xlr82v2
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CLUB "25"
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AchingBack
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It is a good thing Illinois is flat.xlr82v2 said:Just a thread for owners of Mahindra "25" series tractors.
Check in, post pics, discuss. Run with it! HAVE FUN!
WE DON'T NEED NO STEENKIN' 4WD!!!
Etch
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Almost 40 hours on my 3525 and still loving it. The only problems I have is with the tires, but that's more my land than anything. Thorns everywhere! So far I've had my rear left tire go flat twice and my front left tire, which was supposedly filled with sealant go flat once. Of course, I'd rather have the front go flat than the back since I can easily take it off and take it to a tire shop and have it fixed for $10. The rear tire costs me $60 per incident.
This weekend I'm going to test out my post hole digger. I put it together last weekend, althought I had to make a modification to the box that protects gear box so I could get the shear bolt in. The picture in the manual shows a 3-sided box and you put the bolt in on the open side. The box I got was 4 sided with a hole, which was too hight to align the bolt with the hole. I had to make the hole a little bigger with my grinder.. lol
This weekend I'm going to test out my post hole digger. I put it together last weekend, althought I had to make a modification to the box that protects gear box so I could get the shear bolt in. The picture in the manual shows a 3-sided box and you put the bolt in on the open side. The box I got was 4 sided with a hole, which was too hight to align the bolt with the hole. I had to make the hole a little bigger with my grinder.. lol
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xlr82v2
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AchingBack said:
FLAT? Not where I'm at!
We've got some heart attack hills on my property!I'll see if I can get some pics to post later... raining right now... FINALLY!!
Over the weekend, I spent around 4 hours bush hogging with my DI 350. It puts a smile on my face every time that I get to use the tractor.
I'll have to post some pictures of it sometime soon. I am curious to find out the number of 25 series owners who are members on this forum. Hopefully other 25 series owners will chime in on this thread.
Cheers,
John
I'll have to post some pictures of it sometime soon. I am curious to find out the number of 25 series owners who are members on this forum. Hopefully other 25 series owners will chime in on this thread.
Cheers,
John
Etch
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Drilled some post holes today for my new gate. I got some pretty rough soil, but the post hole digger drilled like it was "butta". 4 ft hole in like 20 seconds. WOW!
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xlr82v2
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Yesterday, I brushhogged about 2 1/2 acres of our ground that was just too rugged to tackle with my old 8N. Dug out a bunch of small saplings that were too big to take down with the 'hog. I wish I would have gotten my wife out there to videotape. It would have been good footage showing that you can work the hills without 4WD
Also, I have NEVER broken a shear bolt on the 'hog with the 8N in the 8 years I've had it!!! I broke 5 of them yesterday with the 3525!!! The thing is a BEAST!
Then after I finished working down in the woods, I put on the finish mower and mowed the lawn... put about 6 hours on it yesterday
Also, I have NEVER broken a shear bolt on the 'hog with the 8N in the 8 years I've had it!!! I broke 5 of them yesterday with the 3525!!!
The thing is a BEAST!Then after I finished working down in the woods, I put on the finish mower and mowed the lawn... put about 6 hours on it yesterday
RedRiver
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Sounds like you enjoy your 3525 so much you want to trailer it down here to MS and mow my yard.
DonWorrell
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I just turned 40 hours on my 3325. I mowed 4 acres Sunday a week ago. I took me 4 hours with my finishing mower. I used slightly under 4 gallons of fuel.
I love my 3325.
Wish I had bought a new tractor a few years ago. I loved my Allis Chalmbers WD-45 but my Mahindra 3325 is much nicer. Not as much horse power 45 hp verses 35 in the 3325 but you would never know the difference in the power.
Don
I love my 3325.
Wish I had bought a new tractor a few years ago. I loved my Allis Chalmbers WD-45 but my Mahindra 3325 is much nicer. Not as much horse power 45 hp verses 35 in the 3325 but you would never know the difference in the power.
Don
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I traded in the sweetest little 8n on my new 5525. I sold an AC185 with an FEL. I'll miss the 8n for the little chores, the 185 is like last weeks newspaper, forgotten.
I have 11 hard hours on the new 5525. Bush hogging tall thick weeds & brush, dragging some big trees to the doze pile, making a few deer plots, using a 7' Rhino blade to do the 300 yard drive, used the 6' box blade around the house, moved some dirt with the FEL and drove over to the neighbors for a glass of water. He looked at me like I stole something when he asked the price.
My brother bought a 6520 and smiles a lot too. Years ago I don't remember either one of us smiling with loads of hay behind Dad's old VAC Case tractors.
Next chores are digging corner posts with the 3 pt digger, more box blade work and smoothing some top soil on a neighbors yard. I've been telling my wife this is hard work, she busted me, calls it having fun. I guess the smile gave it all away.
I have 11 hard hours on the new 5525. Bush hogging tall thick weeds & brush, dragging some big trees to the doze pile, making a few deer plots, using a 7' Rhino blade to do the 300 yard drive, used the 6' box blade around the house, moved some dirt with the FEL and drove over to the neighbors for a glass of water. He looked at me like I stole something when he asked the price.
My brother bought a 6520 and smiles a lot too. Years ago I don't remember either one of us smiling with loads of hay behind Dad's old VAC Case tractors.
Next chores are digging corner posts with the 3 pt digger, more box blade work and smoothing some top soil on a neighbors yard. I've been telling my wife this is hard work, she busted me, calls it having fun. I guess the smile gave it all away.