The day my wife
forced /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif me to buy a tractor ( A sad tale chronicled elsewhere on TBN /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif), I had three machine to show her;
<ul type="square">[*]The BX-22- ( a BX-2200 stood in, the dealer having no BX-22s on the lot that day ) This was the machine she was familiar with and probably expected me to get.
[*]The
B7500- Which I had pretty much made made my mind up to get ( with permission /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif)
[*]The TC21- Some nice points to that <font color="blue">blue</font> iron, and I always like to keep to competing otions in mind to the end
[/list]While we were there we looked at a
B7800- more that a little bit larger, and to my mind as good a deal as there is going for a tractor, but decided that it was just too big to justify, particularly considering our current 1/3 acre residential lot!
It was while we were looking at the
B7800 that my wife said "I can see us getting a bigger tractor when we get some land. We'd keep the smaller one too, of course" ( or words to that effect /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif)
Frankly, our lot doesn't justify a tractor period. (A statement I will deny making, of course) But the few hours I've put on it, doing the smallish tasks available have convinced me, with absolutely no reservations whatsoever, that we made the right decision going with the bigger (
B7500 vs BX-22) tractor. Scaling up to your situation, there are probably few tasks on 4 acres that the
B7500 is not more than a match for. The
B7800 on the other hand would do many things faster and more easily, and you would be less likely to be testing its limits. From what I have seen here, I would suggest that while there are people that wish they had bought smaller, that situation is a rare exception.
Good luck!
(And nobody said being nuts is a
bad thing...)
