies that way. We do have a shared piece or two of equipment like the 2 row cultivator that gets used once a year to row up the garden and I have an 8 foot disc that he can use if he wants to disc up, but we both have our own equipment for every other task which is how it should be if you want to stay friends especially if you are relatives.
