dieselcrawler
Elite Member
My 3005, which is a 790 with new badge number, has done very well for me, for all the bigger it is. I have 118 acres of prime grade A West Virginia hillside... about half wooded, half overgrown pasture fields. I've been working my lil tractor hard, with 5' brush hog, on the fields, but it gets it done. It's slow, and as mentioned above, the reverse gears are too low compared to forward gears, of mine were just a little faster backwards in low range, it would be better.
Mine gets run wide open, and at about 365 hours, still runs like new. I've built a full brush cage with limb risers and screen on the back behind the ROPS, made wheel spacers to gain 4.5"ea/9" total, and sometimes carry a 5' piece of railroad track for ballast. RR track in bucket for brush hog ballast when on really steep hills, on the box blade for loader work. All 4 tires are loaded.
D@mn good little machine.
Mine gets run wide open, and at about 365 hours, still runs like new. I've built a full brush cage with limb risers and screen on the back behind the ROPS, made wheel spacers to gain 4.5"ea/9" total, and sometimes carry a 5' piece of railroad track for ballast. RR track in bucket for brush hog ballast when on really steep hills, on the box blade for loader work. All 4 tires are loaded.
D@mn good little machine.
