MX series any good?

[jyoutz]

I agree. But with the HUGE surge in popularity of IBC tanks for homeowner use, why release a new tractor/loader model that cannot pick up one of the most common items on small/medium “homesteads” (how I hate that term)?

Tractors and loaders are matched by weight class and lifting capacity, I would not want to lift more than a ton with my MX. I’d want a heavier tractor to lift more weight.

 

[Shawn T. W]

Maybe you would help me understand something: If you're not going to use or rent out 13 acres of SW Missouri Ozarks field why don't you let it grow into grass meadow, which would then support [scrub] trees, then decent trees? The grass would die back, you brush-hog the scrub, and are left with nice trees. Or mow it all and plant fruit trees?

I'm sure there are reasons I in Wisconsin do not understand though would like to understand.

I want to maintain the fields, cut around 4" tall, let grow up three weeks and cut again, I don't like the "scrub brush look" ... That's what I had when I bought it three years ago ... The back 7 acres.

I now have 3 apple, and one peach tree planted, and a whole bunch of elderberry ... I also use a tote for watering my trees ... No law that says it needs to be full ... My little overgrown lawn mower only can pick up 50 gallons at a time ...

The front 6 acres was an established hayfield ... Last year after the first cutting which was thin and weedy, the local ag extension guy recommended that cutting it at 5" every 3-4 weeks would get rid of the weeds producing more seeds ...

But by fall I resorted to buying a 12' sprayer and just killed them all!

Had a good hay crop of excellent quality this early summer, but nobody wanted to pay for it, so had to sell it at the going rate of weedy hay ... I'm not gonna sell weeds, or good hay as weeds.

Back yard now looks like this ...

 

[WigglyPiggly]

Tractors and loaders are matched by weight class and lifting capacity, I would not want to lift more than a ton with my MX. I’d want a heavier tractor to lift more weight.

meh

My tractor weighs close to 7000lbs as it currently sits without the ballast box. It can handle an extra 200lbs on the front to make life so much easier for (absolute guess) 70% of owners.

 

[PaulL]

So, coming back to the OP's situation, where would you be trailering the MX too? It looks like it's 3700 lbs without the loader. The loader does come off reasonably easily. Would you need the loader when you trailer it, could you trailer the loader separately the few times you need it? If you don't load the tires it'll be easier to trailer, just means finding another way of ballasting it.....and given you're mainly mowing, filled tires are a recipe for a hard ride....empty tires probably make it more comfortable.

It is of course your choice to do whatever you want, but I'm just checking you've looked carefully at all your options. Once you have an MX with a loader, you'll wonder why you'd have ever considered trying to live with the SCUT. When I moved from a BX to a B I got a lot more done....a step to an MX would be amazing.

 

[WI_Hedgehog]

@Shawn T. W : Admittedly it does look nice.