New Place

[Sockwell]

The family and I just lucked into a new place. We weren't really looking to buy, but stumbled onto a 40+ acre farm. About 25 acres are in pasture, about 1 acre is yard, about 10 acres are wooded, and, maybe best of all, 4+ acres are in a well stocked pond. Deer and turkey are everywhere. In fact, what got my interest up was the second time I saw it there was a 8 point buck in velvet standing in the pasture at 10:00 in the morning.

The issue is I bought a CCY EX3200 in August. The pastures will have to be cleaned up, then kept mowed. We had no idea this would come our way when the tractor was bought. Am I undersized on the tractor or not?

 

[bpattie]

just my opinion, but you should be ok. Larger tractor may have ben warranted but yours should get the job done. you also mentioned 10 acres are wooded. Not sure how tight the trees are but I have found a little smaller tractor can negotiate the trees a little easier. You don't mention what else you will use the tractor for and that may change things. I have a similar size Kubota and 20 acres and it does fine for me. I clean snow, rear blade the corral to clean, dig occasional holes to bury stumps, maintain the drive, hauls felled trees in 12 or so foot lengths to cut and split for firewood. use the bucket to haul or move various things and again It does fine for my needs.

 

[Johndeere3720]

My 19 horse Yanmar is perfect size for 4 acres of wooded land. I can even drive between trees that are only 48" apart. The joys of having a 40" wide tractor. I dont think you will need another tractor since your tractor has plenty power to keep your place maintained. Happy seat time to you.

 

[kebo]

Lucky you to be able to buy 40acres, congrats to you! As for the tractor size, you can run the cub for a year or two and see how it handles all the chores you need it to do. Personally, I think you will be sastisfied with it. The only thing you might find it lacking is not being able to run a substantially large enough mower to really minimize the time spent keeping the 25acre pasture cut. You can probably run a 6ft bush hog ok, that will take a pretty good while to cut 25acres. But, the flipside is you get to put more hours on it keeping it cut! Good luck.

 

[whistlepig]

Congratulation on the new farm. This size tractor should take care of the tasks you describe. I would think a 5' brush cutter would be as large as you would want to run on this tractor. With a 5' brush cutter about 1.5 acres an hour is going to be the mowing time. So about 16 hours to mow 25 acres of pasture. Mowing pasture can be done a few hours at a time when time permits. It's not like mowing the lawn when it all has to finished up the same day.

 

[Builder]

Wow, sounds great. A 40 acre farm in my area would cost about $3 million bucks.

 

[Duffster]

Wow, sounds great. A 40 acre farm in my area would cost about $3 million bucks.

 

[Builder]

You can do all the sarcastic eye rolls you want dumpster, but land sells for well over 100K per acre in my area. Approved building lots are 150K.

3 million for 40 acres is cheap.

 

[Duffster]

You can do all the sarcastic eye rolls you want dumpster, but land sells for well over 100K per acre in my area. Approved building lots are 150K.

3 million for 40 acres is cheap.

 

[MtnViewRanch]

You can do all the sarcastic eye rolls you want dumpster, but land sells for well over 100K per acre in my area. Approved building lots are 150K.

3 million for 40 acres is cheap.

Does not the price per acre go down as the parcels get larger?

 

[WilliamBos]

No!! I could not afford that much land here either. One exception would be in the Northern part of the province, but that is so far north, that I would have to fly to work every day.

 

[Treemonkey1000]

Why mow all of that acreage? If it is fenced well enough put some livestock on it. Seed it in a good hay crop and sell the hay. Or rent the pasture out to 4-H kids and let them do some of the work.

 

[Sockwell]

I had thought about selling the hay, but not the 4H possibility. Food for thought. The current owner has horses on the farm. He must take really good care of them, because the only reason they stay in is because they want to. They could get out in a multitude of places. As soon as we get the house to the wife's liking, the fence will be the second project. The first will be a couple of food plots if its not too late. (The second time I saw the property, there was a 10 pt. buck grazing in the pasture.)

I can't believe the property prices you guys are talking about. I thought $3000 per acre was high. We gave less than $250k for 41 acres with a 2500 sq. ft. house.

One of the main draws of the property is the pond. It is between 4 and 5 acres. I've heard of people taking 8# bass from it. It, like the fence, is grown up. That will be another project.

I've tried to post pictures, but may have to do it from work. Better net service there.

 

[AndyMA]

Does not the price per acre go down as the parcels get larger?

Usually

Andy

 

[Builder]

Does not the price per acre go down as the parcels get larger?

It sure does in my area. If you take my examples, I said approved building lots sell for 150K/acre. In my next example, I said a 40 acre farm would sell for 3 million.

3 million/40 acres= $75,000/acre.

$75,000/acre is half the price of an approved building lot ($150,000) and also reflects a lower price for buying a number of acres.

 

[bpattie]

Just curious Builder, what area of the country do you live in?

 

[Builder]

Just curious Builder, what area of the country do you live in?

Just on the border of PA & Delaware above Wilmington, DE.