A disadvantage of a larger tractor.

[Gfsimon]

I've had my B2910 for about 3 months now and have come across the first disadvantage of buying the B2910 vs a smaller tractor (or even my old JD 320). When plowing snow on a gravel driveway, you can move a LOT of gravel a LOT further from the driveway /w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif. Now that the snow is melting, it's time to start cleaning up, and what a mess! Also got into a little "discussion" with my wife about how she thinks it is silly for me to load 2 rakes and 1 shovel in the FEL and use the tractor to haul them to the top of the driveway. She just doesn't get it /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif.

Kubota related, I recently got back from our annual wine sampling tour of northern CA. First time I noticed it, but I'd venure to guess that 75% of the tractors used in the vineyards are <font color=orange>ORANGE</font color=orange>/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif. Now I'm one step closer to owning a vineyard /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

Jerry
<font color=orange>SE Minnesota</font color=orange>

 

[Roy]

Jerry; While at the vineyards, did you ask if they use Super-UDT, UDT, Amsoil, or simply just any old Chardonay? /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

Roy

 

[Anonymous Poster]

Speaking of the vineyards, back in 83 when I bought my Ford NH, the dealer had a large number of tractors that had only been used to haul grape carts in California, they were 4WD, ag tires, with 50-150 hours on them. Unfortunately they came in 6 months after I bought mine /w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif.

Apparently this was an every year deal, the winerys would lease them for the period just when the grapes needed to move. For those of you in the purchase mode for any brand of tractor, might be worth checking this out with some dealers. Must not matter much where you are, I'm in Washington which is a mile or two from California. The prices on the tractors were substantially lower.

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