Posted by M Compton on July 10, 2013 at 21:54:11 from (75.88.84.115):
For the last 14 years I have lived on an acreage...but fairly small ones. We have some horses, and really have never needed a tractor. Not that one would not have been nice...we have used small hay trailer to move round bales around the property, and fenced in for the horses all except a very small yard that we could mow with a riding mower.
Soon we are moving to a new place in Oklahoma. It will have 105 acres total. 90 of the acres are very nice clean pasture. 15 acres are a bit of a mess. It is apparent that someone has just grazed it for a few years, never mowed or anything, and all thats happened is the horses have eaten the grass, and allowed weeds to take over.
So now, I need a tractor. I have a fairly small budget. Maybe $3000. What I am going to be using it for primarily is to brush hog down the weeds. Maybe run a small sprayer? We will also pull a harrow because there is a riding arena that we need to maintain. The biggest thing I would probable ever need to do is spray the whole acreage, or perhaps pull a manure spreader or something like that? Lastly, there might be a drylot that would need to be scraped from time to time. I dont see the need for moving big round bales of Hay. Should be able to pasture the horses year around and if I need to hay we will use square bales.
I dont know much about tractors. I know of the Ford 8N. Seems like those are probably one of the most plentiful and therefor cost effective tractors, but I am not sure it is powerful enough. I am really pretty good mechanically once I know what the issues are. To me a tractor should be super easy to work on compared to modern cars/trucks.
Will it really mater if I get a gas, or a diesel? Do I need live PTO? (I dont know what that is, but I have seen the term...lol)
I dont know what I dont know, so any advice or pointing me in the right direction would be awesome. Thanks.
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