I recently purchased a house on 60 acres with ~5 acres semi-open~ 55 acres wooded with lots of logging trails.
How much tractor experience have you had?
A BX tractor will be fine for landscaping five acres. Slow, but fine.
Due to BX 9" ground clearance and teensy front wheels every >6" fallen branch, every burrow, every hole will impede BX access to your 55 wooded acres.
Neophyte tractor operators are often intimidated by instability of compact tractors with small front wheels and large rear wheels, therefore frequently purchase tractors too light, too small for long term satisfaction. ((Tractors seem to shrink after about twenty hours of operating experience.))
Several reasons owner/operators trade up from Subcompact Tractors:
More ground clearance.
Three-range (3) HST (Lower LOW, Higher, HIGH) ~~ rather than two-range (2) HST.
More tractor weight.
More FEL lift capacity.
Larger wheels and tires have a larger tire/tread "patch" in contact with the soil. Larger wheels and tires bridge small holes, ruts and tree debris maintaining traction, which stall subcompact tractors. As a result, larger wheels/tires yield more tractive power pulling ground contact implements and logs, pushing a loader bucket into dirt and pushing snow. Larger wheels and tires decrease operator perturbation operating over rough ground.
Subcompact and compact tractors under 3,000 pounds bare weight operate in landscape, kitchen/commercial garden or hobby farm applications on one to ten
flat acres.
