goeduck
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Pictures please. PLEASE, PLEASE! You have a nice collection going there. :thumbsup:
2 acres too small for a tractor?
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Pictures please. PLEASE, PLEASE! You have a nice collection going there. :thumbsup:
grnspot110
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YLee Kioti
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Nice pics only one missing is Eva Gabor in a mink stole. 
dadiehl
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Me and the wife have a JD 3320 with a loader. It has saved our backs in ways I cant explain in words. We have a Bad 3 acres.Not flat. Getting mulch delivered by the dump truck load and moving snow? I would Never not have a tractor/loader. its like a pick up truck. If you every own one you cant go without, we tried.
Every big snow neighbors toss us $$ to help them out. Some for free ... some for money.
Rakemania
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We live on just over three acres been here after house build nearly twelve months now just purchased a japanese import fully serviced new front end loader new tyres all round new clutch with warranty. I would be lost without it mate. Been doing the fire breaks the last few weeks as fire season kicks in just about now. Moved loads of old dead wood into bonfire piles doing some soil moving around now bit of landscaping to keep her happy and me off the shovel:laughing:
Nice work GC1710, it's amazing what even a small tractor can do.
Seamonster124, I'm in the same boat as you...tiny plot of land but half of it screams 'get a tractor!'. Besides, wheel barrows and sore backs aren't nearly as much fun as a workin' toy with a bucket on it.
Seamonster124, I'm in the same boat as you...tiny plot of land but half of it screams 'get a tractor!'. Besides, wheel barrows and sore backs aren't nearly as much fun as a workin' toy with a bucket on it.
I make dainty little precision spinning tops on a 12" swing 36" bed lathe. I mill tiny objects for my projects on my 2000+# Bridgeport mill. My car goes over 130 even though the fastest speed limit in my state is 65. I own a Kubota BX and I have .75 acres. Buy what you want...you only live once.
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goeduck
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GREAT LOOKING TRACTORS !!
repete
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Used tractors are an interesting purchase. I recommend everyone have one unless you live in an apartment. If you shop around and buy something a few years old at a reasonable price, i my experience this will happen:
Build a dry storage location for a tractor. You buy the tractor for say $15,000. You use it to work around you place while taking good care of it. Once you finish your projects, you put it back on the market and recover your original costs. Yes the tractor will take a hit for maybe putting say 1000 hours on it. You sell the tractor for $12,000. The cost of operation becomes depreciation, fuel and maintenance. The storage building you can continue to use so no loss there. The money you saved on physician expenses and ibuprofen can be written off the purchase price as you no longer need to dig stuff up by hand. This may bring the total cost of ownership down as well. Now you are looking at a loss of $4,000 for 1000 hours of work or $4/hour to get at least 10 times the amount of work accomplished as a shovel, rake and wheelbarrow would most have provided you.
PLUS! you own a tractor. BTW, do not buy a trailer as they lead to loaning and add to your cost of ownership..... Just take care of it and it will hold it's value well.
Build a dry storage location for a tractor. You buy the tractor for say $15,000. You use it to work around you place while taking good care of it. Once you finish your projects, you put it back on the market and recover your original costs. Yes the tractor will take a hit for maybe putting say 1000 hours on it. You sell the tractor for $12,000. The cost of operation becomes depreciation, fuel and maintenance. The storage building you can continue to use so no loss there. The money you saved on physician expenses and ibuprofen can be written off the purchase price as you no longer need to dig stuff up by hand. This may bring the total cost of ownership down as well. Now you are looking at a loss of $4,000 for 1000 hours of work or $4/hour to get at least 10 times the amount of work accomplished as a shovel, rake and wheelbarrow would most have provided you.
PLUS! you own a tractor. BTW, do not buy a trailer as they lead to loaning and add to your cost of ownership..... Just take care of it and it will hold it's value well.
