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New to the website. Can someone give us some sound advice?
Background:
My dad and I are new to the tractor world. We do not have a lot of land. We live about 45 north of Houston. I own 2 acres with a 1/4 acre pond with small gullies. The land is loaded with lots of pines, oaks and some underbrush. My dad has 1.2 acres heavily wooded.
Needs:
We are considering buying a tractor to help with basic leveling, removing small (12”) stumps, spreading dirt, moving cut trees, digging holes, working around the pond and all types of small projects. On the average we would probably only use it for about 3 to 10 hours a month. My wife is not even sure we need to buy a tractor as we could rent one 5 or 10 times and probably do what we need to do. If we buy one, we want the whole package to cost less than $24,000. My wife may be right but my dad and I are justifying the possible purchase by the fact of convenience. When you rent a tractor you have only limited time to do your project. With your own tractor you can go out, hop on and go anytime. You can always do side work for people and make a few bucks. And finally, you can always sell it.
Questions:
We have looked at Kubota, New Holland and John Deere. We were told to stay away from the others. We liked the Kubota’s and New Holland’s best. However, every time we go into the dealer (a Kubota and New Holland together) they always push the Kubota. Do they get a better incentive from Kubota or something? Anyway, we have looked at the BX-22 and it appears too small. We liked the B7800 and L2600. The attachments we were wanting were: a front end loader, backhoe, auger, and box blade.
1. The most important question? What size should we get? (my dad wants to make sure we have enough power to do whatever. He believes it’s better to have too much than not enough.)
2. What make has the least mechanical problems?
3. Are the attachable BL4690b backhoes worth the money?
4. Is the Mahindra 2810 HST any good? I looked it up on-line.
Any help anyone can provide would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
James
Background:
My dad and I are new to the tractor world. We do not have a lot of land. We live about 45 north of Houston. I own 2 acres with a 1/4 acre pond with small gullies. The land is loaded with lots of pines, oaks and some underbrush. My dad has 1.2 acres heavily wooded.
Needs:
We are considering buying a tractor to help with basic leveling, removing small (12”) stumps, spreading dirt, moving cut trees, digging holes, working around the pond and all types of small projects. On the average we would probably only use it for about 3 to 10 hours a month. My wife is not even sure we need to buy a tractor as we could rent one 5 or 10 times and probably do what we need to do. If we buy one, we want the whole package to cost less than $24,000. My wife may be right but my dad and I are justifying the possible purchase by the fact of convenience. When you rent a tractor you have only limited time to do your project. With your own tractor you can go out, hop on and go anytime. You can always do side work for people and make a few bucks. And finally, you can always sell it.
Questions:
We have looked at Kubota, New Holland and John Deere. We were told to stay away from the others. We liked the Kubota’s and New Holland’s best. However, every time we go into the dealer (a Kubota and New Holland together) they always push the Kubota. Do they get a better incentive from Kubota or something? Anyway, we have looked at the BX-22 and it appears too small. We liked the B7800 and L2600. The attachments we were wanting were: a front end loader, backhoe, auger, and box blade.
1. The most important question? What size should we get? (my dad wants to make sure we have enough power to do whatever. He believes it’s better to have too much than not enough.)
2. What make has the least mechanical problems?
3. Are the attachable BL4690b backhoes worth the money?
4. Is the Mahindra 2810 HST any good? I looked it up on-line.
Any help anyone can provide would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
James
