FarmerShawn
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My wife and I just bought a 10 acre hobby farm that came with a small tractor (JD 655) with a PTO brush mower and snowblower, but no loader or tiller. The land is dead flat and completely cleared, with about 2 acres for the homestead and another acre for the dugout. The previous owners ran a u-pick operation, but I have different plans. I plan on reforesting about an acre, building a golf hole on another couple of acres, and running rental gardens on the remaining 4 acres. I also have to do some driveway work (about 100 feet), a pond for the wife, trenching for some new in-ground irrigation pipes, and general landscaping.
After doing a lot of reading and talking to a few people (local farmers and tractor salesmen), I'm pretty sure that I need a compact tractor with a loader, backhoe, tiller, and mower. I'll add other implements later. I've done lots of research and read countless threads here on TBN, but the one thing I can't seem to get a handle on is how much HP I need, especially for the tilling. I was hoping to use a 60" tiller and 72" mower, but I'm open to any and all suggestions. So far I've looked at JD, Kubota, Bobcat, Kioti and LS. Having never owned a tractor before, I have no brand loyalty, so again, I'm open to anything.
After doing a lot of reading and talking to a few people (local farmers and tractor salesmen), I'm pretty sure that I need a compact tractor with a loader, backhoe, tiller, and mower. I'll add other implements later. I've done lots of research and read countless threads here on TBN, but the one thing I can't seem to get a handle on is how much HP I need, especially for the tilling. I was hoping to use a 60" tiller and 72" mower, but I'm open to any and all suggestions. So far I've looked at JD, Kubota, Bobcat, Kioti and LS. Having never owned a tractor before, I have no brand loyalty, so again, I'm open to anything.