Mahindra 4540

swampy6 · Oct 20, 2017

We bought the Mahindra 4540 about 14 months ago along with the backhoe, so far the only things it needed was a code update and one of the clamps needed tightening to stop a small antifreeze leak.

I've put in enough trails around the house for walking and the UTV but since getting the 4540 we've been removing the stumps and making them wider. A member of this site (gasifier) gave me some good tips on digging stumps since this is our first tractor.

We bought a plow for it with the third function kit which makes plowing our driveway much easier. We just added some 4000 pound pallet forks so some of our firewood will go on pallets. I'll try and find some pics of plowing last winter.

jmh1783 · Oct 21, 2017

Nice tractor. As a new tractor owner myself (15 months), I've also been learning how to use it properly. I continue to find new users for it all the time. I ended up getting a stump grinder to deal with stumps. My property has an abundance of old stumps from previous owners. Enjoy your tractor!

swampy6 · Oct 21, 2017

I like the job the 4540 does plowing compared with the truck, here are a few more pics of some plowing last year. The area coming through the pines is wider since we took more pine down.

It's my first experience with a tractor so hopefully it stays good. How's the 2555 HST treating you?

RollTide1974 · Oct 22, 2017

The 4540 4WD is what i’m leaning towards. Glad to see, it seems to be a work horse with little problems.

swampy6 · Oct 22, 2017

RollTide1974 said:
The 4540 4WD is what i’m leaning towards. Glad to see, it seems to be a work horse with little problems.

Yes, so far for us it's been a very good tractor. The worst part was waiting for the third function kit to come in but from what I was told (if I remember) it was new for this tractor and the company that makes it for Mahindra didn't have a sku number until a guy from the shop we bought the tractor from went down the ladder and talked to a guy on the floor, he gave them the sku number pronto. It was nice that we didn't have any big snowfalls until after the plow was put on.

I'm glad we paid the extra for the third function kit and the plow, it's nice to angle the plow left or right from the tractor seat when your headed through the woods to your wood stacks.

If you don't mind shifting, the 4540 with 4 wheel drive is a beast. I'll be getting out of my 50's soon and the shifting doesn't bother me.............yet.

swampy6 · Oct 22, 2017

RollTide1974 said:
The 4540 4WD is what i知 leaning towards. Glad to see, it seems to be a work horse with little problems.

Here's a few pictures digging out some stumps of some dead pine I took down with a chainsaw.

Gasifier · Oct 22, 2017

Nice work there swampy6! Looks good. Im hoping after working off and on for another 2-3 weeks on the trails I'll have 60-70% of them in nice decent shape. Hopefully the snow will hold off that long. Looks like it will. I'm hoping that after I get them all in decent shape, at least by the middle of next summer, I will really be able to start spending a lot more time enjoying them. Both on horseback, and I'm going to find an inexpensive, used four wheeler or side by side. Can't wait. Maybe if I can rent one of those 14-17 ton excavators with a hydraulic thumb when one gets freed up, I can have them all done before the snow flies! That would be great!

swampy6 · Oct 22, 2017

Gasifier said:
Nice work there swampy6! Looks good. Im hoping after working off and on for another 2-3 weeks on the trails I'll have 60-70% of them in nice decent shape. Hopefully the snow will hold off that long. Looks like it will. I'm hoping that after I get them all in decent shape, at least by the middle of next summer, I will really be able to start spending a lot more time enjoying them. Both on horseback, and I'm going to find an inexpensive, used four wheeler or side by side. Can't wait. Maybe if I can rent one of those 14-17 ton excavators with a hydraulic thumb when one gets freed up, I can have them all done before the snow flies! That would be great!

You'll like them once you get them the way you want them, I'm lucky that on the house lot we're mostly sand.

Navasot · Oct 23, 2017

Great model id highly recommend this over the other mid size models even in the Mahindra line... the 4550 is also a good choice with 8 more hp and a set of rear remotes standard

swampy6 · Oct 23, 2017

Navasot said:
Great model id highly recommend this over the other mid size models even in the Mahindra line... the 4550 is also a good choice with 8 more hp and a set of rear remotes standard

I can't remember the other model Mahindra we looked at but after talking with the guy who works on the Mahindra tractors at the dealer and another guy who works there but on chainsaws ( has a tractor) they both liked the 4540 out of all the Mahindra's on the lot so after a night of talking about it we bought it.

We have about three more trails that need widening before winter hits along with another area to be cleared of some small trees so I can drop the backhoe for the winter.

I use to take out the stumps to ground level with my old Stihl 075 or the 660 but with the backhoe it's much easier. :drink:

RollTide1974 · Oct 24, 2017

swampy6 said:
Here's a few pictures digging out some stumps of some dead pine I took down with a chainsaw.View attachment 525700 View attachment 525701 View attachment 525702

I don't mind changing the gears at all. It's very similar to my Father in laws tractor with where the gears are, and changing them out. Here in Alabama we don't get near the Winters you guys do in NY

I borrowed a 1538 4WD for a week, or so. It worked just fine, but it's a little to compact for me. Mine will mostly be used to bush hog my land, and I have some decent size hills. The 1538 was a little scary on some parts of it. I believe the 4540 would handle it well, and I will feel a whole lot safer on it.

swampy6 · Oct 25, 2017

We dropped two pines so the house would get more sun and the plowing in the winter would be easier. We used the pallet forks to load up the trailer and haul some branches to the town wood dump.

swampy6 · Oct 27, 2017

I cleaned the front axle and more then applied POR, the batteries are charging for the camera so no before pics. Next year before I put on the backhoe, I'll do the back axle.

Pic 0551 on top of the axle I had three small areas that rust started, in pic 0556 on both sides on the bottom there wasn't any rust. Just from traveling the road in the winter from exposure to salt, I would've thought that area might have had the most but I was wrong.

The tractor has just over 231 hours on it.

swampy6 · Nov 20, 2017

Since they put the inline restrictor in it, the temp on the 4540 is much better. Before the restrictor it just touched the green.

Just a few pics of todays work (not much) cleared some snow and then burned some branches.

swampy6 · Nov 29, 2017

Navasot said:
Great model id highly recommend this over the other mid size models even in the Mahindra line... the 4550 is also a good choice with 8 more hp and a set of rear remotes standard

I looked back on another site at the other tractor we looked at, it was the Mahindra 2540. I'm not sure how reliable the 2540 is but the 4540 has been trouble free except for putting a restrictor in to raise the temp and a code update early on, we're happy.

I might dig one more stump and then take the backhoe off next week, it looks like the Lake Effect could kick in the second week of December near our area.....if the winds bring it north.

mikeman1 · Nov 30, 2017

I am so looking forward to heading upstate for snowmobiling, i truly enjoy the adirondacks. I just like to putt around at 20 mph or so just enjoying the ride and scenery.

swampy6 · Nov 30, 2017

mikeman1 said:
I am so looking forward to heading upstate for snowmobiling, i truly enjoy the adirondacks. I just like to putt around at 20 mph or so just enjoying the ride and scenery.

The trail in our area is just down the road not even a quarter of a mile, we try and go out during the week since the weekends are like the Indy 500.

Gasifier · Dec 3, 2017

swampy6 said:
The trail in our area is just down the road not even a quarter of a mile, we try and go out during the week since the weekends are like the Indy 500.

Swampy. Looks like you might be able to do some swampy sled riding on the trails Tuesday afternoon. 50 and 100% chance of rain. They do race those on water. Right?

swampy6 · Dec 10, 2017

We finally took the backhoe off for the winter and then covered it up. In two different areas under the backhoe main platform we stack 4 x 4's 3 high and then 2 high under the boom and then lower it so it takes the pressure off the stabilizers and the dipper for the winter.

swampy6 · Jan 22, 2018

RollTide1974 said:
The 4540 4WD is what i知 leaning towards. Glad to see, it seems to be a work horse with little problems.

We have 345 hours on the 4540 without any problems, hopefully this continues. We're getting a price on a 28 x 36 detached garage so if we like the price the tractor will be inside before next winter maybe sooner.