I am pretty new here, just got my first tractor in late May B7500. I have be 4en going over the tractor itself fixing a bunch of stuff and mostly read here. I did quite a bit of research on some things to put the tractor to work on my 20 acre spot and with a good deal of patience, managed to score these goodies over the last couple months from CL or word of mouth locally.
Brush Hog - picked up a used Modern Equipment 4ft brush hog for $325. I think the model is Sunshine. I went over it and changed out the gear oil, put new blades on it and it really shreds. I have a 8 acre field that hasn't been hogged in three years and the trees are taller than I am. It is going through them like it's supposed to. I also learned that I hate brush hogging, but it is a necessary evil. I really got tired of begging the neighbors to do it for me and that's one of many reasons I got the tractor.
Box Blade - really nice find on this one - I got a Gannon Earthcavator 50 or 52" off a local for $375. So far I have used it on my long driveway (1/10 mile or so) to flatten and fill potholes and to fix spots where chickens had dug up the rocks or where people with two wheel drives had lost traction. This thing is awesome, so much you can do with it. I am hoping I can use the rippers setting as a kind plow to expand my garden spot and ready it for tilling.
Just got a Frontier 1150 rototiller off CL for $360 that I haven't even unloaded yet. The owner had it hooked up and it works fine, but he used it on a little sub compact green thingy, and had to reverse the pins on the lower attachments. Unfortunately, he also had bent the lower arms, but it can still be hooked up. I will want to somehow heat and bend back the lower connections and put it back how it is supposed to be...
Okay, well that's it. I am really surprised the amount of trouble one of these little tractors can get into. I hope to expand with some more stuff for gardening, such as cultivator, disks and hip buster, etc.
Thanks for looking. There isn't any kind of an intro section here. So thanks for all the help with research. I just sit and wait for the deals and then pounce when the right thing comes along.
Later
Brush Hog - picked up a used Modern Equipment 4ft brush hog for $325. I think the model is Sunshine. I went over it and changed out the gear oil, put new blades on it and it really shreds. I have a 8 acre field that hasn't been hogged in three years and the trees are taller than I am. It is going through them like it's supposed to. I also learned that I hate brush hogging, but it is a necessary evil. I really got tired of begging the neighbors to do it for me and that's one of many reasons I got the tractor.
Box Blade - really nice find on this one - I got a Gannon Earthcavator 50 or 52" off a local for $375. So far I have used it on my long driveway (1/10 mile or so) to flatten and fill potholes and to fix spots where chickens had dug up the rocks or where people with two wheel drives had lost traction. This thing is awesome, so much you can do with it. I am hoping I can use the rippers setting as a kind plow to expand my garden spot and ready it for tilling.
Just got a Frontier 1150 rototiller off CL for $360 that I haven't even unloaded yet. The owner had it hooked up and it works fine, but he used it on a little sub compact green thingy, and had to reverse the pins on the lower attachments. Unfortunately, he also had bent the lower arms, but it can still be hooked up. I will want to somehow heat and bend back the lower connections and put it back how it is supposed to be...
Okay, well that's it. I am really surprised the amount of trouble one of these little tractors can get into. I hope to expand with some more stuff for gardening, such as cultivator, disks and hip buster, etc.
Thanks for looking. There isn't any kind of an intro section here. So thanks for all the help with research. I just sit and wait for the deals and then pounce when the right thing comes along.
Later
