what can i do with tractor in horse farm ???

[Soundguy]

As the others said.. size matters... IE.. the more ac you got.. the more tractor or tractors you need.

I use my tractor to haul maneur, drag the areena and the pasture, cut the pasture, and to move large items .. like hay bales.. etc.

Soundguy

 

[canoetrpr]

Pretty much same as others here:

• Bush hogging pastures and trail
• Harrowing pastures and arena
• Cultivator to establish arena - get rid of grass.
• Loader to move manure around and another billion uses that a loader has. Can't believe I hadn't planned on getting a loader until I came to TBN. Now I wish you guys had talked me into a hoe
• Landscape rake for manure cleanup around loafing barn.
• 3PT snowblower to clear driveway.
• Hope to add box blade for driveway maintenance and rear blade for misc. stuff.
• Hope to add manure spreader.
• Never intended on using round bales but going to move some round bales arould with a 3PT spear for boarders.

 

[n8wrl]

And also.

Yep - I can move 10 10' temp fence panels at a time with my forks. VERY handy as each one takes 2 of us to move...

-Brian

 

[Soundguy]

Yep.. I can personaly attest to that. I had to move some cows a few months ago and has a guy show up to do the hard aprt.. I had to haul my cattle panels out to the corall, and just loaded tham all on the front spikes of the toothbar on my old 1955 ford 660 with fel. While she's not new.. it made moving the panels SOOOOOOO easy..

soundguy

 

[MicroPilot]

Yep - I can move 10 10' temp fence panels at a time with my forks. VERY handy as each one takes 2 of us to move...

-Brian

I've done this with the FEL mounted hay spear. It does make moving those things much easier.

 

[Timber]

Might as well jump in too, I use a box blade to keep my arena soft and level, I use the loader to turn my compost piles as well as picking up the paddock. I don't find it that useful to clean stalls, tractor is to big and loader to small.
Trail blazing and maintenance. Laying and maintain fences. Moving hay, shavings, and the list goes on

That is a killer Barn Riptide, what is that growing on the silo

 

[riptides]

That is a killer Barn Riptide, what is that growing on the silo

Well...... that is a tree. Right up the middle of the silo. Then on one side, Virginia creeper.

I need a structural engineer to examine the integrity of the silo. The whole base is poured concrete, as is the silo itself, but a whole lot of stuff is growing around it.

-Mike Z.

 

[shaley]

Mike, Are you near Loudon Co.?

 

[ruready1]

We use our "big" tractor (currently a Ford 860) for moving round bales with a spear, pallets w/3pt forks, stone/dirt/manure with a pond scoop, trenching with a subsoiler, harrowing the pastures (bigger harrow, less time), moving heavy items with a boom, pulling a 5' bush hog, digging post holes, moving the horse trailers around and doing any heavy grader work. Please note that all of the items are done with 3pt equipment. Yes, you CAN do it without an FEL but, I for one, am looking forward to the day I can have a huge equipment sale because I will have bought a FEL!!!

Our "little" tractor (a Kubota B6100-HST) is used for light grader work including barn and round pen cleanout and driveway maintenance, moving small wagons and trailers, stretching fence, being a work light when I have to repair fence at 2AM!!! , running me down to the mailbox when I'm too lazy to walk , the majority of finish mowing, catching the tight spots with a 4' bush hog and countless other things that come up in the average week if not day.

Our "tiny" tractor ( a GE E-14) does finish mowing around the house and end of the drive, cleans stalls/plows sidewalks/small dirt work with a front blade, hauls trailers (up to an 18' car hauler ) including the muck wagon and feed trailer, hauls any numbers of kids around on joyrides or when they're too lazy to walk!!!

There's never a day that one of the tractors isn't being used. Good equipment is a necessity as we found out when both the big and little tractors went down!!

HTH,
Mike

 

[Soundguy]

post some pics of the 860

soundguy