Advice on smallerish tractor for the woods

yeah I like my older Kubota with gears better than new ones hydro. 2 forwards 1 reverse 4 speed simple... trying to make tractors automatic

 

but if filled to 75% , yes it won't compress but it squishes it up to the top of the tire in the void. and maybe the air space is not enough still?

 

MF, IH, JD

several 2 letter names including the red ones!


Edit: you were talking model numbers not Brands

 

Found one for you Gasifier http://www.cahabatractor.com/used-products.php?id=332

 

I bought a yanmar grey model several years back. To serve Bushhoging duty and some grass cutting duty. Also for food plots, woods road maintenence as well with box blade and bushhogging.

it's 24hp at engine. and 20hp pto. I use a 4 and 5 foot bushhog, that's about a 4.5ft wide disk harrow and a 6ft bushhog brand finish mower which is really to big for anything g but we'll maintained grass.

 

Those machines don't look very incline/hill friendly, but good economical option for bush hoging & disc work

 

Yea I probably wouldn't use it on a very steep hill. it's kind of freaky mowing side hill, especially the ditch bank and hill side along the highway. It slides sideways on a small hill. I definitely don't seem to be able to cut the hill sides that the DOT crews can cut.

I don't side hill much, all my woods roads either go up down hills or run the ridges

 

here is what 90% of my seat time consists of. that hill along the road side is what I try to cut. but where it's too steep I either go straight up or down or just cut the top and bottom and wait for the DOT crew to come through with that mower on the arm and hang over the edge. I did spray it with herbicide the end of this summer though.

 

Unless you have a Kioti or a rebranded Kioti like a Bobcat or McCormick. The hydro pedal is known to stick on some models.

 

There are millions of vehicles on the road that use a foot pedal for speed control.

 

They all can hurt/kill you.

Cvt's are more efficient and cause less operator fatigue. Getting them to be reliable has been the problem. And they are now.

When a dry tire squishes where does the air go?

If your going to do much pto work. Be sure to get a tractor with live pto.

 

Independent PTO is good too.

 

Other than my Cub Cadet lawn tractor I have absolutely no experience running a tractor with a foot pedal that is the only control of ground speed. That being said, i dont think I would care for it to much on a larger machine that is being used on rough terrain. My Oliver 1750 with the choice of 4 high range and 4 low range plus the hydro over and under gives me plenty of options. Just gotta be careful when the hydro aint in direct drive as it wont use engine compression to help slow the tractor down hill and pulling a heavy load. I hate to admit it but the set up I like best is on another old tractor under my care. A JD 302 diesel industrial loader tractor. 4 speed with a high-low range. Foward and reverse Shuttle shift on the left side of the dash and the standard throttle lever on the right. Then the foot pedal on the floor on the right to raise rpm's if need be when you start lugging down and need to put the cobs to it. To the best of my knowledge the only tractor ever built that would satisfy every ones needs was outlawed years ago. That was the Essex Tri Directional tractor. I believe there may still be one and only one of these ETD tractors left in exsistance and word has it, it is housed under heavy guard 1000 feet under ground at a location called Area 51. But you didnt hear it from me OK?

 

That is a nice one! And a "nice" price too! I've look around at those and would love one. But out of my budget. Something I consider is how many folks I can attract to it if I decide to sell it. The higher the price is the fewer people that are out there that can afford to buy it.

 

I am far from an expert, that is for sure. But I do have some real world experience with quite a few different pieces of machinery, and it's enough to help me get some chit done!

 

agreed it's a touch high
what brought me there was this B3300SU http://www.cahabatractor.com/used-products.php?id=328
I'm noticing the closer I go towards Birmingham(city/suburbia) the used machines come down to reasonable levels
4700 with bad dash/no hour meter 2001 John Deere 4700 - Compact Utility Tractors - Pelham, AL
another low hour B3300SU 2010 Kubota B3300SU - Compact Utility Tractors - Athens, AL

 

There are a lot of nice machines out there. If I had Stinny 's money I might buy this.

VERY NICE JOHN DEERE 5055E 4 X 4 LOADER TRACTOR ONLY 193 HOURS | eBay

 

how old is the 193 hour machine? that's nothing.

With my son I don't get that much use out of it as we didn't leave home much and I take care of him a lot on weekends so I don't get to the farm as much. I put about 25 hours a year. But that still is 100 hours every 4 years.

 

Never saw one parked in the barn paying for itself.