Food plot tractors

I feel like my best option is a new ride. Or newer. That things been sitting since early 2000
 
K9kodi said:
I feel like my best option is a new ride. Or newer. That things been sitting since early 2000
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How deep is your wallet? They'll sell you whatever you want.

We stuck with the 26 hp cause it is a small place and whatnot. I find that it works good, but we aren't pulling huge discs - running 4 ft tiller about 3 times around to get a decent seed bed.
 
I’m thinking 75 max and 50-60 minimum. It’s 1000 acre farm, couple hundred acres of pasture. Im gonna take a stab at Christmas trees, food plots, gotta do bush hogging, maintaining old logging roads as well.
 
K9kodi said:
I’m thinking 75 max and 50-60 minimum. It’s 1000 acre farm, couple hundred acres of pasture. Im gonna take a stab at Christmas trees, food plots, gotta do bush hogging, maintaining old logging roads as well.
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If you’re looking to make a profit. Remember you have 5-6 years before those tress will be harvestable. Dont dive into something with a huge payment without an income for a while.

Also think about mowing your Christmas tree rows. I was looking to start trees on my property, a lot of what I read said 8-10’ rows. After a couple years that rows start to get pretty narrow. Getting a tractor that size down the rows will be tough.

I run a 6’ brush hog behind my 55 hp tractor. It doesn’t phase it. My 10’ transport disc and my 3 bottom plow will bring it to its knees. I think if you’re looking to brush hog you could get away with a 45 hp sub compact and make better use of it. For simulate money get a cab and a loader. Get a 10-12’ flex wing mower to mow those big pastures. Just my $0.02.


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I was thinking cab, but not sure I wanna be in the woods w a cab.

I’m gonna plant some Christmas trees and just see how it goes. Looking for some vendors of saplings. If they do well over the year I’ll plant another acre or two and If tbings continue to go well, I’ll keep playing w another acre until the first group is resdy
 
I have used both a 45hp JD and now a 72hp Case (cat 2) at our 330 acre farm (10 acres plots, 60 tillable, 4-5 miles of log roads/trails in woods). In my opinion 70 hp is a sweet spot, it's not too big but big enough to bush hog anything, lift logs off trails and pull/turn any plot implement you have.. I have most including a heavy no till drill.

It would be a dream to have a cab with a/c but in my situation it wouldn't make it a 100 yards inside the woods.
 
Tedhunts said:
I have used both a 45hp JD and now a 72hp Case (cat 2) at our 330 acre farm (10 acres plots, 60 tillable, 4-5 miles of log roads/trails in woods). In my opinion 70 hp is a sweet spot, it's not too big but big enough to bush hog anything, lift logs off trails and pull/turn any plot implement you have.. I have most including a heavy no till drill.

It would be a dream to have a cab with a/c but in my situation it wouldn't make it a 100 yards inside the woods.
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I too have 4-5 miles of trails and 350acre farm. My cab has been beat to hell.

AND

I would get a cab again every time.

Often I hear people without a cab justify why they don’t have one. I’ve never once met someone with a cab that says they wish they didn’t have one.
 
omicron1792 said:
I too have 4-5 miles of trails and 350acre farm. My cab has been beat to hell.

AND

I would get a cab again every time.

Often I hear people without a cab justify why they don’t have one. I’ve never once met someone with a cab that says they wish they didn’t have one.
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I see that point. But I’m scared shitless to take a cab into the woods on the trail for fear of damaging it. Maybe I wouldn’t damage it, but a utility tractor will be used for utility when I get it, not in a field, so I have my doubts, but I’m also coming from a place of never owning one myself and only running cab-less
 
K9kodi said:
I see that point. But I’m scared shitless to take a cab into the woods on the trail for fear of damaging it. Maybe I wouldn’t damage it, but a utility tractor will be used for utility when I get it, not in a field, so I have my doubts, but I’m also coming from a place of never owning one myself and only running cab-less
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It gets beat up for sure. But just scratches on paint and such. The air stays cold, I don’t get hit by the branches, and I’ve never been stung by a bee on my tractor.
 
I distinctly recall running over a giant ground bee nest in my cab tractor with the ac blowing cold and the radio on, thinking there is no way I’m ever going without a cab again. Same thought when plowing snow or moving firewood or mowing in the heat. I use mine in the woods all the time. 60hp Mahindra.
 
You guys really don’t worry about branches as shit breaking glass?

Since im
Not buying new I wouldn’t pass up on a good priced tractor w a cab bc it has a cab, but I’m not sure I’ll spend extra money to get one, if that makes sense. I gotta sell the camper first
 
K9kodi said:
You guys really don’t worry about branches as shit breaking glass?

Since im
Not buying new I wouldn’t pass up on a good priced tractor w a cab bc it has a cab, but I’m not sure I’ll spend extra money to get one, if that makes sense. I gotta sell the camper first
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No, not at all. Take the time to widen your trails a bit with a brush hog and loader just as you would with any tractor to keep from trashing it and you're good. This seems to be an issue people think they will have, but I've yet to see when comparing cab to open station (I've had both). If a branch or other obstacle was hitting the windshield, it would probably be hitting you in the face on an open station tractor, and it would certainly be hitting the ROPS (which can be a great way to do a wheelie if you're into that kind of thing). It's not like the cab sticks out wider than the rear wheels and it isn't any taller than a ROPS in most cases. Again, push the field edges back and keep trails maintained and your fine. I see the cab as another layer of safety in situations like this as well. You are more protected from crap flying out of your rotary mower, a branch snapping off up high, etc.

Lots of people talk themselves into open stations becuase they are cheaper and they never realize how much more comfortable they would be in any adverse conditions if they had bought a tractor with a cab.
 
Cabs are nice no doubt. I am running a Kubota L5460 without cab. My 80 acres has lots of trails with lots of trees. The branches would raise cane on a cab. Also when oak trees go down getting to them with a cab is a no go. Just have to put up with getting swatted once in a while by branches. Oh and an occasional bee sting. Only time I wish I had a cab is when doing 4 food plots.
 
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