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Ok guys I know its kind of off topic but I need some guidance. The wife and I are looking at possibly buying a new place that sits on 10 acres. The house sits around 800' off the road. Im looking for some advice on compact utility tractors. I know there are several brands with several different attachments. I would need one with a mower deck and loader.
Is a 3 point attachment from 1 brand going to fit a 3 point system on another brand (kubota back blade, will it fit a new holland CUT 3 point system).
What is a high price and what is a steal price? Everything I see around here is around the 15k range for loader and deck.
come on guys educate me
Jeff
How much room do you have in your wallet?
If you live near lake Erie you want a rear mount Pronovost or an Allied/farm king snow caster which must be wider than the rear tires. You want V bar rear chains and loaded rear tires as well as the turf, R4 tires or Ag tires/R2 will get gummed up with wet snows and are worthless on ice.
Belly mowers are more trouble than thier worth with any utility tractor.
(YOU HAVER TO CLEAN THEM)
A Caroni 59 inch or JD 25A 7 foot flailmower will provide you with the ability to mow brush
and fine turf with no adjustments.
Do you know what horsepower you want???? A compact utility tractor will be hamstrung in heavy wet snows and you only want to use a front end loader to scoop snow NOT PLOW IT.
The more horsepower you have the better and the longer a tractor will last and will be under much less
strain. Some folks have the smallest Kubota; the Kubota 1860 with much longer driveways than yours and have snow chains, loaded rear tires, rear munted snow blowers, and heated cabs.
The KUbota Snow blowers are built by RAD in Canada and The Pronovost snow casters are better in my opinion-yes I own a JD snow blower built by RAD and It is not built well in my opinion where the pronovosts are built in Canada.
The other thing you have to under stand is that a snow caster that weighs more is better built because the steel is heavier and the welds are better/thicker.
You can obtain a compact utility tractor like the Kubota 2370 with a hydro transmission and heated cab and a five foot wide rear mount snow caster from Pronovost for reasonable money.
There is no best price or steal price! your paying threough the nose unless its fire damaged as new!
Three point implements fit all three point hitches.
You will want a front end loader and a rear mount snow blower because that will give you the most benefit per dollar spent.
The front end loaders on most sub compacts pop on and off after a few minutes work when needed.
A hydro transmission tractor will allow you to remove snow with a rear mount snow caster by simply swiveling the seat and pushing the reverse pedal and the snow caster will act as a brake when stopping so no issues there.
The "Miserable" problem with the Kubota sub compacts and compact utility tractors is the low idle as it is detuned/the timing is advanced to reduce the emmisions at the tail pipe per the EPA and the vibration will go all the way into the steering wheel at high idle. Its an easy fix to change the idle back to spec though.
For the money you may better off going to an on farm dispersal auction as the tractor will have been owned by the farm owner-font look at auctions that have a entire herd of machinery in one auction barn!!!!
You can also find a good buy on
www.tractorhouse.com as long as you find an implement dealer that has excess inventory.