I have 10 acres and it is mostly flat. Do have a creek in front that has water during rainy season. I want the HST because my wife wants that since it is like the riding lawn mower we have. I would like to sell the riding lawn mower and have one thing I can put into my garage. Thinking 24 to 30 HP would be enough. We have 10 acres with mostly oaks and other hardwood trees. Clearing out some of the small stuff and trying to make it more "park" like so it is easy to walk around (and watch the deer).
Would like to have a backhoe since I would like to maintain about 300 ft of shallow ditch along my driveway and also do some drainage improvements around the house. Also we burn the wood from fallen trees so digging a pit and then being able to cover up the burnt stuff would be nice. May want to try and use a backhoe to remove some stumps.
No farming and the area around the house has grass (about 1 acre now but trying to expand this some). For implements a FEL, backhoe, maybe a mid mount mower or something to pull behind a tractor). A box blade or 6 point blade (think that is what it is called) to do some work on driveway (600 ft long). If I had a bush hog and a trailer I may do church lot (use to but tore up my riding lawn mower about every time I cut it).
I would be interested in used equipment to try and save money but my wife is afraid we will buy something that will break and spend more on repairs. Kubota seems very good but expensive. Heard Kioti is like Kubota but less and the Yanmar distribution center is in Adairsville GA about 60 miles from here and so is the Branson distribution in Rome GA.
