I would get a 2720. I have a 3120 and the 2720 is the same HP just a smaller frame. Personally I think the 3120 is to big of a frame for the HP.
Buying Advice 2720 or 3720
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I would get a 2720. I have a 3120 and the 2720 is the same HP just a smaller frame. Personally I think the 3120 is to big of a frame for the HP.
watersniper
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I will DEFINATELY post pics and YouTube video. I suspect I might be hand shoveling my 650' drive for half the winter though.... Word from the dealer last week was items were on order.
Your pal,
Debbie Downer
Your pal,
Debbie Downer
watersniper said:
Wow. How long are they saying? You should ask them to give you some sort of a loaner, at least a snowblower, sure they would lend you a used something during the wait. Talk about long hard back breaking work. Especially for a nice deep wet snow.
watersniper
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They won't take any money until the items are in. Thus I have a purchase agreement but no loan documents signed or money put down yet. I guess in the meantime I am saving money and I have built in workouts ahead! Heck I need to lose a few LBS anyway.
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Still, why does one buy a tractor, to use IT instead of your body. I believe there is a tool for EVERYTHING, you just have to look for it, and you will find a tool with a purpose. If it can be done with a tool or piece of equipment over back breaking labor, I am all for it. That is exactly why I want my 2520, not just save my back, but save time as well.
****, when I get mine, I plan on getting 2 of the biggest utility carts John Deere has (17P isn't it?) and building a extension off the first cart to hook up a second to it, road train on the lawn! I'll get all that pile moved in one trip!
JDTank said:Still, why does one buy a tractor, to use IT instead of your body. I believe there is a tool for EVERYTHING, you just have to look for it, and you will find a tool with a purpose. If it can be done with a tool or piece of equipment over back breaking labor, I am all for it. That is exactly why I want my 2520, not just save my back, but save time as well.
****, when I get mine, I plan on getting 2 of the biggest utility carts John Deere has (17P isn't it?) and building a extension off the first cart to hook up a second to it, road train on the lawn! I'll get all that pile moved in one trip!
He has it on order and won't be here until half way through winter. Since he hasn't paid for it until its in there's no deal for a loaner. The reason he's hand shoveling is because he wont have his tractor.
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BethesdaEC
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Still, why does one buy a tractor, to use IT instead of your body. I believe there is a tool for EVERYTHING, you just have to look for it, and you will find a tool with a purpose. If it can be done with a tool or piece of equipment over back breaking labor, I am all for it. That is exactly why I want my 2520, not just save my back, but save time as well.
****, when I get mine, I plan on getting 2 of the biggest utility carts John Deere has (17P isn't it?) and building a extension off the first cart to hook up a second to it, road train on the lawn! I'll get all that pile moved in one trip!
Don't waste your time or money on a cart. By the time you fill it with the tractor, wrestle it onto the tow bar, back it up to the dump pile and then wrestle the dump mechanism you could have made two extra runs with the bucket. Of course it never dumps out on the first try so you got to move forward because the first half of the pile is preventing the rest from coming out. Now you have this long low pile that needs to be cleaned up so you use the loader to clean it up and at this point you could have made another two runs. I just moved an old stump dump next to the house down to the bottom of the property, I must have made 70 to a 100 runs to move it all at about 8 minutes a run I would have killed myself after the first couple of runs if I did it with a cart.
Bought our JD650, FEL/BH in 1988. Sold all the lawn carts and trailers we used behind our 2 garden tractors in 1989. Just sayin!
BethesdaEC
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I sold my lawn cart a couple of months ago, it hadn't moved since I bought the tractor.
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I know that, I was just saying in general, that's what anyone buys one for. I'm not giving him the gears for shoveling.
As far as the utility carts go, I know for sure they will serve 1 good purpose. When we buy bags of horse bedding, we have to carry them from the house to the barn, which is about 500 feet one way. 50 bags at 40 lbs a bag and your tired pretty quick! With a cart I could load some in there and some in the bucket, be done in 2 trips!
