The best way to shop for tractors is to determine your tasks first, then determine how much tractor weight you need to accomplish as many of your tasks as possible, SAFELY.
Shop your weight range within tractor brands. Budget will eliminate some choices.
I like to spreadsheet tractor and implement specs, often a revealing exercise. I have a column for cost per pound.
A quality dealer, reasonably close, is a priority for me; less so for others, well experienced in tractors, who do their own maintenance. For most new to tractors a quality dealer, reasonably close, available for coaching, is
essential. My wonderful Kubota dealer is six miles away.
It takes a 50% increase in tractor weight before you notice a significant performance increase. It takes a 100% increase in tractor weight to elicit MY-OH-MY!
Selling a used tractor is easy. Selling multiple light implements in order to buy heavier, wider, implements for a heavier tractor is a pain and often a big hit in depreciation. ((Ask me how I know.)) Many who buy too light tractors buy too light implements.
Where I operate in Florida the soil contains zero rocks. Stumps rot out in three to five years. I get along without a Backhoe fine. I have an implement on the Three Point Hitch almost every day.
Others, with more challenging conditions, find Backhoes worth the significant investment or a necessity.
For many new to tractors, $7,000 of heavier tractor chassis weight is money betterl spent relative to a $7,000 Backhoe option on a lighter chassis tractor.
Kubota's
L2501 is a fine tractor but probably NOT enough chassis weight to keep the moderately experienced OP satisfied.
(( Also, Kubota Grand Ls are really quiet.))
