How many acres do you own/operate on?

[jaybrad]

Property?

We have a 3 BR apartment in the city with an off road parking spot. The neighbors snickered when we bought a red GC2310TLB, but they won't be laughing this winter when our parking spot is always kept nice and clear and they are out shoveling for hours.

 

[dieselram]

Where do you run the Massey in the city? Looks like this was a good thread.

 

[jaybrad]

Where do you run the Massey in the city? Looks like this was a good thread.

Busted.

We live in the country and have a small house with < 2 acres. But after reading about all the others with their hundreds of acres and big tractors, I was feeling a bit sheepish.

 

[Taylork]

30 acres, about 20 wooded, 9.5 open, 2 ponds with about .5 acre of water, with a 5103 to keep it somewhat in decent shape. Never have enough time to get it all done.

 

[flusher]

Figured I would start a little questionare here, how many acres do you use your tractor on and how big of a machine do you have? I have 25.5 of some field and woods and a 4300 TLB, 513 JD hog, International 5" box scraper and a 6' KK York rake. WANT A LARGE FRAME COMPACT!

10 acres flat pasture land. Used to have a 2005 Kubota B7510HST (21 hp engine, 17 hp pto, 4WD) with the LA302 FEL (4 ft bucket). Traded that for a new Mahindra 5525 (55 hp engine, 45 hp pto, 2WD) with the ML250 FEL (6 ft bucket).

Also have a 1964 MF-135 diesel (45 hp engine, 37 hp pto).

Going to put a hay crop on 7 acres. The 5525 is the tillage tractor that pulls 2-14 plows (either a JD 415 3pt rig or an IH #8 Little Genius pull plow),

7 ft offset disc, 7 ft tandem disc

and a MF-124 square baler.

The MF-135 handles the planting with an old Minneapolis Moline P3-6 grain drill with grass box (10 ft wide, 20 drops),

a 10-ft cultipacker

an old Allis Chalmers 80T trailer sicklebar mower,

and a JD 350 side delivery rake.

As you can see, I have zero brand loyalty. I buy what's cheap and available and fix it if I have to in order to get it to work.

 

[cast_and_blast]

1.5 acres in MN and a whole lot of sidewalk to maintain via snowblower in the winter.

Scott

 

[hpc]

2.1 acres in the Indy area - all grass/turf except for about 1/3 acre which
was a run-off area for water. Been reclaiming it - it has about 8"
of rich, black top soil with a hard clay base underneath.

The 3520 e-Hydro with 300CX loader, 655 tiller, ballast box, and 72" MMM does
hauling; snow removal, cutting of big weeds in the wet area. The
D928 Grasshopper does the lawn cutting and most of the snow removal
using the rotary broom.

Overkill - oh yeah! But, the 3520 has reclaimed about 1/2
acre of land; helped neighbors with tree planting, clearing, etc.
I wish the 72"MMM did NOT leave big ruts from the front casters
digging in on turns.

With all of the rain lately, my nicely turfed 1/3 acre is now
all brown and the weeds are coming back...need to find a grass
that will survive being underwater for a few to several days
after the big rains. The bluegrass, fescue blend didn't work out.

Been thinking about trading the Grasshopper for a Deere 997 ZTR,
but love the rotary broom for snow. Easy-on, easy-off.

Cheers!

 

[LBrown59]

the 3520 has
helped neighbors with tree planting, clearing, etc.
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Watch your insurance coverage on this as you may not be protected/.

 

[putt_putt_green]

20 acres at home. 11 with hardwoods, 8 acres of wild grass, and 1 acre of lawn.

23 acres retirement property (8 years away). 18 acres of 30' high worthless red pines and 5 acres of very mature hardwoods (mostly sugar maples).

JD3520 tractor (see signature).

 

[polo1665]

33 acres in northeast Ohio. Most of it wooded (about 26 acres) with a 1400' drive. I use the 3510h to keep the field mowed and the drive cleared and maintained.