gswallow
New member
I just joined last week, but I've been checking out the forums since I bought my Max 25 in January. I got it with a FEL and backhoe and also a snow blower and snow plow. The main reason I got the tractor was snow removal. I've been using my Craftsman DYS4500 yard tractor (aka riding lawn mower) with a 42" snow blower for 5 seasons now. I look after some houses here on the coast of Maine in the winter, some occupied, some just summer homes, and used the Craftsman to move snow at these places along with my house. Between Christmas and New Year we had a particularly nasty storm with 8 inches of heavy wet snow, a change over to rain, then another 8 inches of snow. The blower moved the snow but even with a weight box, wheel weights and chains I kept getting stuck. On the slightest side slope the rear end would slide sideways and I'd have to get off, muscle it back into the track and go another 10 feet and repeat. When I came inside I said to my wife "I need a real tractor." She said, "I watched you out there. I think your right." Years ago I had done some work on small farms in upstate New York and had used tractors there, all old Internationals, an A, B, Super C and an H. My neighbor has a Kubota, a friend has a Kioti and there is a John Deere dealer in town. That was my extent of tractor knowledge, so I got on the internet and started researching. I was leaning towards a Deere or Kubota because I new there were dealers fairly close by. Then I remembered seeing ads for Mahindra on TV. I read the specs on the new Max series and was impressed. I went to their web site and found there was a dealer about 30 miles away. On January 2nd we went up there and ended up buying the Max 25 that day. I'll try to attach some pictures, I made some clamp on bucket forks today and took a few shots.
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