In the market for our first tractor...a few ???s

[N80]

If you have a tractor and you have dirt, you will find a box blade useful.

I leave mine on at all times just to balance the loader. That might sound a little odd if you haven't operated a light tractor with a loader on it. But with tractors, balance is everything and having a little weight on the rear makes using the loader much easier.

Where is WNC? I'm familiar with the SC lowcountry (lived in Charleston, vacationed near Beaufort for years.)

If you do things in steps rather than as a package, get the rotary cutter first, box blade second, post hole digger third. Get the dealer to put a toothbar on the FEL bucket (you have to have an FEL). The teeth will help you dig, but they will help a lot with moving brush and grubbing up small trees and bushes.

If you get your implements in a package, get decent stuff. Look at the Landpride and Bush Hog websites and look at the specs on their box blades and cutters. Look at weight, thickness of deck material on the cutter and sidewalls on the BB. I'm not saying buy those brands, lighter cheaper stuff may work for your needs. Just know what's out there and how it all compares. TBN and the internet makes it easy.

Finally, I'd strongly recommend Ag tires. I don't know where WNC is but the soil around Beaufort is black, sandy and muddy when wet!

 

[teg]

I took WNC as western North Carolina, but I don't know.

"...17 acres of overgrown land..." How overgrown? 1 to 2 inch saplings or larger? Is this after a logging operation? If it is, make sure you get at least a med. to heavy duty cutter... they are not all built the same. I wish I got more attachments when I bought but couldn't do it.

 

[thcri]

Get them now all in one package and come home with a big smile on your face and have fun.


murph

Let me clarify. Buy only the ones you need now, not later otehrwise you will never get them. I never intended for anyone to buy something they don't need. And if they do and find out they don't need something they can send it to me and I will take it off their hands at NO CHARGE. Thank you all

 

[N80]

I took WNC as western North Carolina, but I don't know.

If it is Western North Carolina, check out the Kubota place in Hendersonville. They were very helpful when I was shopping.

 

[oz in SC]

I took WNC as western North Carolina, but I don't know.

"...17 acres of overgrown land..." How overgrown? 1 to 2 inch saplings or larger? Is this after a logging operation? If it is, make sure you get at least a med. to heavy duty cutter... they are not all built the same. I wish I got more attachments when I bought but couldn't do it.

The brush we want gone is that small as well as some sort of thorny bushes,we are trying to save as many of the trees as possible.

The land was cut over probably ten years ago,the stumps are pretty flush to the ground and actually rotting away.

I am leaning towards as good a brush cutter as possible(within reason of course) and perhaps not bothering with the posthole digger at this point.

 

[Z-Michigan]

Having recently bought my setup... I would say get the implements you plan to use right away, but not stuff that just might be nice to have. Obviously the cutter is an immediate need. You will probably want either a box or angle blade too (having both would be nice).

I don't think Kubota makes their own implements, other than the FEL and backhoe. Not sure who does, might try to find out. Hardly any of the makers make their own; they outsource to companies that also make stuff under their own names. You will often get better quality and/or price by buying stuff under the implement maker's brand rather than the tractor manufacturer's brand. There are only two reasons I would get the Kubota brand:
1) You want to finance and it's the only way they will finance the implement.
2) You find out that it is made by a top manufacturer like Woods and is the same or lower price as the one with the manufacturer's name painted on it.

For top quality, Woods and Landpride are tough to beat. I would get a Woods brushbull as your cutter, if you can afford it; among the best on the market. There are other brands that are quite good also, but seem to be harder to find, at least in my area - Monroe Tufline, Modern, Midwest, Worksaver, and others. Howse and King Kutter are probably at the bottom, though many people seem to like them.