Posted by mikestilly on December 28, 2015 at 09:16:01 from (98.224.175.114):
I could use some advice from those with more experience then me which is everyone :) I'm buying my first tractor and will be taking my father inlaw with me who is pretty experienced with tractors to help me check it out. As my level experience I can tell you I've never even driven a tractor before so I'm as green as they come. The reasons for purchasing one are the following:
- Own a horse farm need for moving manure
- Earth moving for building up low spots and other projects
- Pulling a dump cart
- Regular lawn cutting for approximately 2 acres of our property
- Maintaining our backfield for grass for grazing our horses, part of our backfield needs to be tilled and reseeded and we plan to do that next year.
- Brush hogging and preparing currently unused backfield for a grass field for grazing horses
I found a Ford 3000 Diesel which looks to be in great condition. It comes with a front end loader and a small bucket (1/4 yard) which I would want to replace with a 1 yard bucket. It has 2800 hours with a broken hours meter but that's pretty common from what I read so I have no idea what the true hours is. It comes with a nice finishing mower and has turf tires.
My questions are is this a good tractor for what I need? They are asking $5000 is that priced right? Will I be able to use it as is with the turf tires or will I definitely need to get another set of tractor tires? Where can I find tires and how much and how to I change them over? Changing the tires seems to be a huge task given the size. Also goofy question but it seems if I cut the lawn with it some tighter areas just cannot be cut with it and will need to do it with a lawnmower right? Anything I should know going to look at it? Any and all advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
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