opinion/gas tractor

[brian mcf]

hi guys,there is a local guy selling a gas tractor,cub,7254,4wd.hydr,gas,2cylnder,kawsaki motor,610 loader,says its capable of lifting 900lbs.has 6ft.blade.4ft.rototiller,6ft.rear mower.tractor is 2005.any input. 8.500.oo thanks brian 400 hrs.

[agmantoo]

For not much more I can buy a nearly new kubota 4 wheel drive 34 HP diesel with loader. I personally do not like gas tractors and particularly very small ones. You can do a small task with a large tractor but a small tractor and large job is frustrating. Should you elect to resale the machine in the future the market is not great but you can always sell a 30 to 40 HP machine.

[Windy in Kansas]

Originally Posted by agmantoo

You can do a small task with a large tractor but a small tractor and large job is frustrating.

Up to a point---a large tractor can be used for a small task. Roto-tilling with a large tractor is often hard or impossible to do. They are geared way too fast whereas the small compacts have creeper gears.

A large tractor will usually be much wider so a roto-tiller won't be able to till out the tire tracks. Well unless you buy a really big roto-tiller for a high dollar price.

If doing any market gardening you would really have to plan around the tread width not only for the wide tires, but because of planting and cultivating rows fairly close together. Turning a large tractor around at the end of rows takes a lot of additional area as well and makes for inefficient field use.

I do fully agree that using a small tractor for a large job is frustrating. In 2000 I worked on a highway by-pass project operating heavy equipment, mostly a pay loader moving rock. Going back to using the tiny front end loader on my 1720 Ford compact was really frustrating at times.

So, up to a point any tractor will do but for some jobs buy appropriately.

[farminghandyman]

Is not some what saying you can use any hammer for any job, a tack hammer does not work very well to break concrete, and a sledge hammer does a lousy job for driving tacks.

what your looking at is a tack driver for a tractor, and if your acreage is small and your needs are light, (basically a lawn tractor on steroids), it may be perfect for your needs,

but again the 30 to 45 hp Kubota or small Deere's are not a lot bigger in frame size, and you would nearly be doubling the HP, (yes more money) small tractors are expensive, but if you have much at all to do, loader work or pulling, tilling you will appreciate the more horse power, expecily in a PTO situation tilling or mowing with a "bush hog type mower", running a small baler or what ever,

I have a "100 hp" farm tractor and on a 10' wide "bush hog type" mower on it some times it is all it can handle, My "lawn tractor" is 16 hp twin cylinder, my guess is the engine in the tractor your looking at is jsut over 20 hp, I know my lawn tractor is not that much over powered.
And when using a loader you want some weigh and size under the loader.


Again it is all in the use of it,

the only way I would even consider buying it is to see if the guy will let you try it our for a few days or even run it on his place for a few hrs, mowing, tilling and loading and see if it will do what you want it to or expect it to.
and get a ROPS (roll bar on it).

If that is a 6' PTO powered mower it is way to big for the tractor unless your only mowing off less than very small amount of grass (my guess less than a few inches). a four foot mower would be plenty for that small of unit. and a 6 foot blade would be a load on it, (again I have a pull type box blade I use behind my tractor 100hp and it is only 8' wide and at times I can get in trouble with it, The tractor is not sized to the equipment he has, for it, IMO.

[Beeman]

Sounds like an expensive lawn mower.
What exactly are you wanting to do with it?

[Bearfootfarm]

http://www.compacttractorreview.com/...254_13254.aspx

These people didnt much care for it

[brian mcf]

thanks guys,thats all i need to see. brian