Don't buy a bigger tractor than you need.

[Yotekiller]

A small machine on anything over 10 acres isn’t much fun, no matter what your uses.

I will have to disagree. I think your uses dictate the tractor you need, not the size of your property. I have well over 10 acres and my 2502 does everything I need it to do. I don't mow with it but do till deer plots and a large yearly garden and it handles those fine. It brings huge trees out of the woods with the grapple, it moves massive amounts of brush at a time, it dug a 30x50' hole for our swimming pool, it clears several hundred feet of blacktop driveway with no issues. I made a trail through a certain section of my woods that was steep hills and most guys would have never even attempted with their tractor, The 2502 was stable and did it perfectly.
But with that said, there are times I think about a MX series, I just hate the emissions. But some day I may buy an MX and delete it. I would like to have the extra lifting capacity but I have some giant logs still to deal with.

 

[McMXi]

But some day I may buy an MX and delete it.

You would not be disappointed.

 

[airbiscuit]

I will have to disagree. I think your uses dictate the tractor you need, not the size of your property. I have well over 10 acres and my 2502 does everything I need it to do. I don't mow with it but do till deer plots and a large yearly garden and it handles those fine. It brings huge trees out of the woods with the grapple, it moves massive amounts of brush at a time, it dug a 30x50' hole for our swimming pool, it clears several hundred feet of blacktop driveway with no issues. I made a trail through a certain section of my woods that was steep hills and most guys would have never even attempted with their tractor, The 2502 was stable and did it perfectly.
But with that said, there are times I think about a MX series, I just hate the emissions. But some day I may buy an MX and delete it. I would like to have the extra lifting capacity but I have some giant logs still to deal with.

Your L2502 is 2 frame sizes up from a BX series. I think you would be less happy doing your tasks with a BX.

 

[Yotekiller]

Your L2502 is 2 frame sizes up from a BX series. I think you would be less happy doing your tasks with a BX.

That's why I said choose the tractor for your intended use, not amount of acres. I put in months of research on what I "needed" at a minimum to accomplish my tasks. The L series fit the bill because it was more about tractor weight and lift capacity for me and not about HP. If my land was all field and I was mowing it, the L series would not have been chosen.