Mowing Small tractor for mowing 1acre.

[MarkStewart]

Re: Small tractor for mowing 1acre.

Those look like rice tires you have on there. Do they tear up your turf real bad? Nice looking tractor btw.

 

[Inspector507]

Re: Small tractor for mowing 1acre.

Mark,
Mine doesn't tear as much as it leaves ruts. I left them on this spring because of all the rain, and now I take a beating when mowing going over the ruts left by the rice tires.

Jerry

 

[gbirky]

Re: Small tractor for mowing 1acre.

They are rice tires, and yes they do tear up the turf. Although I didn't have any trouble with them until this last mowing. It has been raining about every other day for the last 2 weeks and the ground is soft on top, but hard down about 1-2 inches. During the summer, we had one of the worst droughts on the books, so the ground was as hard as rock and the tires didn't do any damage, but I didn't have to mow much either.

I do have a set of 265/75R16 Michelin truck tires I'm going to put on the tractor this spring in place of the 8-16 rice tires. For now, mowing is over and I have removed the belly mower. I will be putting the snow blade on this weekend if it doesn't rain too much. I want the rice tires for snow.

I used the tractor to finally plow my potatoes on Monday. First use of the 3pt hitch I built for the tractor. It worked great! In fact, it worked so well that I'm going to use the potato plow to make a ditch to bury some drain pipe.

 

[s1120]

Re: Small tractor for mowing 1acre.

Greg, First nice to see anouther Mustang guy on the board. I have a 70.

As for the tractor stuff. If you want a tire a bit less agressive then the rice tires, but better then the truck tires. I just picked up a set of Firestone ag tires in the same size for my Ingersoll. I love them. Granted yours weights a bit more, but I have had no problem with digging up the lawn. Pluss they were cheap. I payed less then $70 each.

 

[gbirky]

Re: Small tractor for mowing 1acre.

Hey Paul,
Ditto on the mustang owner. I actually have two, a '67 289 auto convertable, and a '67 390 GT coup with the rock crusher 4spd tranny. The GT needs a 390 to go back in it as it was drag raced and the original engine was blown up and replaced with a 302 2V by the previous owner. Some day maybe I'll get a digital camera and get some photos of the cars to post on my website.

As for tractor tires, I have an ag tire dealer about a mile from my house. He also does cars and trucks, and had these Michelins he had taken off a customer's truck. They have about 30% tread, and he only charged me $5 each. The price was right! They shouldn't be a problem in my yard as I have 4wd to help out with traction.

If you are still looking for a bigger tractor, I'd highly recommend a Yanmar. A YM1510D would be a great size for you. Maybe even a YM1610D which is quite a bit beefier than the YM1510D. As nice as my 1301D is, I'd really like to have a YM1610D or even an FX16D with a loader to replace it. I'd set up the one 1110D for mowing, and sell the 1301D.

 

[s1120]

Re: Small tractor for mowing 1acre.

<font color=red>If you are still looking for a bigger tractor, I'd highly recommend a Yanmar</font color=red>

I would not roule one out, only problem is they are not easy to find in my area. I think I have only seen one or two in the want ads.