As an early update, I can tell you that I received my 2320 today. I had about 2 hours to play. In general, I am thrilled and thoroughly impressed with the power and capabilites of these (little?) tractors. I almost can't control my excitement . . but I'll leave that for another review.
As it relates to the 5' LX cutter . ..
Although the sheer size of a 5' rotary cutter needs to be seen in the flesh to appreciate (at least for me!) . .it didn't look completely out of place on the 2320. A little big . . but a good width for the tires. It carried well when elevated and had no trouble pulling and turning. I only made a few runs through early season meadow grass uncut from last season. Probably no more than knee height . .but it was soaking wet from morning rain. The cutter had no problems at a fast clip. I actually find the low range to be quite snappy. I didn't notice any labouring or bogging . .just ran like it was on bare ground. I'm sure it will be different in thick tall stuff . .but that alone gave me confidence. It did slow a couple of times when digging into sod undulations and scalping. And i did have that strange side carving/cutting of the sod by the side of the frame on a couple of turns. Although I can't really tell why.
As another testament I tried my 60" tiller. I'm coming off a MF202, which should have approx 37PTO, although I doubt it was making that at it's age. The tiller worked as good on my 2320, and it was wet heavy stuff. Soft and sandy but I did till virgin sod as well as some pretilled soil. I actually found it MUCH easier on the 2320 overall. Due in large part to the easy of the hydro and definitely the 4WD. The only limitaiton on my old MF was the muddy areas causing resistance to the entire tractor . . making deep ruts . .and ultumately getting stuck. The 2320 (tires not weighted) just floated and cruised. The one deep rut from the that started to slow things . .was simple with the diff lock engaged. And position contol was quick and easy to keep the right depth.
So again . .not a true test, but I was expecting to just barely get through things on the 2320 with two 5 foot implements. As it turned out, the performance was effortless. I'm shocked, frankly.
So I'm not saying . ."yes definitely buy a 5'" . . but I haven't seen a reason yet to say "don't".
when i had to suddently brake and the car was not stopping -last time I transported it before I traded it in on the 4310. now my trailer is only used for transporting items under 1500 pounds, so I can get my 300cx loader and the Frontier 72 blade on there as far as the tractor is concerend. i am looking at a larger trailer with double axeles but I do not yey have a vehicle that can pull a 10k capable trailer.
