Maibox
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- Joined
- May 17, 2012
- Messages
- 125
- Location
- Winona, MN
- Tractor
- Kubota L3940; 1942 Farmall H (for sale)
I started a thread awhile ago (http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/kubota-buying-pricing/245116-new-l3800-vs-2008-l4240.html) and want to thank everyone that provided great information. (Background on my property and planned uses from previous post at the end of this post).
I'm right on the cusp of moving forward and while I was looking at a L3800 and a used L4240 back in May, after much more lurking and research, I think I've settled on a L3940.
Here's what I'm planning on getting: L3940, R4's filled rears, FEL with QA, regular bucket, 3rd function value, 2 remotes (one reg, one float), LP RC 1872, for grapple-WR Long OBG 272.
Thanks in advance. Looking forward to finalizing and buying by the end of this week!
Some questions:
-The quote is for water/methane to fill the rears. Thoughts on this?
-As I'm buying some implements right now, anything I'm missing? I'm thinking it may be good to get a rear blade for snow plowing (right now I pay to have the 1/3 mile blacktopped driveway plowed). Thoughts, recommendations on size/brand?
-Anything else I should consider?
Background: We've got 43 acres that is mostly wooded. The house is at the back of a narrow valley in a bowl with hills that are about 300' higher than the house. We have an acre or so around the house, 1/3 mile blacktop driveway (with 8-10' of grass on either side and some larger areas of grass) that climbs 120 feet from the road to the house--most of the climb is in the first 3rd of the driveway from the road. We have a 2 acre pasture, mostly flat (small hill), on one side of the driveway where the 4 stall horse barn is located. The other side is about 1-1.5 acres of grassy pasture and another 3 or so acres of currently overgrown "wooded" pasture. The rest of the area is steep wooded old forest. Our neighbor is currently rotating two horses through the 2 acre pasture. We will likely get 2 horse of our own and rotate our horses between the two pastures (we will only have the two horses--neighbor's horses are short term).
We have a tremendous amount of brush/downed trees on the property. Previous owner would just block the trees and pile the brush on the edge of the woods or in the middle of the pasture. The fence around the larger, wooded pasture needs to be rebuilt before we can use it (lots of down trees, plus barbed).
I'm looking for an all around tractor, with FEL and enough PTO power to run a 6' rotary cutter. Planned use is to brush cut the pastures as needed; haul wood for wood fireplace; haul manure and wood chips, bark, sand; reclaim the 3 acres of wooded pasture, clean up brush (may get a chipper) and other general maintenance (fencing).
After reading a lot of posts, I'll probably hire out the main work of reclaiming the pasture and the fence lines and then use the tractor to maintain.
I'm right on the cusp of moving forward and while I was looking at a L3800 and a used L4240 back in May, after much more lurking and research, I think I've settled on a L3940.
Here's what I'm planning on getting: L3940, R4's filled rears, FEL with QA, regular bucket, 3rd function value, 2 remotes (one reg, one float), LP RC 1872, for grapple-WR Long OBG 272.
Thanks in advance. Looking forward to finalizing and buying by the end of this week!
Some questions:
-The quote is for water/methane to fill the rears. Thoughts on this?
-As I'm buying some implements right now, anything I'm missing? I'm thinking it may be good to get a rear blade for snow plowing (right now I pay to have the 1/3 mile blacktopped driveway plowed). Thoughts, recommendations on size/brand?
-Anything else I should consider?
Background: We've got 43 acres that is mostly wooded. The house is at the back of a narrow valley in a bowl with hills that are about 300' higher than the house. We have an acre or so around the house, 1/3 mile blacktop driveway (with 8-10' of grass on either side and some larger areas of grass) that climbs 120 feet from the road to the house--most of the climb is in the first 3rd of the driveway from the road. We have a 2 acre pasture, mostly flat (small hill), on one side of the driveway where the 4 stall horse barn is located. The other side is about 1-1.5 acres of grassy pasture and another 3 or so acres of currently overgrown "wooded" pasture. The rest of the area is steep wooded old forest. Our neighbor is currently rotating two horses through the 2 acre pasture. We will likely get 2 horse of our own and rotate our horses between the two pastures (we will only have the two horses--neighbor's horses are short term).
We have a tremendous amount of brush/downed trees on the property. Previous owner would just block the trees and pile the brush on the edge of the woods or in the middle of the pasture. The fence around the larger, wooded pasture needs to be rebuilt before we can use it (lots of down trees, plus barbed).
I'm looking for an all around tractor, with FEL and enough PTO power to run a 6' rotary cutter. Planned use is to brush cut the pastures as needed; haul wood for wood fireplace; haul manure and wood chips, bark, sand; reclaim the 3 acres of wooded pasture, clean up brush (may get a chipper) and other general maintenance (fencing).
After reading a lot of posts, I'll probably hire out the main work of reclaiming the pasture and the fence lines and then use the tractor to maintain.