Side by Side or 4x4

[bigtiller]

When my gator isn't working, it is still getting used almost daily as a work bench, leaning post, or lawn chair.

 

[tacticalturnip]

We do trail work each summer and did use a Ford ranger to get in and do that. Guess what we use today?

I tried to talk my wife into one of these one day; no, she insists we get a side-by-side!

I love those 6-wheelers you've posted; you had an older one before, right?

[EDIT]: If I'd of scrolled down before posting I'd have answered my own question, lol.

 

[ROUSTABOUT]

Just get a riding mower at a yard sale. I've gotten good ones for 100.00. Put a wide seat snow chains on rear, winch on front. 200.00 and you can travel. That's real beater money. I use 79 and older pickups myself, my 74 has been squeezed down to sxs width because it has flat sides from trees. I bought it from an old fella that repaired tires on the spot, mobile repair. Logging woods tires. But, runs great. Been running great since I got it. 1992, right after returning from military. I won't hesitate to drive it on a 100 mile trip either. Drove it to Shreveport to pick up something a while back. Manual steering, manual 4 spd transmission, manual transfer case with only 2 and 4 (no low range ever), manual brakes, no radio, no AC, optional lap belts, and I put those in. It will go zero to sixty eventually. No really it has a good running 300 cid six cylinder, plenty of power. Simple as an 8N tractor.

 

[TN8Man]

I bought a Kodiak 450 quad 8 years ago for utility work on the property and some fun. It was my first atv and found it very useful and needed but it has its limitations. So I recently sold it and got the Ranger 1000 Sport. It can do much more for me with room for the wife and dog. The towing capability will come in real handy and trail riding is great.

 

[fuchifarm]

Ive been seeing better prices show up on Facebook marketplace lately. I picked up a 2002 6x4 diesel Gator with roof for $2k this week. It has 2k hours but runs good. Handles the soft ground really well. There was a 4x4 2006 gas gator for $2200 last week. Currently there is a gas 6x4 listed at $2200 right now.

I've also seen several 2wd trail wagons in the $1500 to $2500 lately. There are reasonably priced machines out there you just need to keep an eye out on marketplace few times a day and be ready to jump on a deal. I missed a nice 2018 diesel kubota rtv with 800 hours for $5k recently.

 

[mred2]

I have a 590 gator. It goes places you would never try a truck. between trees that my tractor can't go. My tractor is too heavy for the yard, so it is the wheel barrel for dirt for the yard. Also use it to fix fence and spray apple trees, get mail and haul trash to the road. It is cheap on gas. I try to use the best tool for the job.

 

[TractorTYMe]

Get a Maxhindra Roxor Turbo Diesel......it's like an old jeep. But new.....they go for around $16k

 

[wolc123]

My vote is for the 4x4. When my old pickup rusted to the point that it wouldn’t pass state inspection, I took it up to my father in law’s place up in the mountains. He uses it to to keep the driveways and logging roads up there open in the winter with a snowplow, and I use it for hunting in the fall.

It works better than a side by side for that, because the closed cab holds my scent in and let’s me get downwind of the deer, without spooking them as I drive upwind and past their holding areas. That technique worked so good up there, that I picked up an old Durango to use on our farm at home.

The closed cabs are also nice if it starts raining when I’m back at the range, because I can keep all my shooting supplies under cover.

The suspension on that Durango is real nice, providing a very smooth ride thru the ditches. That on the 3/4 ton pickup, not so much.

 

[Eagle1]

Got a Durango no way it would fit between trees or jump the down logs like my ATV. I can get mine up to the cattle but NO way it would make it through the mud at the gate much of the year. My 2 tractors can't but my ATV pulls a little trailer without fail. It really really depends on what terrain you have and what you want to accomplish. Not much flat and lots of trails that are 48 to 50 inches wide and would take a lot of backhoe work to widen.

 

[wolc123]

Got a Durango no way it would fit between trees or jump the down logs like my ATV. I can get mine up to the cattle but NO way it would make it through the mud at the gate much of the year. My 2 tractors can't but my ATV pulls a little trailer without fail. It really really depends on what terrain you have and what you want to accomplish. Not much flat and lots of trails that are 48 to 50 inches wide and would take a lot of backhoe work to widen.

I try to stay out of the mud, but I almost buried that old Durango last Thanksgiving, shortly after that photo was taken. It was fine on the hayfield and the lanes, but I took a shortcut across a turnip plot, that had been worked up and planted last August.

I felt the wheels start to slip, so I put the hammer down. The wide Cooper tires dug in pretty good and somehow kept me going until I made it thru. I’m sure I’m going to have some nasty ruts to patch up after things dry out this spring.