Has nothing to do with majority.. and yes.. the OP need to realize he will likely use his tractor for more taskes other than the three he listed.
Not thinking ahead like that can get you too small or too big of a tractor. How many here have bought and then traded a couple years later after they realized they needed bigger or smaller.
A wide range of ideas, of what is and can be done with small to large tractors will help the OP. You seem to fall int he middle of the range, and DO share many of the tasks he mentioned.
soundguy
Of course the OP would probably use his tractor for many tasks not envisioned at the start of his analysis. I suspect most of us did that, especially starting a new enterprise. Why is it that it must be assumed that all those tasks will demand larger more powerful tractors?
Until or unless further requirements analysis is done BY THE OP, not bystanders, we nor he may ever be able to make a good decision to cover reality as it will inevitably unfold. So, we should be somewhat circumspect in reading into the sceanario our personal prejudices when they do not relate to the original question.
If someone can say for a fact that a small cattle operation, whatever that is, consists of the following tasks and lists them, then we can suggest ways of meeting those requirements. Unfortunately, there are different versions of a small cattle operation. You can run stockers, or you can go cow-calf, or feed lot, or... I am guilty of assuming he doesn't want to run a feed lot. Any evidence he does? From his post I gather he is likely to be thinking cow-calf but stockers is a definite possibility. either way I think I have a fair handle on what that entails having been running and currently running a small cow-calf operation and being familiar with a stocker op.
I am not devaluing ANYONE'S suggestions as to how much tractor it takes to do what they do or propose the OP may do. Where I take exception is in assuming facts not in evidence and that because in someone's experience they need xx HP to bull a yy foot wide batwing to complete a job 1/2 hour before they start that a similar tractor will be a good fit for the OP. I realize we all approach a problem with our own backgrounds and prejudices (smacks of having only a hammer so every job looks like a nail) but we can't reasonably recast the problem from his statements into whatever best fits a commentator's experience and bias without departing from service to the OP (supposed reason for participating in this thread.)
Lets give the deceased equine a rest from our sadism, what say?
If the OP surfaces again (hopefully he will) he may have the results of more analysis to share with us so we can give more accurate assistance to him instead of bantering back and forth to fill the dead air.
Unless someone insists on picking at the scab, lets let this heal over and go on.
Pat
