ajd187
Silver Member
Three years ago, when I moved to my house with 3 acres and a big driveway, my wife and I bought a Deere X320. See thread here:
http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/john-deere-lawn-garden/171486-best-deere-my-2-acre.html
We also bought a 30" Troy Bilt snow blower from Lowe's to do the driveway.
Well fast forward to now. I have the following issues with the equipment:
My initial instinct was to go for a ZTR with a bigger deck, and get a plow contract for the snow (with the blower for backup when the plow guy doesn't show). But, lately I have been looking at sub compact tractors instead.
I'm looking at two classes of tractor: the Deere X7xx series, and the Deere 1 series/Kubota BX/Mahindra/Kioti equivilants. Probably with at least a 54" deck, and maybe a blade also.
Is this overkill, or does it sound about right for the job?
Also, any insights on the import tractors (Mahindra and Kioti) in terms of cost/features set vs Deere? For full disclosure, I have dealers for all of these brands within 30 minutes of my house (Kubota and Deere are the closest, the Kubota guy is so close I could drive to my house haha).
http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/john-deere-lawn-garden/171486-best-deere-my-2-acre.html
We also bought a 30" Troy Bilt snow blower from Lowe's to do the driveway.
Well fast forward to now. I have the following issues with the equipment:
- The X320 does the job, but man does it take a long time. I'm at ~2 hours to cut the lawn. We now have a 1 year old in the house and I would rather spend time with her than cut grass.
- The snow blower is atrociously slow. It is frustrating to work with and does not do well in deep snow. Takes a good amount of time; see previous comment about the little girl.
My initial instinct was to go for a ZTR with a bigger deck, and get a plow contract for the snow (with the blower for backup when the plow guy doesn't show). But, lately I have been looking at sub compact tractors instead.
I'm looking at two classes of tractor: the Deere X7xx series, and the Deere 1 series/Kubota BX/Mahindra/Kioti equivilants. Probably with at least a 54" deck, and maybe a blade also.
Is this overkill, or does it sound about right for the job?
Also, any insights on the import tractors (Mahindra and Kioti) in terms of cost/features set vs Deere? For full disclosure, I have dealers for all of these brands within 30 minutes of my house (Kubota and Deere are the closest, the Kubota guy is so close I could drive to my house haha).