rccoyote
Bronze Member
With 10 acres to maintain, I would definately opt for the 4 wheel drive. You will kick yourself for not having it down the road in time. I guarantee there will be instances where you will wish you had it or thank your lucky stars that you do have it. In small CUT's it just plain makes sense to go with 4 wheel drive with that amount of land. Sure, a big old honkin 40 or 50 horse 2 wheel drive will have the weight and traction you need, but when your talkin compact tractor for 5 or more acres i would almost demand 4 wheel drive. I have an 1820d model. It's a happy medium between the smaller yanmars and the slightly bigger(horsepower) ones. It has exceptional weight for it's size and with the 4 wheel drive i have not found much that it cant do that the larger 25 or so horsepower compacts can do. I regularly bush-hog 2 to 5 acre tracts with it. I am going against better judgement, I use a 5ft. bush-hog with my 1820d. It is a light/medium duty older servis rhino and just about all my hogging is grass/weeds on mostly flat terrain. I would not use a 5 footer on anything smaller and my setup is probably the uper limit as far as bush-hog size goes for this tractor. But man is it ever a sweet mowing machine!! 5 foot of bush-hog definately cuts mowing time down! I also do some tilling and box-blading. Any serious tilling will just about demand 4 wheel drive also. I'm not talking about tilling a 15X30 garden here,a 2 wheel drive will handle that, but you said gardening on 10 acres...get 4 wheel drive, you'll thank yourself for many years to come.
rccoyote
rccoyote
