Another Newbie looking to buy a tractor

[RjCorazza]

Fine looking machine... Enjoy!

 

[mike69440]

Thanks Carl_NH

I'm not 100% sure I'll be requiring the hydraulic thumb outside of work near the lake. My house's soil has some rocks but nothing major. I don't think I'd be flipping between needing/not needing it a ton. More of an occasional use or if using the thumb, it would be consistently on.

That being said, any idea if Kioti makes a kit specifically? If not, pretty sure I'll have to do it down the road if it becomes necessary. The dealership said Kioti would void my FEL warranty if I had a bolt on tooth bar. Assuming if a hydraulic thumb didn't come from Kioti, they would not warranty the backhoe during that first year.

Read this thread and would like to offer my perspective as I have cut a 1000' elevated driveway thru a rocky tree wooden swap 18 years ago.
My tractor is a bit more suited for such a task than your tractor by a only little bit. It has gotten 20 years of good hard use and runs strong because I did not use it exclusively to build my drive. It is way too valuable a destroy a tractor doing such work.
Use heavy equipment for the real heavy lifting to clear and rough in your project.
If you're a cheap bastard like myself, you can use you machine to finish the drive.
What you spend on hiring out or renting heavy equipment you will save on wear tear, and deprecation on your tractor, saving your new tractor for all those fun smaller projects that would cost a fortune to hire out.
If you have some time to kill, for either inspiration or discouragement, see this long thread of mine.

Busy Wife This Weekend

She and our little Kubota B7200 built this terraced garden plot. All I did to help was bucket out 5 loads of clay, a bit of BH work to set the larger stones and mix up some manure and soil with the L39. My time was less than 3 hours. She did the rest, leaving me to focus on road building...

www.tractorbynet.com

 

[Carl_NH]

Congratulations on your new machine - looks great!

 

[MaineBarn]

Wanted to close the loop. I snapped some pictures when I was up there on July 4th of the terrain. Walking through it, and with a better understanding of what a tractor can do, pretty confident a path could have been forged. There were definitely some areas to avoid as they got really rocky and really unlevel. For the most part, the attached pictures are a pretty good representation of the challenge. The land was clear cut 15-20 years ago based on relative's recollection.

Alas the person who is potentially building on the land decided they aren't going to build anytime soon. If they do, it sounds like they're going to build right off the existing road. Which means there's no sense in making an adventure of it as with a dozer it will take a day or two.