Vas
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I'm looking for tractor recommendations for use on 29 acres at 9,000 ft in Northern New Mexico. The extent of my knowledge is from reading TBN for a couple months and reading part of Muhammed's book. I mention the altitude as I've read another thread discussing 3% loss of hp per 1000ft, and 1% loss w/ turbo.
At the risk of providing too much information here are the particulars. The property is steep and fairly rocky, 20 acres are overgrown mixed conifer forest with some aspens thrown in, 9 acres are meadows. The access roads are steep and rocky (see picture). I'm looking for a tractor for small road making and road maintaining tasks like smoothing, cutting, grading, and plowing. I've been doing a lot of thinning and would like a tractor to help skidding, moving, and lifting logs. During mud season or heavy snows I would see using it (while pulling a trailer) for transport into the property. The roads are steep and rough enough I would also like to use the tractor for moving myself and equipment around the property. Lastly, I'm thinking eventually I would do dirt work associated with building a home (I'm not sure if the amount of dirt work will justify a BH). A lot of folks here need to do mowing or brush cutting, I don't need to mow or brush cut.
This is a 2nd property that I will mainly be working on during the weekends and eventually building a home, my current home is 3hrs drive away. I currently have a 40' storage unit for storing equipment. Anything I buy would ideally fit in the 8'x8' door. There are so many big trees I'm initially thinking of building a home-built log cabin. Currently I access the upper meadows in my small nissan pick-up. Every time I do it to haul up equipment for camping and thinning the forest I realize it is too rough and steep (see attachment) to continually drive up and I need to do something better. My current thinking is building a garage at the bottom and ideally using the same tractor to access the upper meadows pulling up an equipment trailer. At this point the property is a hobby, so I'm enjoying doing a lot of the work myself. That being said as I look to buy a tractor if I'm thinking I will do things where I should really be hiring a professional people's advice would be appreciated. Thank you in advance,
At the risk of providing too much information here are the particulars. The property is steep and fairly rocky, 20 acres are overgrown mixed conifer forest with some aspens thrown in, 9 acres are meadows. The access roads are steep and rocky (see picture). I'm looking for a tractor for small road making and road maintaining tasks like smoothing, cutting, grading, and plowing. I've been doing a lot of thinning and would like a tractor to help skidding, moving, and lifting logs. During mud season or heavy snows I would see using it (while pulling a trailer) for transport into the property. The roads are steep and rough enough I would also like to use the tractor for moving myself and equipment around the property. Lastly, I'm thinking eventually I would do dirt work associated with building a home (I'm not sure if the amount of dirt work will justify a BH). A lot of folks here need to do mowing or brush cutting, I don't need to mow or brush cut.
This is a 2nd property that I will mainly be working on during the weekends and eventually building a home, my current home is 3hrs drive away. I currently have a 40' storage unit for storing equipment. Anything I buy would ideally fit in the 8'x8' door. There are so many big trees I'm initially thinking of building a home-built log cabin. Currently I access the upper meadows in my small nissan pick-up. Every time I do it to haul up equipment for camping and thinning the forest I realize it is too rough and steep (see attachment) to continually drive up and I need to do something better. My current thinking is building a garage at the bottom and ideally using the same tractor to access the upper meadows pulling up an equipment trailer. At this point the property is a hobby, so I'm enjoying doing a lot of the work myself. That being said as I look to buy a tractor if I'm thinking I will do things where I should really be hiring a professional people's advice would be appreciated. Thank you in advance,