L3560 vs L4060 from L3200

[Herkypilot]

My L3540 is a great utility tractor for all the odds and ends jobs. Mine is open station so I can maneuver in the woods without worrying too much. I agree with a bit short on HP sometimes. When I find that it starts to slow down, I switch from hi to low on the HST+ on the fly and that restores some of the bogging. Stall guard does protect from stalling but not bogging. As far as implement size, I tried the 6' BH on this tractor, but I'd have to go pretty slow in thick areas whereas on my old MX5100 gear tractor, it really had no problems at all. 29 hp pto vs about 48 hp pto is of course a big difference. The point being, yes the L3540 could do it, but not nearly as efficient as a larger tractor and if you had a lot of brushhog work to do, why would you want to.

Depending on how much property you have to take care of and your means, the best option is to have two tractors, one smaller to take care of all the tasks that require close quarter work / a lot of "forward/backward movement, and a larger one for the brute strength that HP provides. How much do you want to compromise?

I clearly didn't want to compromise too much - that's why I traded in the MX5100 for an M7060 HDC 12 and a 12' batwing cutter.

HP

 

[mike69440]

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I think we think alike about tractor stuff. The older Kubota 4610 are really great all around tractors, strong tractors, especially with factory cab.

If dead set on new, at least give Kioti, LS, Branson, and a few of the Mahindra's, stc. a test drive.

Yeah, I know, lot to be said for Kubota.

 

[varmint]

When we had a Grand L 3130, which had only 31 hp, supposedly, but on a mid-size frame, it didn't feel underpowered for the sort of work I did- snow plowing, firewood hauling and so forth, but perhaps if I had been using a 6' BH I might feel differently? Still, it seemed plenty capable, if not real fast.