I thought I would throw my twelve months of experience taming my 4110 in here. I purchased my 4110 a year ago with a FEL for $16,650 from Quality Equipment in Elgin, Texas (just north of our place). With the exception of her rough complexion (i.e., a lot of bumbs and bruises on the front and hood as a result of pushing, moving and pulling a lot of trees and brush that were blown down from a touch down last Spring prior to our wedding), she is the best and toughest thing on our place next to my Italian wife. By the way, a good brush guard or any brush guard would have been great and possibly would have prevented most of the bumps and bruises -- Mahindra does not offer such a thing so farming/ranching goes on...right fellows?
After bending the factory bucket earlier this year, I bought an ATI Tach-All for the FEL along with a used JCB bucket with seperate teeth (turns out to be much better than a tooth bar -- removal is easy w/ my air impact), round bale spear and a grappler bucket to load the round bales on the hay trailers correctly. We yielded about 300 round bales last year. Second to moving bales, we used the BH implements (i.e., 286 rotary cutter, RDTH-72 finish mower and 2103 PHD) the rest of the time. There has only been a couple times when the 4110 was ever choked out. That was when we ran the 286 through 3' high coastal grass mixed in with a lot of 4' plus high mesquite and allthorns and then along came a big rock that made her cough. She has not stopped for anything else.
Instead of using wheel weights, liquid in the tires, ballast boxes, or a homemade rear ballast, I use the 200 gallon sprayer full of water for counter weight. I read a thread where a guy does that on here or somewhere else and it works like a charm. One gallon of water weighs 8.33 pounds so the whole sprayer adds approx. 1,700 pounds on the rear. What a counterweight?! She's as stable as can be with no rolling at all. Plus, the sprayer's pistol makes an awfully good fire hose when those surface, sandstone boulders light up light a roman candle!
The fellow who mows, rakes and bales my hay has been so impressed that he has gone out and bought himself one. However, it looks kind of tarnished sitting there with all that green, but hey, he had to start somewhere. Imagine that, a green man turning his back and heading for the promised land! You gotta like camaraderie!
Sure, I could say the low gear sits a little low and close to the knee...the fan grills build up with brush and dust...I'd like to have a set of R1s instead of the R4s on her when digging and pulling in different terrains...I'd like to have telescoping lower links/arms when wrestling with our BH MBX-720 (box blade)...I wish I had a cab on these 100+ degree days here in central Texas...or even that she'd lift a few thousand pounds with her FEL, however all and all, I cannot think of or even make up one realistic, bad thing about my 4110. So as far as I am concerned (bad complexion or not), she's still runs like a [new] Mahindra - Built Like a Brick S---house!
Fight the Good Fight!
P.S., thought I'd throw in a photo my brother took one day we were doing a little housekeeping on her, Jack (our Bronco) and few other toys!
