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The "Tractor"
This is my first tractor. I skipped the yuppy garden tractor and went straight to the AG version. It's a 40 horsepower Ford 3000 tractor. It has a front end loader which can lift 1,800LBS. Its tires weigh 600 pounds each. Its total weight is somewhere around 6,700LBS, about 1,000LBS more than my truck.
I LOVE IT. But it'll kill you if you give it the chance. When I first started riding it I thought I knew it all. It only took one (ok maybe two) times of running down a hill out of control heading straight for a drainage ditch. Farm Tractors aren't toys and the next time you go zipping by one on the road take the time to slow down and pass safely.
Farm tractors have all kinds of attachments that you can add on. I have a 5' brush hog, a rear blade, a 5' tiller, a 6' rake, an auger, and a box blade.
The brush hog is a mower incase you didn't know and it WILL CUT ANYTHING I drove over a 4X4 by mistake and it turned it into mulch. It makes short order of rose bushes.
The rear blade is for scraping the ground, moving snow around, digging ditches, and plowing stuff. It makes the best ditches around. Since I'm in a valley I've been digging lots of drainage ditches to get the water under control.
The box blade is like a rear blade but it has sides. The sides keep the dirt inside the "box" so if you have ruts in your roads you drag it along the road. The dirt gets scraped up and falls into the ruts.
VIOLA new road. It helps out a lot since I have dirt roads.
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