Newbie from WA

[stingray1]

Welcome to the forum.

 

[oosik]

Welcome to TBN from over here on the dry side. Always great to have another from WA.

 

[GSVette]

Welcome from another west sider (soon to be east sider).

Happy owner of a LS XR4155HC-shopped pretty much every brand and ended up at LS which seemed to give me the most bang for the buck.

You’ve an LS dealer in Enumclaw and a couple of more on the East side so there is a reasonable dealer network for LS-same, of course, with K, JD, Mahindra not quite so true for TYM and Kioti.

 

[WVBill]

Welcome from Whidbey Island. Wish I'd brought my Kubota when I retired here from WV but the size of my lot here just doesn't justify.

 

[cqaigy2]

Welcome aboard, from another West Sider. Not western Western Australia.

 

[jeff9366]

I have trails that require maintenance, and those trails are pretty hard on my little X500, which is why I'm looking to move up...

Subcompact tractors have 7" to 9" of ground clearance.

What is the ground clearance on your Deere X500?

Consider tractor models with 12" of ground clearance if woods work is involved. Slightly larger wheels/tires will bridge ruts and holes and cross downed tree branches with less jarring of the operator.

 

[repete]

Welcome to the site from 10 miles west of Chehalis.

 

[bmoore]

Thanks everyone! Wagtail, yes WA is the official US postal service abbreviation for Washington State. Confusing on an international forum since it is the same as the abbreviation for Western Australia. :laughing:

 

[bmoore]

Subcompact tractors have 7" to 9" of ground clearance.

What is the ground clearance on your Deere X500?

Consider tractor models with 12" of ground clearance if woods work is involved. Slightly larger wheels/tires will bridge ruts and holes and cross downed tree branches with less jarring of the operator.

Jeff, the X500 is actually just a big lawn tractor. 25 HP Kawasaki engine, turf tires, and maybe 6" of ground clearance if you remove the deck, but only about 3" with the deck installed. Deere calls it "multi-terrain" because it does have a rear diff lock, but it is not intended for ground engaging work. I'm able to get it down all of my trails in the dry months, but in the wet months it can't handle them. And I have one patch in one of my fields that gets pretty muddy in the winter, and it usually is mid-May before it dries out enough to mow with the X500, and by then the grass will be waist high or worse, and the little Deere really struggles with it. With a field mower, I would just not worry about it, and only mow the fields a few times a year, but now I have to really keep on them or they will get away from me.

 

[CPTKILLER]

Howdy, get one you like.