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Newbie with a few q\'s
First off,I've been stealth visiting for a while(ever since we decided to look for a place in the country). I frequent a few other net message boards(hot rod stuff etc) & I am pleased to say that this site is great. Not only for the amount of knowledge & advice given in a kind non-condescending manner,but also for the way everyone is just genuinely friendly & always willing to help. So my first question is this,what size tractor do you guys think i should get ? We'll have a little over 2 acres. As is, once we move in there is tons of work to be done. First thing will be to bring in dirt en masse. The house & driveway are built up roughly 2 ft above the rest of the place. I want to even it all out. There is also a huge piling of dirt, trees, crap etc that I need to get out of there. I want to move all the trees out of it & further from the house into a burn pile, and then spread out all the dirt that is in that pile. I'll also be doing alot of the same for a few neighbors who have recently moved into the neighborhood. Plus right now we all have crushed rock and dirt driveways, so they'll need to be tended to. I know I want 4wd, an FEL, a finish mower, a box blade & back blade, a rototiller, and a roller drum.Looks like I'll be one of the very few with a tractor in the neighborhood.Most are getting by with riding mowers & sears type garden tractors (ie limited attatcment capability). So I'm pretty sure I'm gonna gain a lot of new friends real quick like. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif I have a riding mower for what will one day be our yard so the finish mower will be used on the stuff further out from the house plus some of the neighbors adjoining land. Right now there are very few trees ( a few oaks) & walking the land all the big stumps are gone,there's just a handful of small (10 " diameter pine stumps). Basically I'm looking for a tractor strong enough to handle the intial workload but not so big as to be cumbersome later.So far I went and looked at some blue tractors & some orange ones /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif (amazed that a newbie poster is hip to the "code"?). There also seems to be an ample supply of used tractors for sale by owner around here(this area is called the ArkLaTex due to being in the far norhtwest corner of La bordering Tx & Ark but you probably figured that out).Ok,educate this plowboy wannabe!!! /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif BTW,wife just chimed in with PRICE IS AN OBJECT!!! Dang it!! I was hoping to sneak home with a Versatile 750 !!
First off,I've been stealth visiting for a while(ever since we decided to look for a place in the country). I frequent a few other net message boards(hot rod stuff etc) & I am pleased to say that this site is great. Not only for the amount of knowledge & advice given in a kind non-condescending manner,but also for the way everyone is just genuinely friendly & always willing to help. So my first question is this,what size tractor do you guys think i should get ? We'll have a little over 2 acres. As is, once we move in there is tons of work to be done. First thing will be to bring in dirt en masse. The house & driveway are built up roughly 2 ft above the rest of the place. I want to even it all out. There is also a huge piling of dirt, trees, crap etc that I need to get out of there. I want to move all the trees out of it & further from the house into a burn pile, and then spread out all the dirt that is in that pile. I'll also be doing alot of the same for a few neighbors who have recently moved into the neighborhood. Plus right now we all have crushed rock and dirt driveways, so they'll need to be tended to. I know I want 4wd, an FEL, a finish mower, a box blade & back blade, a rototiller, and a roller drum.Looks like I'll be one of the very few with a tractor in the neighborhood.Most are getting by with riding mowers & sears type garden tractors (ie limited attatcment capability). So I'm pretty sure I'm gonna gain a lot of new friends real quick like. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif I have a riding mower for what will one day be our yard so the finish mower will be used on the stuff further out from the house plus some of the neighbors adjoining land. Right now there are very few trees ( a few oaks) & walking the land all the big stumps are gone,there's just a handful of small (10 " diameter pine stumps). Basically I'm looking for a tractor strong enough to handle the intial workload but not so big as to be cumbersome later.So far I went and looked at some blue tractors & some orange ones /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif (amazed that a newbie poster is hip to the "code"?). There also seems to be an ample supply of used tractors for sale by owner around here(this area is called the ArkLaTex due to being in the far norhtwest corner of La bordering Tx & Ark but you probably figured that out).Ok,educate this plowboy wannabe!!! /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif BTW,wife just chimed in with PRICE IS AN OBJECT!!! Dang it!! I was hoping to sneak home with a Versatile 750 !!