well, I own about 740 acres. It used to be my grandparents farm and after they passed away in 2004, it was left to myself and two of my cousins. I live on the property and do all the upkeep and maintinance on it. there are 500 acres that I live on/around and then about 2 miles away we have a 200 acre tract and a 40 acre tract. I would estimate that about 600 or so acres are all hardwoods and planted pines(long leaf and short leaf). I have a 27hp JD 950 that we have always had to maintain this place with(bush hogging, cutting firebreaks, etc) and it's just overmatched really. Need to get something about twice as big. thing is, I can't go TOO big because it won't fit in the shed(8 x 9), unless I want to build a new tractor shed, which I don't. I could probably be ok with a 60hp, with a 6' bush hog and deffinatley a FEL. or I've been debating buying a new tractor, bush hog, and disk and maybe trying to find an older tractor with a FEL or even a small CUT with a FEL. probably just going to buy one tractor and set it up to handle everything though. haven't made up my mind if I want tog et 4wd or not because we really don't have any muddy land, it's very flat and mostly sandy stuff and I haven't been stuck with my current 2wd tractor but once and that was my mistake not the tractors fault. although, this tractor has its limits of what I can do, so when I get my new tractor with FEL I may wish I had gotten 4wd. I dunno, still trying to figure everything out, so far I'm back and forth with a million options running through my head while I save up my $$$. maybe I should sell off some land??haha