Our New Tractor
We bought a tractor. OK a lawn tractor technically but it has a three point hitch, hydraulics, and a 62" cutting deck. It looks like a tractor. It feels like a tractor.
Paul delivered it while I was out of town, so tonight was my first chance to use it. Ohhh ya. It has crazy power. I cut over small trees on half throttle and it didn't even blink a headlight. I drove it up hill while cutting and pulling a wagon and it asked for more work. It is a tractor.
We were looking for a while and we couldn't find a used John Deere X500 series tractor anywhere in Ontario for a reasonable price. The X500 is the smallest "ground engaging" tractor, meaning you can run a tiller, or a cultivator, or a box blade, or whatever. It also has the frame to pull a load and the power to drive a larger than 48" deck. Then we came across a used X700 in Listowel for a little more than we were thinking of paying for the X500. The X700 is the big brother. Not only can you do ground engaging but you can add an optional front loader, or hydraulic front mounted snow blower, or run a 10KW generator off the rear PTO. Yes, it has a PTO. We took it. More than we need but who is complaining about extra power.
The plan for now is to cut the weeds down, pick some rocks, and hopefully plant some seedlings. We'll need the tractor and wagon for all of that.
Seems like this machine will work and it was sure fun to drive.
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