AK Migrator
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I am in the process of purchasing a 130 acres of mostly logged off low lands. There is a 20 acres of cypress swamp, not much relief in the terrain and the soils are not well trained, ie, they are only dry in the spring/summer/early fall. There is still a lot of deadfall, slash piles ready for burning. My intent is to turn this into a duck, deer, dove and fishing area. I will need a tractor to clean up the left over slash, blade out the rutts, mow the weeds, plowing to put in food plots and dig some ponds. I need to dig a 5 - 10 acre fishing pond as well. I imagine that I need to purchase an all around good tractor with right implements to do everything except the pond digging. I estimate I will need to hire a trackhoe or dozer to do this. In my initial research I think a 50 HP tractor with 4and1 bucket, backhoe, brush hog, box blade would get me through. However, another thought is I might need a tracked loader or dozer to knock out a lot of the major tasks for a year or two and then sell that off to get the more appropriate "farm" type tractor. Eventually I want to have some deer plots, seperatred by replanted forest and orchards.
Okay, give me you thoughts please. Do I buy new (John Deere and Kubota are in my local area with good service), buy used, buy a dozer, hire a guy to do the initial rough stuff and take on the cultivation my self?
Thanks guys,
Okay, give me you thoughts please. Do I buy new (John Deere and Kubota are in my local area with good service), buy used, buy a dozer, hire a guy to do the initial rough stuff and take on the cultivation my self?
Thanks guys,