JohnandLaura
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- Feb 7, 2011
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Hello everyone!
We haven't posted in a while, we've started and stopped our tractor search many times over the past couple of years with frequent visits to this site.
We currently use a 1954 Case and a Cub Cadet mower to accomplish the bare minimum of our tasks. We'd like to do more. We think we have narrowed it down to the Kubota L3800 and L3940, but are having trouble deciding whether or not the L3940 is too much tractor for our needs. At the same time we wonder if the L3800 might be too small. This tractor will be driven by several different people - M/F and from short to tall.
Here is a list of our needs:
50 acre property with a few farm animals, with flat and hilly areas, lots of wet areas, 50% pasture, 50% wooded
Primary needs:
-Daily loader work for barn upkeep/manure removal
-Manure spreading (waste from maximum 4 cows and 10 chickens)
-Round bale moving
-Dirt/gravel work (currently doing this with a shovel and wheel barrow!)
Secondary needs:
-Snow removal
-Driveway & foundation pad grading
-Bush hogging about 20 acres once or twice a year
-Dragging firewood/logs out of the woods
We realize that we have gotten by for many years without a really reliable and useable tractor, so aren't even sure if we are overestimating the capabilities of either of these two tractors.
We don't expect it to pull a baler, for example, but it would be nice to be big enough to pull a variety of implements including a manure spreader. We just don't want to limit ourselves to something too small, or end up with such a big bear on our hands that it won't be practical as a daily driver all year round.
Thank you in advance for your help!
Laura & John
We haven't posted in a while, we've started and stopped our tractor search many times over the past couple of years with frequent visits to this site.
We currently use a 1954 Case and a Cub Cadet mower to accomplish the bare minimum of our tasks. We'd like to do more. We think we have narrowed it down to the Kubota L3800 and L3940, but are having trouble deciding whether or not the L3940 is too much tractor for our needs. At the same time we wonder if the L3800 might be too small. This tractor will be driven by several different people - M/F and from short to tall.
Here is a list of our needs:
50 acre property with a few farm animals, with flat and hilly areas, lots of wet areas, 50% pasture, 50% wooded
Primary needs:
-Daily loader work for barn upkeep/manure removal
-Manure spreading (waste from maximum 4 cows and 10 chickens)
-Round bale moving
-Dirt/gravel work (currently doing this with a shovel and wheel barrow!)
Secondary needs:
-Snow removal
-Driveway & foundation pad grading
-Bush hogging about 20 acres once or twice a year
-Dragging firewood/logs out of the woods
We realize that we have gotten by for many years without a really reliable and useable tractor, so aren't even sure if we are overestimating the capabilities of either of these two tractors.
We don't expect it to pull a baler, for example, but it would be nice to be big enough to pull a variety of implements including a manure spreader. We just don't want to limit ourselves to something too small, or end up with such a big bear on our hands that it won't be practical as a daily driver all year round.
Thank you in advance for your help!
Laura & John