Garden tractor prices?

Joe

Im looking to buy a garden tractor, i dont care what kind but i want something that i can attach a plow to the back to plow our garden. I was wondering how much a gardeb tractor goes for, what is the best kind and where i could look for one, thanks!

Answer
A plow needs some pretty good tractive effort. You will need some heft, a locking diff and/or 4wd. Some of the small utility reactors can do this, New Holland (Ford), Kubota, etc.

For a rototiller, you can go down to a lawn and garden tractor. Look at the mid range Cub Cadets (2500 series and Up) and similar. Ideal is a hydraulic tiller, most lawn and garden are driven by belt. Very few use a mechanical or hydraulic PTO like a big ag tractor would.

Lawn and garden for lots of tilling, plan on at least $3000. Small utility tractor, plan on $8000. Some people like the grey market tractors...I'm not a big fan but they are cheap.

There are some cute little plows made for small tractors, even walk behind tractors...pretty much worthless for anything more than digging a seed furrow.

Whats the best kind of lawn tractor to use for pulling? (meaning john deere, cub cadet, ect. )?

Wilson

Im getting into tractor pulling and i was wonder what brand of Lawn/Garden tractor would be the best for pulling? Like is there a brand that has a better built engine that can with stand pulling?

Answer
You want enough Horse Power as possible with a HD transmission. I would steer away from hydrostatic transmissions beings they are the most expensive to repair.A manual transmission gives you the range from low , med or high . I spent $2200.00 repairing a Hydrostatic transmission on a Diesel lawn tractor. Damage was caused by pulling a 12' utility trailer with tree debris ( about 400 lbs ).
Sounds like a fun sport.How about a 4wd diesel model instead.

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Trade for harley?

indianjohn

Want to trade a Mahindra 3510 4WD tractor for a harley Im tired of mowing grass,Hurry before the old man gets home or gets his laptop working
What you are here just once a week??
I have dumb questions every day here-Have you seen some of the Brilliant ones I try to answer ?? Im trying to remember what yours was Prob looking for Harley lipstick or something
But im so stupid why did you connect to me??

Answer
Jake, Just mow the lawn for your fathert. Be a good son. (HeeHee)

how to turn a stock Go kart into a dune buggy?

Jack

i have a stock Go kart 2 wheel drive and i wana give it shocks 4WD and bigger tires, dose anyone know how to do this or know where to get kits for this?

Answer
Not to be rude, but if you don't know how to do it, how would you expect to install it even after someone told you?

This isn't a typical "do it yourself" type project. Doing this would require fairly significant mechanical apptitude.

Depending on the size of the Go-Kart, you have to make sure the frame could even withstand increasing the tire size, the engine size, etc. Beyond physically making it work, you also need to make sure it is able to run very well.

(Example: My dad tried this when I was a kid and he just blindly tossed some massive rear tires and a snow-mobile engine on a tiny go-kart frame. Sure it ran, and it was pretty fast, but it was horrible driving it. With such a light weight frame, and rear heavy with big tires, every tiny bump and you almost popped wheelies. Also due to the size of the rear tires you couldn't turn very well due to the back tires binding up. So between popping wheelies all the time, and crappy turning, what seemed like a great idea turned to an expensive waste of time quickly. Also, the rear tires weren't obviously large to anyone looking at it, but beacuse of design flaw they didn't work. Picture a Lawn Tractor, front tires are smaller than the rear right? That was about the size difference between ours)

So, you can certainly try to do it, but if you don't know what you are doing, it will most likely end up like my dad's experiement and just be a big waste of money. (However, he did take his failure and redesign the kart and it worked very well afterwards, but wasn't after learning where he messed up.)

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Which would tear up a lawn worse - A 40 HP New Holland utility tractor with AG Tires or a Toyota 4runner?

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Billybob

Please help settle this debate. The Toyota has 4wd and brand new All-Terrain tires.

Answer
Depends on the driver. I am voting for the 4 runner; but you did not specify tires for that rig.

Trade for harley?

indianjohn

Want to trade a Mahindra 3510 4WD tractor for a harley Im tired of mowing grass,Hurry before the old man gets home or gets his laptop working
What you are here just once a week??
I have dumb questions every day here-Have you seen some of the Brilliant ones I try to answer ?? Im trying to remember what yours was Prob looking for Harley lipstick or something
But im so stupid why did you connect to me??

Answer
Jake, Just mow the lawn for your fathert. Be a good son. (HeeHee)

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Garden tractor prices?

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Joe

Im looking to buy a garden tractor, i dont care what kind but i want something that i can attach a plow to the back to plow our garden. I was wondering how much a gardeb tractor goes for, what is the best kind and where i could look for one, thanks!

Answer
A plow needs some pretty good tractive effort. You will need some heft, a locking diff and/or 4wd. Some of the small utility reactors can do this, New Holland (Ford), Kubota, etc.

For a rototiller, you can go down to a lawn and garden tractor. Look at the mid range Cub Cadets (2500 series and Up) and similar. Ideal is a hydraulic tiller, most lawn and garden are driven by belt. Very few use a mechanical or hydraulic PTO like a big ag tractor would.

Lawn and garden for lots of tilling, plan on at least $3000. Small utility tractor, plan on $8000. Some people like the grey market tractors...I'm not a big fan but they are cheap.

There are some cute little plows made for small tractors, even walk behind tractors...pretty much worthless for anything more than digging a seed furrow.

What can I do with this driveway?

Kat

A house we are looking to purchase from a friend has 1/4 mile gravel/dirt drive that curves and goes up a very steep hill that has been cut and cleared through a forest. (needs 4wd in anything more than 1" of snow or slush, and even then it can be tricky). Every time it rains, the rain creates trenches in the driveway path through the center or a ravines towards the bottom. The current owner uses a tractor every time it rains to flatten out the driveway and make it usable. The large, fist sized (sometimes larger) jagged rocks also cause flats quite often.

I was looking into concreting options, but they quote upwards of $30,000 to do a 8' wide, 1/4 mile stretch of concrete. I liked the idea of concrete, so that we could plow in the winter. However down here the snow typically stays on the ground less than 2 weeks, so it's not a huge deal.

What are our options really for this driveway to make it more usable and "do-able"?

Answer
Whatever you do it's gonna be hard, and a lot of work.

To keep the surface from shifting or forming huge ruts you'd have to dig up what's there down to 1 or 2 feet. Then you need to lay down a bed of coarse crushed stone under a bed of finer crushed stone. After that you can lay whatever surface you're looking for. Concrete is expensive, but not as expensive as asphalt (with all the oil product in it)... Tar and Chip is how they resurface roads around here, but that requires a hard road surface too.

Just do the crushed stone part first. Stone doesn't like to shift around too much when it's laid right, and it allows water to drain. It'll be the cheapest solution.

Here's what I'd do. See if you can hire someone with the right machines (a front end loader or whatever) to dig out whatever you have down. Then I'd rent or borrow a dump truck, some rakes, and a hand roller (like this http://therentalzone.net/roll.jpg) they even make rollers that can be pulled behind a lawn mower / truck. Get a few friends to help, buy one load of the coarse stone and haul it with the dump truck, spread it out to a 6"-10" layer and roll it 3-4 times. When you know how much one load can cover do some math to figure out how much more you'll need. After the coarse stone is down do the same with the fine crushed stone.

When you plow it try not to scrape the stone too much. If properly done it should last you several years. When there's a problem just buy some more crushed stone and level off the road.

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Trade for harley?

best 4wd lawn tractor image

indianjohn

Want to trade a Mahindra 3510 4WD tractor for a harley Im tired of mowing grass,Hurry before the old man gets home or gets his laptop working
What you are here just once a week??
I have dumb questions every day here-Have you seen some of the Brilliant ones I try to answer ?? Im trying to remember what yours was Prob looking for Harley lipstick or something
But im so stupid why did you connect to me??

Answer
Jake, Just mow the lawn for your fathert. Be a good son. (HeeHee)

Garden tractor prices?

Joe

Im looking to buy a garden tractor, i dont care what kind but i want something that i can attach a plow to the back to plow our garden. I was wondering how much a gardeb tractor goes for, what is the best kind and where i could look for one, thanks!

Answer
A plow needs some pretty good tractive effort. You will need some heft, a locking diff and/or 4wd. Some of the small utility reactors can do this, New Holland (Ford), Kubota, etc.

For a rototiller, you can go down to a lawn and garden tractor. Look at the mid range Cub Cadets (2500 series and Up) and similar. Ideal is a hydraulic tiller, most lawn and garden are driven by belt. Very few use a mechanical or hydraulic PTO like a big ag tractor would.

Lawn and garden for lots of tilling, plan on at least $3000. Small utility tractor, plan on $8000. Some people like the grey market tractors...I'm not a big fan but they are cheap.

There are some cute little plows made for small tractors, even walk behind tractors...pretty much worthless for anything more than digging a seed furrow.

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Garden tractor prices?

best 4wd lawn tractor image

Joe

Im looking to buy a garden tractor, i dont care what kind but i want something that i can attach a plow to the back to plow our garden. I was wondering how much a gardeb tractor goes for, what is the best kind and where i could look for one, thanks!

Answer
A plow needs some pretty good tractive effort. You will need some heft, a locking diff and/or 4wd. Some of the small utility reactors can do this, New Holland (Ford), Kubota, etc.

For a rototiller, you can go down to a lawn and garden tractor. Look at the mid range Cub Cadets (2500 series and Up) and similar. Ideal is a hydraulic tiller, most lawn and garden are driven by belt. Very few use a mechanical or hydraulic PTO like a big ag tractor would.

Lawn and garden for lots of tilling, plan on at least $3000. Small utility tractor, plan on $8000. Some people like the grey market tractors...I'm not a big fan but they are cheap.

There are some cute little plows made for small tractors, even walk behind tractors...pretty much worthless for anything more than digging a seed furrow.

What can I do with this driveway?

Kat

A house we are looking to purchase from a friend has 1/4 mile gravel/dirt drive that curves and goes up a very steep hill that has been cut and cleared through a forest. (needs 4wd in anything more than 1" of snow or slush, and even then it can be tricky). Every time it rains, the rain creates trenches in the driveway path through the center or a ravines towards the bottom. The current owner uses a tractor every time it rains to flatten out the driveway and make it usable. The large, fist sized (sometimes larger) jagged rocks also cause flats quite often.

I was looking into concreting options, but they quote upwards of $30,000 to do a 8' wide, 1/4 mile stretch of concrete. I liked the idea of concrete, so that we could plow in the winter. However down here the snow typically stays on the ground less than 2 weeks, so it's not a huge deal.

What are our options really for this driveway to make it more usable and "do-able"?

Answer
Whatever you do it's gonna be hard, and a lot of work.

To keep the surface from shifting or forming huge ruts you'd have to dig up what's there down to 1 or 2 feet. Then you need to lay down a bed of coarse crushed stone under a bed of finer crushed stone. After that you can lay whatever surface you're looking for. Concrete is expensive, but not as expensive as asphalt (with all the oil product in it)... Tar and Chip is how they resurface roads around here, but that requires a hard road surface too.

Just do the crushed stone part first. Stone doesn't like to shift around too much when it's laid right, and it allows water to drain. It'll be the cheapest solution.

Here's what I'd do. See if you can hire someone with the right machines (a front end loader or whatever) to dig out whatever you have down. Then I'd rent or borrow a dump truck, some rakes, and a hand roller (like this http://therentalzone.net/roll.jpg) they even make rollers that can be pulled behind a lawn mower / truck. Get a few friends to help, buy one load of the coarse stone and haul it with the dump truck, spread it out to a 6"-10" layer and roll it 3-4 times. When you know how much one load can cover do some math to figure out how much more you'll need. After the coarse stone is down do the same with the fine crushed stone.

When you plow it try not to scrape the stone too much. If properly done it should last you several years. When there's a problem just buy some more crushed stone and level off the road.

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Which would tear up a lawn worse - A 40 HP New Holland utility tractor with AG Tires or a Toyota 4runner?

best 4wd lawn tractor image

Billybob

Please help settle this debate. The Toyota has 4wd and brand new All-Terrain tires.

Answer
Depends on the driver. I am voting for the 4 runner; but you did not specify tires for that rig.

Trade for harley?

indianjohn

Want to trade a Mahindra 3510 4WD tractor for a harley Im tired of mowing grass,Hurry before the old man gets home or gets his laptop working
What you are here just once a week??
I have dumb questions every day here-Have you seen some of the Brilliant ones I try to answer ?? Im trying to remember what yours was Prob looking for Harley lipstick or something
But im so stupid why did you connect to me??

Answer
Jake, Just mow the lawn for your fathert. Be a good son. (HeeHee)

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