Tractor implements-good brands,bad brands?

I would not buy new unless you are going to use it immediately.

I would not buy a 3pt post hole digger until you have hand dug a hole. How much rock do you have? Does the soil go down three feet? If alot of rock and shallow topsoil then don't waste your money on a post hole digger. You will be using a pick and shovel anyway. If you really need to dig a lot of holes get a hydraulic post hole digger that mounts on your load so you can push down on the digger. 3pt diggers using gravity just spin on the rock instead of digging. I'll sell you mine....

I would not buy a box blade. How often would you need that? Are you constantly landscaping? Barrow one from a neighbor as needed. Get a cheap used plain scrapper blade for light snow and driveway stone leveling. I like to use my field cultivator with a 2x12 board inserted between the row of tines as a cheap box blade. But mostly I use the field cultivator as a cultivator.....

I would not buy a mower either just yet...figure out what type of mower you need. I found out after I purchased a good commercial grade zero turn mower, I rarely need to use the 3pt. rough cut mower. I sold the 3pt finishing mower right away. Never used it because hard to mow around trees and on hillsides. I did buy used haybine and used sickle mower for making hay. Much more useful than a brush mower.

I would buy a used disc for gardening/farming. Not one of the light weight 3pt new models. But a pull type two-row four gang type.

my two cents

I go to actions for stuff I don't have to have right away. You can find some good deals there...

If you have some spare money, buy a tiller instead of a disc. After using a tiller, I will never hook up the disc again. (I guess it's for sale if you want it...) Makes a pretty garden!

http://stores.ebay.com/Corriher-Implement

Here is the place I bought my tractor. It looks like they have some better prices than what you were quoted...

Woods, Bushhog, Danauser, Rhino, Bhuler, and John Deere would be the brands I'd look for but for lighter use or less stones (we grow a good crop of rock every year) most of the rest will do very well.

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Are you familiar with Godley Auction---They have a Place in Orangeburg, but sale in SC and NC. They sale Alot of farm equipment----I wish I had of checked them out before I bought my new tractor. I could have saved $1000. Their address is www.godleyauction.com There is a sale in Orangeburg this Saturday Morning. Check them out. Randy

No but I just went to their website.
We also just received another quote and this dealer is giving us a VERY good price on the tractor several thousand dollars less than the other dealers.

From reading here and elsewhere we really should get a good rotary cutter with a slip clutch and stump jumper,the other implements could wait until we can find them used.

Thanks for that tip because I had been looking at Northern Tools for stuff.

Howdy,
I've got all those implements your talking about. King Kutter box blade is fine. Linebauch post hole digger is great (built two barns and fenced 80 acres with it). My concern is the brush hog. I have a King cutter 5 footer. I cleared many acres with it cutting heavy brush. The blade and gearbox are fine, but the decking has about had it. I have had to weld it 5 or more times (that could be part of the problem.... I got a "C" in shop ) (Actually, its never failed at a weld). The darn stuff just splits. I would get one if I wasn't going to do any heavy brush cutting, but my next brush cutter will be a bushhog

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Purchase the attachments as you need them OR as you find a really great price on them. The reason things like box blades are so plentiful used is that so many people (me included) buy them and seldom need them more than once IF at all.

Augers come in handy, but once your fenced and cross fenced they sit.

Bush hogs are useful, depending on how often you need to mow AND how intricately you have fenced and cross fenced your land. I only have 7 acres and it is fenced and crossfenced into approx 1 to 1 1/2 acre paddocks for sheep. Its easier for me to fire up the DR Field and Brush Mower to Hog down a paddock than it is to try to get the tractor in and out with ever increasingly small runs as I mow in circles. Since I rotate the sheep from paddock to paddock I don't need to mow each but once a year and the DR works fine.

My back blade works fine for road maintenance. For road building I'd suggest having someone with a dozer with a tilt blade do it for you and crown the road properly. A properly crowned road doesn't require near the maintenance that a flat road does. Something I have found useful is a landscape rake. Its great for spreading gravel as the gravel filters through the rake and makes a better and quicker spread. I use mine about 3X as much as the blade.

Make sure your tractor has power steering and a Hydraulic bucket. If the bucket comes with "down Hydraulics" (most don't) its way better.