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Greetings. I have been lurking here for some time now. What an incredible source of information!
I recently took delivery of a new TC30. I took advantage of the 0% for 36 months. Free money! What a concept. I also bought a 60" Bush Hog rottery cutter and a box blade. Just the start!
This tractor is the key to my wife's and my money pit project. Just about a year ago we undertook a project to build a home on 6 acres. We found a lot with 4 of the narlyest but most pristine wooded acres and 2 acres of former orange grove. The grove is rough and uneven from the trees being pushed out after a freeze. The woods are solid Florida Oak. We spent the best protion of the last year cutting and trimming trees. We hired a bud to bush hog for a while but it was always on his time frame.
Since the tractor arrived with .9 hours on it, it has been pushed hard. First to bush hog 3 of the 6 acres... (insert Tim the Tool Man grunt here). Then to blade the ruts where I managed to burry my Ram 2500 to the frame during an El Nino show of force last summer. Now.. on to smooth the grove/pasture. I borrowed a buddied 6.5 foot disc. I was worried it may be too big for the TC30 and that the hard clay/peat (not all Florida is sandy beach). It took a few passes but the results are wonderful!
At first I was worrited about 30 horses being to few... Not so.. This thing digs in and asks for more.
One more cool little story and I am off.. I buried the TC30 deep into a low spot where all the water on the lot flows. I mean burried it. Mud was flying off the R4's. It was the same area my truck had to be pulled out with a bud's tree wrecker. My wife spotted the roster tail of mud and ran to a high spot with this silly... "You did it now" grin on her face. /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif ... I smiled, locked the differencial, and crawled it out with the FEL in seconds. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
I will post pictures someday but I am embarassed there is a touch of mud on it.
Greetings from Darby (near San Antonio that is near Dade City that is near Tampa)!
Don
I recently took delivery of a new TC30. I took advantage of the 0% for 36 months. Free money! What a concept. I also bought a 60" Bush Hog rottery cutter and a box blade. Just the start!
This tractor is the key to my wife's and my money pit project. Just about a year ago we undertook a project to build a home on 6 acres. We found a lot with 4 of the narlyest but most pristine wooded acres and 2 acres of former orange grove. The grove is rough and uneven from the trees being pushed out after a freeze. The woods are solid Florida Oak. We spent the best protion of the last year cutting and trimming trees. We hired a bud to bush hog for a while but it was always on his time frame.
Since the tractor arrived with .9 hours on it, it has been pushed hard. First to bush hog 3 of the 6 acres... (insert Tim the Tool Man grunt here). Then to blade the ruts where I managed to burry my Ram 2500 to the frame during an El Nino show of force last summer. Now.. on to smooth the grove/pasture. I borrowed a buddied 6.5 foot disc. I was worried it may be too big for the TC30 and that the hard clay/peat (not all Florida is sandy beach). It took a few passes but the results are wonderful!
At first I was worrited about 30 horses being to few... Not so.. This thing digs in and asks for more.
One more cool little story and I am off.. I buried the TC30 deep into a low spot where all the water on the lot flows. I mean burried it. Mud was flying off the R4's. It was the same area my truck had to be pulled out with a bud's tree wrecker. My wife spotted the roster tail of mud and ran to a high spot with this silly... "You did it now" grin on her face. /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif ... I smiled, locked the differencial, and crawled it out with the FEL in seconds. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
I will post pictures someday but I am embarassed there is a touch of mud on it.
Greetings from Darby (near San Antonio that is near Dade City that is near Tampa)!
Don