Garden Tractors and Implements

[Tapout]

I would love to have a sticky for Garden tractors and implements.

[Tapout]

What kind of tractors does everyone use?

I personally am a John Deere fan I have been thinking of up sizing to a 1026R its a subcompact 1 family tractor with 3 point and 540 rear pto with bucket.

[AlittleSalt]

I have a Case International 284.

[noseriously]

JD 2305. What a work horse.

[Tracydr]

I just bought a chain harrow off Amazon. Very versatile for seeding, smoothing, breaking up manure and especially, for smoothing the driveway. We just pull it with the jeep for now, although I'm considering hooking up my pony as she is being trained to drive.

[SummerSky]

Since I garden over at my parent's farm, I get to use all the fun equipment they have! Although sometimes I *do* have to use them for they were bought for and help out around the farm

For the garden, I use their JD sub-compact tractor with what I believe is a four foot till. It takes twenty minutes to deep till all my plots (which aren't huge, but aren't tiny either).

I have no idea what I'm going to do with myself when we buy a house I can have a garden in... I'm so spoiled by all the toys I can't afford...

[Worth1]

You can always rent these things for a lot less money.

If you are only going to use it for a short time a year it isn't economically feasible to make payments on something just sitting around.


Worth

[madddawg]

I made this sled to level out the ground after I till, Works a lot easier then a rake, but it packs it down. I can live with that tho! This year I am going to try the end of a roll of concrete wire.

[Worth1]

Originally Posted by madddawg

I made this sled to level out the ground after I till, Works a lot easier then a rake, but it packs it down. I can live with that tho! This year I am going to try the end of a roll of concrete wire.

Why not get a length of chain link fence with a pipe tied to the back and front and drag it around.

Works like a chain harrow.

[noinwi]

My FIL just purchased an older Kubota M5500DT for this property. When we got back here 2 years ago from Wisconsin, we were anxious to start cleaning up the property as FIL had let it go for the 10 years we were gone. He had also let the equipment go to the point of being unusable. It's been a very frustrating 2 years watching the blackberries and alders further encroach on the house. There is 15 acres here, mostly wetland, all clay...hard as rock in the summer, all slime in the winter and it is all on a slope. FIL is developing dementia along with other health problems and it has been a difficult time searching for a tractor that can maintain this property while he is still able to understand why it is needed. He can't remember how the other equipment got "broke". There is a small old Ford tractor that has a frozen motor and it is in an area where DH cannot work on it, but now he will be able to drag it to the shop. There is a large bulldozer that was run with very low oil pressure that can still be used for very short periods of time but DH only recently got it running again. This time of year it really tears up the ground.
Along with the "new" tractor, they got a bunch of farming implements...a brush hog, a cultivator that looks like it has a bunch of treble hooks on it(I know nothing about equipment)and a disk tiller(?). Anyway, we are so looking forward to finally being able to clean this property up...there is light at the end of the tunnel.
We also have a small JD riding mower that needs work that has a little blade for the front that DH says is better than the newer JD riding mower.
I can post pics of the Kubota at a later time if anyone is interested. They're in DH's phone and not loaded into the computer yet.

[Tapout]

Ahh sorry to hear that about your FIL.

I dont know Worth renting isnt the same as owning it. With Sub Compact tractors like the JD 1026R you can mow in the summer run wood chippers move mulch help carry split wood roto till your garden run a wood spliter basically any 3 point attachment that runs on the standard 540 rpm pto. In the winter snow blow push snow carry bales of hay feed ect clean out stalls.

I could go on and on.

[Worth1]

Originally Posted by Tapout

Ahh sorry to hear that about your FIL.

I dont know Worth renting isnt the same as owning it. With Sub Compact tractors like the JD 1026R you can mow in the summer run wood chippers move mulch help carry split wood roto till your garden run a wood spliter basically any 3 point attachment that runs on the standard 540 rpm pto. In the winter snow blow push snow carry bales of hay feed ect clean out stalls.

I could go on and on.

The key word is (if) it seems as though these things have became a status symbol for some folks here.
My neighbor up the street has a nice new Kubota that just sits there in the weather.
It has the backhoe and front end loader on it.
He has about as much use for the thing as he does the big 4X4 truck he has, which is also a status symbol here.
These things never get off the blacktop, all they do is burn up fuel.
Now me on the other hand if I had one of these small tractors I would be on it every day.

What I really need is a full size backhoe and a medium sized dozer.

Worth

[Tapout]

Originally Posted by Worth1

The key word is (if) it seems as though these things have became a status symbol for some folks here.
My neighbor up the street has a nice new Kubota that just sits there in the weather.
It has the backhoe and front end loader on it.
He has about as much use for the thing as he does the big 4X4 truck he has, which is also a status symbol here.
These things never get off the blacktop, all they do is burn up fuel.
Now me on the other hand if I had one of these small tractors I would be on it every day.

What I really need is a full size backhoe and a medium sized dozer.

Worth

Statis for me na its utilitary. Anything that helps me get things done. I know the type of people you are talking about I have them in my neighborhood as well. I live next to my familys old farm that was torn down by my aunt and rebuilt into I dont know what. 6,000ft house 6 car garage with another 4k foot detached garage. It's hard to see the old farm gone but I still have access to the land.

[hoefarmer]

You may want to check out www.TractorbyNet

[AlittleSalt]

While I can understand some having tractor envy, I look at ours as just another tool that does the jobs needed. It sure comes in handy repairing the 1,300' driveway, mowing, and rerouting the dry wash creek that used to be right beside our house. We're going to use it for moving soil for making a 15' x 50' raised garden this spring. It would definitely make things harder on us without it.