What a difference a large tractor makes!

[jjp8182]

So the only answer is to have 2, or 3, or maybe even 4 different sized tractors, and a skid steer, and a bulldozer, and an excavator and a ...........

That's my goal

 

[BrokenTrack]

Stay away from the bulldozers!

I actually like bulldozers, as they do a lot of work, but they cost a lot of money in repairs too.

They say the best day of your life is the day you buy a bulldozer, and the day you sell it. :cool2:

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Same here, when I want some pulling power, I go for the dozer,

I can honestly say, mine has been very reliable...

SR

 

[RjCorazza]

The only problem I see is that he is not using his hydraulic top link.

That gives me an idea!!! My 3 point spreader manual push / pull to open the material gate could be operated with my toplink cylinder in the lower mounting hole on the tractor. The manual gate was fine on my previous open station tractor, but it's impossible to reach from the cab.
Might be real easy to mangle the gate, but I'll have to see what I can work up.

 

[TSO]

That's a beautiful sight!

Large is fun, and extra large is really fun. Back in the 90's we had a big snowstorm and they were short-handed at one of the inlaw's farms so I bagged work. They had a number of chicken houses (layers) and were getting several tractor trailer loads of new birds. They were able to open up just enough to get the trucks in, but there was no place for them to turn around. My job was to take the big Massey and drag the empty trucks through the field in a big circle and get them pointed back out in the right direction. That tractor was the most powerful piece of equipment I've ever used. Wherever it went, the tractor trailers followed along like pull toys. This is one of the few pictures of the Massey I can find. The row of equipment is what they sold off when they sold that farm in the early 2000's.

The second Case is one that I borrowed to clear snow when the Ford 1210 was down one time. Wish I had a picture of that. With my 5' rear blade all bushed down to fit it resembled the picture Lou posted. I always cleared the driveway for an old couple across the road. Standard procedure was when the heard the tractor they'd raise the garage door so I could drop the rear blade inside the garage and pull snow away from it. Then we'd wave HI at each other and I'd clear the snow. The old guy was expecting the little Ford as usual and was quite taken aback.

 

[BrokenTrack]

Same here, when I want some pulling power, I go for the dozer.

Tracks are nice because you can go almost anywhere, it can just be tough to really match the tractive effort they do have, with implements to make up for their lack of speed.

It is not impossible. I have double-teamed harrows, which was a great way of getting twice the tillage on a single pass, so that really used its tractive effort at slower speed to do more. But some stuff it is tough, like using a roll over plow. I could easily pull a four bottom plow, but it is not worth buying a plow separately for the few times I would need it though.

The one thing I really liked though was putting a spreader on my bulldozer; with tracks not only can you get on a field really early in the spring, but you can spread fertilizer on the roughest pasture because there is no place a bulldozer cannot go.

Bulldozers have teamed up well with my farm tractor, but my days of buying a bulldozer are over. I think an excavator/tractor team would be far more useful. The tractor can pull and push, where as the excavator can lift and dig. With a bulldozer, it pushes really well, but that is about all it can do.

 

[Cougsfan]

When leveling a site for my home, the contractor used a guy on an excavator teamed up with a guy on a bulldozer. It was on a hill side and we made a finished level spot that was about a 300 foot square of undisturbed soil. The total cut at the deepest spot was 13 feet, so a lot of dirt had to be moved.
The excavator just kept digging and making dirt piles while the dozer pushed the pile away. Fortunately there was no rock at all (this Palouse area is amazing!) They did an absolutely incredible job in a very short amount of time.