JP11
Silver Member
Ok.. I'll try to make this short.
I've got.. just under 2 acres of grass. A half mile long drive, the last 300' of it pavement around the house. 11k sf of pavement.
I currently have/had
A F650 with a 10 foot plow for the dirt portion of drive. It's owned with a couple friends.. works great for the few hundred miles a year I put on it in winter. (friends use it in summer)
A 1966 JD1020 gas. 40hp. Has a old/beat loader. I've got a 60" rotary cutter. 6" chipper with hydro feed. a 6' rear blade. A 7' sickle mower. and a 72" rear snowblower (more on that neck killer later!)
I HAD a 21hp cub cadet mower/blower. I sold that for 2500 bucks.
I PLANNED to buy a exmark zero turn. Nothing faster for doing the lawn. It's a demo unit. Call it 7k upcoming cost this spring. Got the cash for that sitting ready.
NOW.. could I... keep the F650. Sell the 1020 for 5k or so. Put that with the money earmarked for the exmark. Now i'm 12k towards a replacement machine. In reality.. a 3030 probably wont run the chipper. They say 25pto min.. so maybe sell that too. Sell the rear blower for 1500. What am I up to.. 15 to 17k. Sounds like a little less than half of what i need.
B3030 or the new 3000 cab. all the cold weather stuff. Front mount blower (NO MORE TURNING around and killing my neck. Manual adjust chute has GOT TO GO) turfs, wheel weights (want to be able to lighten it up for mowing) mid mount deck (a narrow one so it will fit between my vehicles in garage.) loader.
Think I'll be happy? It's not the best at everything.. but It may be the one machine that will do all my work easy. I've got about 70 acres. Would love to buy a few loads of gravel and start building up my trail network. That wouldn't do well with the turfs (land is wet)
Thoughts? Anyone follow my rambling?
JP
I've got.. just under 2 acres of grass. A half mile long drive, the last 300' of it pavement around the house. 11k sf of pavement.
I currently have/had
A F650 with a 10 foot plow for the dirt portion of drive. It's owned with a couple friends.. works great for the few hundred miles a year I put on it in winter. (friends use it in summer)
A 1966 JD1020 gas. 40hp. Has a old/beat loader. I've got a 60" rotary cutter. 6" chipper with hydro feed. a 6' rear blade. A 7' sickle mower. and a 72" rear snowblower (more on that neck killer later!)
I HAD a 21hp cub cadet mower/blower. I sold that for 2500 bucks.
I PLANNED to buy a exmark zero turn. Nothing faster for doing the lawn. It's a demo unit. Call it 7k upcoming cost this spring. Got the cash for that sitting ready.
NOW.. could I... keep the F650. Sell the 1020 for 5k or so. Put that with the money earmarked for the exmark. Now i'm 12k towards a replacement machine. In reality.. a 3030 probably wont run the chipper. They say 25pto min.. so maybe sell that too. Sell the rear blower for 1500. What am I up to.. 15 to 17k. Sounds like a little less than half of what i need.
B3030 or the new 3000 cab. all the cold weather stuff. Front mount blower (NO MORE TURNING around and killing my neck. Manual adjust chute has GOT TO GO) turfs, wheel weights (want to be able to lighten it up for mowing) mid mount deck (a narrow one so it will fit between my vehicles in garage.) loader.
Think I'll be happy? It's not the best at everything.. but It may be the one machine that will do all my work easy. I've got about 70 acres. Would love to buy a few loads of gravel and start building up my trail network. That wouldn't do well with the turfs (land is wet)
Thoughts? Anyone follow my rambling?
JP