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[KenB2920]

Looks like it did a fine job.:thumbsup:

The finished job came out well. It just took alot longer than most other jobs. I also worked the machine pretty good as well.

 

[xring100]

Seriously debating a bigger tractor after this. This is the first time I can say I may of needed more power.

Hi Ken,
Looks good. I'm sure the nice people at Rosy Brothers would gladly sell you a new M9960

 

[xring100]

I had to hit low gear on turtle (low/low) if that makes sense. I always start out in medium/low if its flat ground to see how things go and adjust from there.

Was this due to power limitations or cut quality?

 

[KenB2920]

This is a good question. I don't know if more power would of helped chew up the weeds better therefore moving along faster. Or, if the weeds were just so thick they had no where to go.

 

[pmhowe]

Hi Ken,
Wow! It looks like you took on some serious weeds. Years ago, I lived in Maryland, and reclaimed some overgrown farm land that looked somewhat like yours. Mine was infested with multiflora rosebushes that were popular in the early nineteen hundreds for hedgerows and are now outlawed. I had an Allis Chalmers WD 45 and a Massey Harris 44-6. I also had a 5 foot mower. I tackled anything I could get the tractor over. However, it was slow going. Both tractors worked very hard, in low gear. With the Allis, particularly, I had to use the hand clutch, to allow the mower to chop things up. It had as least as much power as the Massey Harris, but first gear had a faster ground speed. I was very glad to go slowly, as there were lots of hidden obstacles: Trash, old car parts, old farm machinery parts, stumps, fence posts, woodchuck holes and rocks. Once the land was cleared, a few mowings each year was adequate to keep things clear. These follow-on mowings were no strain on either tractor. (One of the things I remember best is mowing in subsequent years each summer, and having a flock of swallows following me, eating the grasshoppers and other bugs that were stirred up.I felt like the Pied Piper.) I would think twice about upsizing your tractor. Just me. Best of luck.

 

[avc8130]

Dude in blue have some kind of death wish?
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Quite possibly. Gotta get the crank output into the drive somehow.

ac

 

[bullbreaker]

Bushhogged bout 5 acres. Mostly yesterday and cleaned up some this morning. It was close 100 degrees and humidity bout 85 %. Talk about "cowboying up" The little L3400 DT so called economy L model one tough little son of a gun.
Temperature gauge lifted up bout 2/5 of gauge always has run cool. Pulling a 172 Squealer 6'.

 

[Larro Darro]

Bushhogged bout 5 acres. Mostly yesterday and cleaned up some this morning. It was close 100 degrees and humidity bout 85 %. Talk about "cowboying up" The little L3400 DT so called economy L model one tough little son of a gun.
Temperature gauge lifted up bout 2/5 of gauge always has run cool. Pulling a 172 Squealer 6'.

I looked at the L3200 last year. The wife gave me the green light, and I almost bought one. But I really didn't need it, so I backed away. I ended up buying a used '13 Camry for about the same money, and I use it everyday. Now if I could find a deal on a used one, I would snap it up in a minute.

Larro

 

[SLHawkins]

Spent a couple hours spreading manure today...

 

[lostcreekranch]

Mowing, mowing, mowing. No pics, only mowing. Used the NH TL100, Kubota B2710, and JD Z829 A.

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