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For your proposed use, I'd go with an older, much less expensive tractor. You can farm 3 acres and grade a road with almost anything down to a Farmall Super A, and an older tractor will be much less likely to disappear. A nice little Oliver 550 diesel could be had for 3 grand or so, and would work fine.
But between the two, I'd go with the Ford- probably a little better constructed rig (because its older), only enough hours to break it in, and 2/3 the money.
Somebody below wondered why someone was getting rid of such a low hour tractor (for its age)- Actually, that's not really "low hour", for that type of tractor. Lots of guys (like me) buy a new compact utility when we're middle aged because we've always wanted a new tractor, and can now finally afford it- not because we've got a lot of real work to use it for. We have horses- manure, pasture harrow, and general maintenance around the farm, and have only put a couple hundred hours on a JD 4010 (no, not THAT 4010) in 5 years. It sits in the barn all week in the winter, waiting for the spreader to fill up- then gets used all of 10 minutes to spread on Saturday.
And it gets sold 10 or 15 years later or so, with low hours, because we have eased on into geezerhood. Or possibly, into the lovely Shady Oaks Memorial Gardens.
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