HELP, where does one start???

[jokerman]

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Hello, Same ol' question, I guess but it seems like there are some REALLY experienced people out there so here goes:

-What tractor should I buy?
-How big/HP should I look at?

I recently bought a 13 acre parcel in Michigan, mainly wooded and will start building a new house soon. The building itself will be done by a contractor but I'm looking at clearing the build site from trees and setting up a nice big vegetable garden and probably some lawn.

I've looked at Kubotas as a favourite choice but then came across an ad for Farmpros being sold with 7 implements for the same price as a Kubota with only a FEL......

The work I'm looking at doing will be:

-A lot of FEL work.
-Rototilling
-Boxblade work, establishing a new driveway, clearing lots of topsoil, grading.
-Woodchipping
-Post hole digging
-Snowclearing
-General landscaping once the house is built.

I'm not blessed with a lot of time to work on an old machine but just feel like the $14000 that a 30 HP Kubota with FEL will set me back is a lot of money so I really want to get the right machine for the job here. I'm looking at keeping the machine for a long time and I've got a Kubota dealer close by.

Any advice would be much appreciated.

John

 

[skivt]

If you are clearing the site, you will need a backhoe. Never heard of a Farm Pro but Kubota is nice. Check out other brands, MF, NH, JD, etc.

Good luck,

skivt

 

[frank_f15]

1st of all welcome to the forum. just for general information i have 24 hp tractor and have 9 acres, use it for SNOW plowing, moving dirt, cutting fields and generally just doing what you want to do. so a 30 hp in your case would be fine. as to name brands that is up to you, BUT I have never heard of FARMPRO. there are many good tractors out there , jd, nh, kubota, kioti, branson, etc. you really need to personally sit on them and check them out! sometimes less expensive is not really less expensive. be really careful of the really way off the wall name brands. of course this is just MHO /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[frank_f15]

DON'T want to over load you, but you did ask for advice /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif which kubota were you looking at ? what type of transmission(for lots of fel work you want hydro) and what was the trany on the farmpro, and what 7 implements? made by ? so very many things to take into account, not to be done quickly.

 

[thcri]

Farm Pro does have a web page. Homier Distributing is on the bottom of the web page. The tractor looks to me like it is the same they sell at Northern Hydraulics. Of which I believe is a Jimna tractor.

I would look around some more and check out the other brands out there.

murph

 

[gippolit]

Take a look at Kioti.

 

[Dargo]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Homier Distributing )</font>

Aackkk! Run!! Sorry to offend, but anything I've ever had or seen from Homier came with the guarantee to break on the very first use. That is, of course, if it didn't break on the way home. /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

 

[rockyridgefarm]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( ...I've looked at Kubotas as a favourite choice but then came across an ad for Farmpros being sold with 7 implements for the same price as a Kubota with only a FEL......

...I'm not blessed with a lot of time to work on an old machine but just feel like the $14000 that a 30 HP Kubota with FEL will set me back is a lot of money so I really want to get the right machine for the job here. I'm looking at keeping the machine for a long time and I've got a Kubota dealer close by.

Any advice would be much appreciated.

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Even though you don't plan on selling this tractor anytime soon, consider the resale. You will be amazed at the resale value of the Kubota. If you did find out that it wasn't worth what you paid for it, someone ele willl gladly take it of your hands for hardly any less than you paid.

And if you don't have time to work on a older machine, you won't be happy with a FarmPro. Even their biggest fans will tell you they get to work ON their tractors a lot more than Kubota owners work WITH theirs.

Attachments can come over time. Deere is good about offering great deals on them with super financing, I imagine Kubota is no different.

Check other offerings, like Deere, New Holland, and Kioti. But if your gurt says Kubota, and you have a good dealer; go that way. You will be quite pleased down the trail...

 

[Laminarman]

A good local dealer is THE KEY!

 

[fish_wisperer]

i would pay atleast double the money for a kubota over a farmpro,,,,,,,triple, maybe more.