Muggs
New member
My tractor experience is limited to many hours on my late father-in-law's 1960 MF-35 before it got sick, and one year with my son-in-law's 110 JD backhoe (before he sold it).
I want a tractor for moving round bales, bushhogging fence rows, and (w/tooth bucket) clearing brush and felled trees, some occasional manure and sediment clearing around the barn, and digging graves for the occasional dead cow.
I loved the hydrostatic trans. on the backhoe, and hated the standard trans on the MF (clutching kills my bad back). My research to date suggests that I can't seem to find a hydrostatic on a full-sized tractor so I am looking at the compacts.
Can a compact loader handle 1200' hay bales, and would it be as "tippy" as the backhoe is when bushhogging on slopes? I felt the wheels coming up with just a modest cross-grade movement.
Thanks in advance, my first posting, great web-site!
I want a tractor for moving round bales, bushhogging fence rows, and (w/tooth bucket) clearing brush and felled trees, some occasional manure and sediment clearing around the barn, and digging graves for the occasional dead cow.
I loved the hydrostatic trans. on the backhoe, and hated the standard trans on the MF (clutching kills my bad back). My research to date suggests that I can't seem to find a hydrostatic on a full-sized tractor so I am looking at the compacts.
Can a compact loader handle 1200' hay bales, and would it be as "tippy" as the backhoe is when bushhogging on slopes? I felt the wheels coming up with just a modest cross-grade movement.
Thanks in advance, my first posting, great web-site!