cowboydoc
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Re: Kubota RTV900 Sightings or Demo\'s ?
Wow where do I start the justification. There are quite a few justifications for ours. First off let me say that the last Gator we bought was a 6x4, fully loaded, for only $7100. In two years the one we just sold had almost 300 hours on it. I sold it for $6200. For two years and 300 hours of worth I paid $3/hour for it.
Now what did we do with it. Well first of all use it most everyday to check cattle and horses. If we need to doctor or move small calves it works great. With the amount of ground we have we have to cover alot of ground. It's great for going around all the pastures, fields, etc. as general transportation checking, working, and hauling different things here and there. It goes places the pickups won't and where it's cumbersome to take a tractor not to mention the gator is safer and faster doing it.
For fixing fences we put all of our stuff in the box and go. When stringing wire we run it up and down the fence lines moving people, materials and wire back and forth. The Gator is my choice above all else because there is almost zero impaction on my pastures and hayfields. In the summer if I'm out in the fields I use the gator to go back and forth to the equipment. My girls can bring me things, tools, lunch, etc. in the back and they're very safe driving it. We use it haul haybales out to feed horses in the winter and summer.
One we have hooked to our smaller manure spreader and twice a day it we clean stalls with it and the little spreader and spread over the pastures. No way I could make this work with a tractor as it's too big and cumbersome. We use them for irrigation in the summertime. We can carry all the parts for the sprinkler systems in the back and extra tubes, repair material, etc. And you can drive them most anywhwere as they are very easy on the ground.
We use it constantly for harrowing. We've got a couple harrows for dragging the arenas and the pastures when we rotate cattle. I can also send my 6 yo out on it periodically to just run around and go over manure piles and not worry about her at all.
Around the house it's used for many things. We use it to put mulch around the trees in the summer, move snow in the winter, haul firewood, haul tools, etc. etc. We take it hunting, use it to exercise and move horses, just alot of things. There are alot more things that we use it for as well. No way I would want to put all the hours on my tractor doing all those things and it wouldn't do all those things nearly as well or as fast. No doubt on our places the Gators and the Mule are the most used equipment we own.
Wow where do I start the justification. There are quite a few justifications for ours. First off let me say that the last Gator we bought was a 6x4, fully loaded, for only $7100. In two years the one we just sold had almost 300 hours on it. I sold it for $6200. For two years and 300 hours of worth I paid $3/hour for it.
Now what did we do with it. Well first of all use it most everyday to check cattle and horses. If we need to doctor or move small calves it works great. With the amount of ground we have we have to cover alot of ground. It's great for going around all the pastures, fields, etc. as general transportation checking, working, and hauling different things here and there. It goes places the pickups won't and where it's cumbersome to take a tractor not to mention the gator is safer and faster doing it.
For fixing fences we put all of our stuff in the box and go. When stringing wire we run it up and down the fence lines moving people, materials and wire back and forth. The Gator is my choice above all else because there is almost zero impaction on my pastures and hayfields. In the summer if I'm out in the fields I use the gator to go back and forth to the equipment. My girls can bring me things, tools, lunch, etc. in the back and they're very safe driving it. We use it haul haybales out to feed horses in the winter and summer.
One we have hooked to our smaller manure spreader and twice a day it we clean stalls with it and the little spreader and spread over the pastures. No way I could make this work with a tractor as it's too big and cumbersome. We use them for irrigation in the summertime. We can carry all the parts for the sprinkler systems in the back and extra tubes, repair material, etc. And you can drive them most anywhwere as they are very easy on the ground.
We use it constantly for harrowing. We've got a couple harrows for dragging the arenas and the pastures when we rotate cattle. I can also send my 6 yo out on it periodically to just run around and go over manure piles and not worry about her at all.
Around the house it's used for many things. We use it to put mulch around the trees in the summer, move snow in the winter, haul firewood, haul tools, etc. etc. We take it hunting, use it to exercise and move horses, just alot of things. There are alot more things that we use it for as well. No way I would want to put all the hours on my tractor doing all those things and it wouldn't do all those things nearly as well or as fast. No doubt on our places the Gators and the Mule are the most used equipment we own.
