Here your tips and must have add ons… I just pulled the trigger on a John Deere 1025R … 54” front blower, loader, heated cab are the initial additions… I should have it next week… Quick background… I live on 20 acres of woods and will be doing food plots, blowing snow, moving stone, soil, compost… cutting trees for firewood… and I am sure lots of other things… pics to come so, let’s see yours and hear your tips! Sent from my iPhone using Bowhunting.com Forums
A little more than I need but she is a beaut! What year? Sent from my iPhone using Bowhunting.com Forums
We have two now, one at the house and another one to keep at the farm. The house is 6 acres and we got a Kubota L3901. I also use it at my local hunting properties for food plot work. It has been a great machine and we use it more than I thought we would for everything from food plot work to moving softener salt bags to the walkout basement doors behind the house. The farm is 100 acres and we hope to be adding to it soon, we purchased an open ROPS MX6000 for down there. I have about 4 acres of food plots there and I’ve used the tractor for all that and many other things. We have about a mile of trails and driveway and I use my box blade and rotary cutter to maintain all that. We are also enrolling our big field in a CRP border program and will use the tractor to maintain and mow that when needed. Overall both machines have been great. I hope at some point we’ll be able to move to the farm and if we do we’ll unload the L3901, I don’t need both of it weren’t for the distance. I do wish I had gotten a MX6000 cab model. It was brutal this year planting food plots in 90 degrees and it would be amazing in the winter too. My main advice is if you’re doing road work and maintaining ruts and crowning roads, get the rear hydraulic kit and a top/tilt kit installed at the dealer. I didn't do this and ended up installing myself later on the MX6000 and it was a pain in the you know what. I ended up with one float valve and two regular detent valves and now I can adjust pitch and angle on the fly without getting off the tractor. It cuts my time in almost half to grade out the roads and was well worth the $$.
A couple more things…. Get the quick hitch for your implements. There is nothing more frustrating than wrestling your implements in the hot/cold when you want to hook something up. Also get your rear tires loaded with liquid ballast. I would be surprised if you were able to lift more than a few hundred pounds with that tractor without the rear tires coming off the ground unless you have weight behind it plus the loaded tires. When it comes to tractors, there are very few scenarios where you won’t have enough power, but there are a lot of scenarios where there isn’t enough weight.
I love tractors, especially I like the John Deere 1025R! In the near future I want to buy one, but for now I just admire the pictures and here on the forum!
I’m old school. Have a fully restored Ferguson TO-20 with a back blade. Looking at buying some more implements this summer.
After years of open station tractors and eating lots of dust I finally spoiled myself with a new tractor with a cab. I wish I had done it years and years ago! I find a classic rock station on the radio and turn on the AC and put a favorite beverage in the cup holder and chill while I get my farming done. I have a 5' tiller, plow, blade, 3pt spreader, 12' disc and rotary mower. My next purchase will be a grain drill and I would like to upgrade to a 12' mower. It is a NH T4030, 76 hp with loader.
We bought a Kioti KL 6010. Plenty of power and still affordable. I wanted to buck up for the cab but my uncle is cheap and we were going in halfsies. Hydrostat robs some ponies but is super nice. Serves our needs on a 90-ish acre “farm”/ rec property. We have disc, wood splitter, 24” auger, tiller and a bush hog attachments. Basically a knock off Kubota that seems to be just about as well made. Saved $7k on compared to kubota and came with few more bells and whistles than the kubota.
Dave, We went with the cab as well.. just heated for the size I’m buying as a/c is not an option Sent from my iPhone using Bowhunting.com Forums
I just let my buddy borrow Rick James' tractor and plant the food plots for us. It's the perfect setup really.
Find a good farm tractor tire guy that does house calls. NOW! Make sure you have the best hydraulic hoes sleeves you can buy. Anytime you work soil or spread products hose the tractor thoroughly right after. P.S. Have fun...
No computerized anything to mess up a good time. All mechanical workings so I can work on it all myself
Tony, it's a 1984 model built in China. From the research, they were specifically made for working rice fields in Thiland? Hour meter is out but shows 10,000 + I think. Built like a tank.
Mahindra 1526. I have a rotary cutter, rototiller, blade, and this rear snowblower. Just picked up the snowblower this year from a friend. It's only 4' wide, so I welded on those wings to get it out past the tires. I hope it works.
Work her often and she'll keep you up front in the placing. Okay, but we did just get a New Holland this year. 75 horse, with cab and all the bells and whistles. Have the bucket, hay spear, disc's, plows, brush hog, etc. Using it for food plots and pastures. Future for haying.
How large of a property do you think that tractor would handle. We have 450ish. Mostly hardwoods, my current land management plan is to carve out about 25 acres of food plots .5-2 acres at a time to get about 25 total planted. the current tractor I’m looking at is a bobcat 5558 but I’m open to suggestions. The green is what I would be planting.
