What workers No body wants to work. I will include pictures. Was kinda hoping for people to say how it will have no value and I could do some thing else. Thanks
My experience with tractors goes something like this. It's much cheaper to buy a tractor that's configured the way you want/need it to be than it is to buy one that isn't and start modifying things. Of course there are various attachments that you may add over time, but make sure it already has a loader, AG tires (make sure the tires have never had calcium chloride in them), hydraulic circuits you want, and the load carrying capacity to perform as intended. I wouldn't go out and spend $16K on a tractor just to use for firewood and then justify it with the buy once, cry once logo, but I would make sure that I bought something big enough to do what I wanted to do with it AND new enough that it was still somewhat serviceable.
A number of years ago I needed a winch to drag logs up embankments and hills. None are available then or to day. So I built one. Total cost under $500. I contacted some fabrication shops to discover they would build to my specs for $50,000 to $70,000. The winch has proven to be valuable from time to time. When it is needed there is nothing else that will do. This particular situation looks just like it. My cost to build a tractor well under $1500 but once I start there is no substitute. It will likely take me a whole summer of free time to get it operational. I have a crawler with a four in one bucket that moves logs just fine but it hardly ever gets used. It takes several hours to get it loaded on to a trailer then a day to transport it to a location then another day to dead head it to a site. Total turn around time is a week if all goes smooth. The USFS will not allow me to leave it any where for more than over night and it leaves a huge foot print. When it is needed it is valuable. My skid steer Bobcat is much faster but it still leaves a pretty good foot print. It however can be put on one of many trailers and hauled with a pick up to where ever. It can not be left any where that some one could notice it. It however will not pull a load up a hill though. I can buy a garden size tractor with a loader bucket but that is it. Tractors in general do not have operational brakes especially garden tractor sizes. Kabota type all wheel drive tractors seem like the closest thing to reality. They in many cases could be driven on to the back of a normal pickup but still would be unable to haul a laod up a hill with out the aid of a winch. So a tractor with great brakes loader capable small foot print and winch would have to be fabricated. A garden tractor that leaves a small foot print much easier to obscure and would have the capacity to pull a load up a steep hill seems like the best option. Hopefully some one will find flaws in my logic and talk me out of it before I start. Thanks
Is that a 1025r? I love mine!
Beautiful country. RonOut clearing some areas
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1025r is a fantastic tractor, mine is a 2015.
