Well let me start off by saying that I am all for the safety doo-dads and thing-of-a-magiggies that are on the new tractors and I do NOT promote removing them or by-passing them in any way !
There now that is out of the way, so here goes my first impressions of my new TT50-A and SQ84T that I spent 5 hours on this past weekend. I'll post pictures of them once I get a chance now that the pasture looks all nice and such!
Love the tractor, very nice layout and runs great, BUT found out that with the SQ84T trying to look over the right to see how close you are getting to the posts, once you do that you un-weight the seat and the tractor shuts off! Not to mention that darn beeper, kept looking around for that BIG tractor backing up over me! Found out that the wife didn't weight enough to take the parking brake off without the tractor shutting off. Needless to say she wasn't impressed with that at all. So thanks to some tie wraps, electrical tape and unplugging a plug, they are no longer an issue.
Tractor has plenty of power for the SQ84T and will be hooking it to the haybine this week (providing weather is good) to see how it handles that, but don't see any problems so far. SQ-84T cuts beautiful, and it does go less that 2" cut, as my neighbor wants to use it to cut his back 1.5 acre yard once he saw the pasture. I was playing in one area and got it looking like a finish mower cut it, very impressed with it. Will say with the 4 blades, it sure makes quite a noise when a small rock gets bouncing around in there, much more that the old Woods mower!
So over all, tractor layout, performance, move ability (is that a word?) and overall function gets a BIG A+, but the ease of operation (starting, safety stuff) gets thumbs down for me and wife.
Would the TT60-A be a better tractor, of course, bigger is always better, but for what we (wife and myself) was looking for the horse farm, the 50 worked out much better and the money saved, bought the SQ84T.
Dealer (Charles Snyder) was class act, very nice, down to earth, gave best price right up front no dickering around and the knowledge was very impresive.
Well that's it, hope to get those pictures this week.
Bondo©
There now that is out of the way, so here goes my first impressions of my new TT50-A and SQ84T that I spent 5 hours on this past weekend. I'll post pictures of them once I get a chance now that the pasture looks all nice and such!
Love the tractor, very nice layout and runs great, BUT found out that with the SQ84T trying to look over the right to see how close you are getting to the posts, once you do that you un-weight the seat and the tractor shuts off! Not to mention that darn beeper, kept looking around for that BIG tractor backing up over me! Found out that the wife didn't weight enough to take the parking brake off without the tractor shutting off. Needless to say she wasn't impressed with that at all. So thanks to some tie wraps, electrical tape and unplugging a plug, they are no longer an issue.
Tractor has plenty of power for the SQ84T and will be hooking it to the haybine this week (providing weather is good) to see how it handles that, but don't see any problems so far. SQ-84T cuts beautiful, and it does go less that 2" cut, as my neighbor wants to use it to cut his back 1.5 acre yard once he saw the pasture. I was playing in one area and got it looking like a finish mower cut it, very impressed with it. Will say with the 4 blades, it sure makes quite a noise when a small rock gets bouncing around in there, much more that the old Woods mower!
So over all, tractor layout, performance, move ability (is that a word?) and overall function gets a BIG A+, but the ease of operation (starting, safety stuff) gets thumbs down for me and wife.
Would the TT60-A be a better tractor, of course, bigger is always better, but for what we (wife and myself) was looking for the horse farm, the 50 worked out much better and the money saved, bought the SQ84T.
Dealer (Charles Snyder) was class act, very nice, down to earth, gave best price right up front no dickering around and the knowledge was very impresive.
Well that's it, hope to get those pictures this week.
Bondo©
