Hi, I have two tractors on 13 acres. Ones a Oliver 1755D (86 HP) with 3 point hitch. Weighs 12,000lbs +/- with liquid in the rears and 1000 lbs in front. I use it for everything that you mentioned except the backhoe, loader work and on the small manure spreader. It would work fine for the loader work if I had one but the backhoe work I don't think I'd try. Too many stories of broken frames with backhoe use. My second tractor is a M Farmall without a 3 point. It pulls my spreader, some of the smaller tree trunks, occasionally the hay rake and mostly the utility trailer when I'm cutting trees. I use the Oliver for pulling tree stumps up to about 10-12 inches. Hint- cut them as high as you can comfortably do so and hook the chain or strap as high as possible to increase the leverage on the stump. Which brings me to the question of how many tree are you looking at removing? All 40 acres? If so you have YEARS of work ahead of you with using only one tractor. Take the advice from the others and hire it out to someone with a track loader or dozer and excavator in the 50K lb range or bigger. They can get it done in a weeks time AND clean up the roots. But the bill will be in 10k+ range for 10hrs a day at $140 an hour for 7 days. Be really pushing it to get 40 acres done in a week though depending on tree size and terrain. But then again you wouldn't be clearing all 40 acres. Anyway, as a poor acreage owner myself I'd have to agree that a 'one size fits all' tractor isn't feasible. My '74 1755 cost $5500 5 years ago. And if I could swing it I'd get a reasonable sized skid-steer for the rest of the work. One with a heated and cooled cab -for example a Deere, Bobcat or Case. I know Bobcat has ALL kinds of rent-able attachments that will fill just about any need. HTH Have fun searching.
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