Another first time buyer looking for help

[KiotiJohn]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( What do you mean by not exceling at ground engaging work? )</font>
Forgive my butting in, but ground-engaging is any implement such as a box blade, plow, cultivator etc that engages into the ground. Very power hungry operations, and often require more weight than a PT has to be really effective.
John

 

[bloody_peasant]

Thanks John, that's kinda what I thought just wanted to make sure. For the minor types of ground stuff I mentioned above in my first post is the PT ok?

Minor grading/leveling
Tilling
Basic driveway maintenace
Possibly dragging and shaping a small ditch

 

[Bob_Skurka]

Power Tracs are amazingly capable machines. They are better at doing things than most people give them credit for. I've had a couple at my proeprty and IF it was not for the fact that I already had a couple traditional tractors and implements to go with them, I would be a PT owner today. Because the bodies not only articulate, but also oscillate, they offer full pressure contact with the ground on all 4 wheels even when the ground is rough or uneven, this provides more traction in adverse conditions than a traditional rigid frame tractor can deliver which can easily find one or more wheels with less than ideal traction, or even wheels spinning in the air.

For the uses you have outlined and a whole lot more, a Power Trac would be a great machine.

 

[Birdhunter1]

You could get in a Massey Ferguson 135 (deisel or gas) for about $6k (tractor only for a good one) and with all the implements you'd ever need you wouldn't have to spend over $10k. The 135 is easy to use, easy to manuever around with, small enoughto put a finish mower on nd mow you're yard, and big enough to shape a dithc, do your garden and maintain your driveway.

 

[KiotiJohn]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Thanks John, that's kinda what I thought just wanted to make sure. For the minor types of ground stuff I mentioned above in my first post is the PT ok?

Minor grading/leveling
Tilling
Basic driveway maintenace
Possibly dragging and shaping a small ditch )</font>

Yes, they may be able to do that, but from my own experience with a much larger/heavier machine, any serious dirt work with other than a rototiller is going to be too much for the PT. I don't own one, and for my uses, I wouldn't. That doesn't mean it wouldn't be just right for you, but I can't say.
John

 

[IslandTractor]

<font color="blue"> Isn't it VA not WV where they are located at? </font>

Yep, Tazwell VA. Don't know what I was thinking when I wrote WV.

John already responded on the ground engaging question.

I agree with Bob about the PTs so long as you can deal with the caveats I mentioned in my first post. Very versatile machines. If I lived in NC and could arrange cheap transport I'd probably own one.