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    Advice on new tractor purchase - MX6000, M7060, M5?

    (I’m still waiting on my M4D to be delivered, not a lot of concrete info on delivery date from the dealer so far…)
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    Advice on new tractor purchase - MX6000, M7060, M5?

    (I’m not @mcmxi but…) For me it’s the much nicer cab and related features for relatively not much more money. Messick’s has a video on the differences. The M4D seems like what you’d make after you took the years of learnings from producing M7060’s and decided to make a new version.
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    Advice on new tractor purchase - MX6000, M7060, M5?

    I skipped the creep speed kit, hopefully I don’t regret that.
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    Advice on new tractor purchase - MX6000, M7060, M5?

    Excellent point — I’ve got the air-ride seat on the quote.
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    Advice on new tractor purchase - MX6000, M7060, M5?

    Right now, I'm leaning towards the M4D; the creature comforts (especially being able to safely get my kid into the cab with me!) and bit of extra functionality/power are worth the ~$2000 difference. Haying is out of the question, I appreciate everyone's advice on that. I'll follow up with...
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    Advice on new tractor purchase - MX6000, M7060, M5?

    Thanks for the advice, much appreciated. Sounds like the smart move is to ditch any plans of doing hay myself. Glad to hear the Kubota dealer in Athens is top notch. The Kubota website only shows Ewald as the dealer around the Austin area (where I am); my experience with them so far has been...
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    Advice on new tractor purchase - MX6000, M7060, M5?

    Yes, poor choice of words on my part. I meant cut it and leave it, and stay on top of it so that the weeds stay down and the grass takes over. My plan was to avoid disturbing the topsoil as much as possible.
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    Advice on new tractor purchase - MX6000, M7060, M5?

    Good point on the flail not being able to make hay. The current state of the pasture (overgrown w/ wooly croton on top of bluegrass) is such that my plan is (probably) to shred it all and work it back into the soil for the year, which is why I was thinking flail over rotary. Then pick up the...
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    Advice on new tractor purchase - MX6000, M7060, M5?

    Thanks for the info and thought. That makes a lot of sense on the two-machine approach. I haven’t looked into digging with the FEL, thanks for the thread to pull on. Time to read more!
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    Advice on new tractor purchase - MX6000, M7060, M5?

    Hi, I’m looking to purchase my first tractor and could use a sanity check and advice. I have about 50 acres in Central Texas; 40 of which is fairly flat pasture, 10 of which is forested and rolls down to a substantial creek. In addition, I need to maintain 2500ft x 24ft of highway frontage on...