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Thanks all, very good suggestions, I think you guys are probably right that a SCUT is probably overkill. My propery which minus the house is probably at MOST 3/4 acre, is very uneven, hilly, and has lots of obstacles, like PVC pipes sticking out of the ground for my leak field, well pump head, garden beds, etc. Currently I have a 4x4 ATV, and I use the ATV to pull around a 10 cubic foot Sears cart that I usually use to move dirt, rocks, etc. Then in the winter (I live in northern Jersey), I use the ATV with a 48" plow to remove the snow off my driveway which is about a 100' paved level driveway. The ATV with the plow has no problem going through about a foot of snow so it works good. The issue I have is that I am going to most likely need to get rid of the ATV because it's my father's and he wants it back for his house.
So because I am sick of pushing my walk behind mower up and down my hilly uneven property, I thought that I should get a ride on mower, but if I was going to get a ride on, I should try and get something that I could use for also plowing my driveway of snow in the winter, and something that could handle pulling a 10-20 cubic yard trailer full of rocks, dirt, etc. around my yard and up slopes. My front yard looks like a huge mound with grass on it as I have a raised septic system so the huge mound is my entire front yard and it's a pain to cut the grass becasue of pushing the lawn mower up one side of the mound and down the other.
My backyard slopes down away from my house and I plan on building a retaining wall and backfilling it to level off my back yard. When this happens, I will have lots of dirt delivered and dumped near my front yard that I will have to move to the backyard. This is where a Loader would be very useful. Besides this, I supposed I could use a loader to plow my driveway in the winter as well. A rear end hoe would be nice but I would probably need to use it a couple of times for stumps, etc. A few miles away there is a rental shop with all this kind of equipment, so I could always rent a small backhoe for these few instances I suppose. So maybe I would be better suited with a nice riding mower that is strong enough to handle pulling carts of dirt, and plowing my driveway? what do you guys think, any recommendations?
I was looking at some of the Sears and Home Depot John Deere ride on mowers. They are okay but looks sort of cheap and I think that my hilly, bumpy, uneven yard might hurt their frames, trannys after a while but I'm not sure what these machines can really handle as I have never owned one. I was checking out the Kubota BX1500 with the front loader, now that looks nice, but you are still talking about 10K for that machine with a loader and mower. Plus I don't know something like that would compare to a Sears ride on mower in terms of cutting around obstacles and making sharp turns.
So because I am sick of pushing my walk behind mower up and down my hilly uneven property, I thought that I should get a ride on mower, but if I was going to get a ride on, I should try and get something that I could use for also plowing my driveway of snow in the winter, and something that could handle pulling a 10-20 cubic yard trailer full of rocks, dirt, etc. around my yard and up slopes. My front yard looks like a huge mound with grass on it as I have a raised septic system so the huge mound is my entire front yard and it's a pain to cut the grass becasue of pushing the lawn mower up one side of the mound and down the other.
My backyard slopes down away from my house and I plan on building a retaining wall and backfilling it to level off my back yard. When this happens, I will have lots of dirt delivered and dumped near my front yard that I will have to move to the backyard. This is where a Loader would be very useful. Besides this, I supposed I could use a loader to plow my driveway in the winter as well. A rear end hoe would be nice but I would probably need to use it a couple of times for stumps, etc. A few miles away there is a rental shop with all this kind of equipment, so I could always rent a small backhoe for these few instances I suppose. So maybe I would be better suited with a nice riding mower that is strong enough to handle pulling carts of dirt, and plowing my driveway? what do you guys think, any recommendations?
I was looking at some of the Sears and Home Depot John Deere ride on mowers. They are okay but looks sort of cheap and I think that my hilly, bumpy, uneven yard might hurt their frames, trannys after a while but I'm not sure what these machines can really handle as I have never owned one. I was checking out the Kubota BX1500 with the front loader, now that looks nice, but you are still talking about 10K for that machine with a loader and mower. Plus I don't know something like that would compare to a Sears ride on mower in terms of cutting around obstacles and making sharp turns.
