Who owns a Compact Tractor ?

[DGZRT]

The Gravel around the Garages turned out great almost makes me want to do more .

 

[Snowman871]

Very nice tractor! I hate to even tell my LS story . I have a dealer about 11 miles from My cabin ( Bonduel WI ) Nice tractors with great features but the dealer turned me off . First few times I stopped Nobody came out and asked if I had any questions and when I finally approached the service desk they gave me a teenager about 16 yrs old . Nice boy but he kept trying to look everything up on his phone to answer my Questions . I guess I felt that if something happened I would get no service . I believe the product is great but you need the service too!

Looks like you will have plenty of help in a few years Boys like there Tractors !

Dealer location/support was definitely in my evaluation criteria when determining what I purchased. There's a New Holland dealer much closer but I couldn't stomach the price delta for the same tractor with a different loader and less standard options... My LS dealer is ~45 minutes away, but support has been great. Original salesman was very knowledgeable and not pushy at all. I've had a couple items covered under warranty and OEM parts weren't terrible when I got a little rowdy with a stump... Added some steel mesh up front for better protection!

The picture before is from the first day home, so they've grown up a bit. I've got 3 kids ages 7, 4, and 1. All of them have really liked tractor rides, though it's not the most roomy cab the bigger they get!

The tractor has been an awesome machine and has served me well. Moving round bales, dirt work, clearing snow, grading gravel roads, working up food plots, drilling post holes, mowing, the list just keeps going!

 

[DGZRT]

Dealer location/support was definitely in my evaluation criteria when determining what I purchased. There's a New Holland dealer much closer but I couldn't stomach the price delta for the same tractor with a different loader and less standard options... My LS dealer is ~45 minutes away, but support has been great. Original salesman was very knowledgeable and not pushy at all. I've had a couple items covered under warranty and OEM parts weren't terrible when I got a little rowdy with a stump... Added some steel mesh up front for better protection!

The picture before is from the first day home, so they've grown up a bit. I've got 3 kids ages 7, 4, and 1. All of them have really liked tractor rides, though it's not the most roomy cab the bigger they get!

The tractor has been an awesome machine and has served me well. Moving round bales, dirt work, clearing snow, grading gravel roads, working up food plots, drilling post holes, mowing, the list just keeps going!

Very nice tractor! I think once I retire in 6 years I’ll trade up for a cab . I need a few more implements to make better food plots . Any recommendations? Nice brush guard It looks like your pallet forks have been used !

 

[Snowman871]

Very nice tractor! I think once I retire in 6 years I’ll trade up for a cab . I need a few more implements to make better food plots . Any recommendations? Nice brush guard It looks like your pallet forks have been used !

The cab is flat out awesome! Living in WI it sure is nice during those hot/humid summer days and cold/blowing winter days. Specific to LS it was only like a $2k difference when compared to an open station, seemed like money well spent to me.

I honestly don't have anything too fancy for food plot work, but I do have a nice variety of implements that each serve a purpose. Some day I'd like to get a tiller, but for now here's my regiment for ground prep from sod: Start with a good round of glyphosphate to kill all the grass. If needed I use my 3 pt. landscape rake to clear away debris before turning things up. I break things up with a 3 pt. chisel plow. Once I get things broken up I switch over to a 3 pt. disc. Once something is established I can usually get away with just my disc, but it's downright impressive how tough live sod is if you just try to sink a 3 pt. disc into it. After things are seeded I usually run over it with my ATV pulling a harrow style drag to get good seed to soil contact.

Yeah, that first picture was the aftermath of me getting rowdy with a stump... Really dented the top of my pallet forks and busted a fair amount of front end plastics... Fortunately both were relatively easy to repair. I was able to buy all the plastic parts from my local dealer. It didn't take them too long to arrive and they weren't as pricey as I expected considering they don't pump these tractors out like name brand half ton trucks.

 

[DGZRT]

My daughter finishing up the culvert.

 

[DGZRT]

My buddies new Kubota . Just picked it up last week .

 

[DGZRT]

I call this on going project the Big Clean ! The woods directly around the cabin was due to be logged . In the summer you had a hard time seeing the Garages from the deck . Not any more There were 178 Pine stumps just around the house and what we considered the yard . We had the stumps Ground by a crew but the cleanup was left to us . In the woods you can see the mess I'm dealing with ! We had miles of trails. All of them need to be reclaimed .

 

[20/80]

I call this on going project the Big Clean ! The woods directly around the cabin was due to be logged . In the summer you had a hard time seeing the Garages from the deck . Not any more There were 178 Pine stumps just around the house and what we considered the yard . We had the stumps Ground by a crew but the cleanup was left to us . In the woods you can see the mess I'm dealing with ! We had miles of trails. All of them need to be reclaimed . View attachment 162156View attachment 162157View attachment 162158

It will look better after you pick up everything and pull the stumps then haul it to a safe site to burn it, lots of work ahead of you, it will look nice after your done.

 

[sailor joe]

instead of grinding the stumps I'd advise pulling them out, in the long run so much better. Nice job!!

 

[DGZRT]

We had some bad storm damage to the land last week . 5 more big trees down . I just installed a new screened in Pergola and it made it one week and the top came off in the storm . The tractor sure helped with the clean up . Depending on the size of the log I could cut them in 8 to 20 ft long PCs and throw them in the woods .

 

[bleedyamaha]

Here’s my junk. I mow grass put in food plots and blow snow with it.

 

[DGZRT]

Here’s my junk. I mow grass put in food plots and blow snow with it.

Looks like fine equipment to me ! That’s a fine looking deer ! Hope to see a picture with you holding up his Horns

 

[bleedyamaha]

Looks like fine equipment to me ! That’s a fine looking deer ! Hope to see a picture with you holding up his Horns

Funny thing is that buck I named Valentine cause the white crest under his chin was shaped like a heart. I passed him up several times and a month later my nephew sticks an arrow in him. I gave him so much crap!

 

[DGZRT]

Funny thing is that buck I named Valentine cause the white crest under his chin was shaped like a heart. I passed him up several times and a month later my nephew sticks an arrow in him. I gave him so much crap!

I'm going to have to side with your Nephew on this one Not sure, I could let one that nice walk by.... Iowa breeds them BIG !

 

[DGZRT]

Here’s my junk. I mow grass put in food plots and blow snow with it.

So If you have some pointers for food plots please let me know . Do you buy roundup resistant seed ? I though my plot looked good until the weeds took over . How so you prep your land ? Spray roundup wait a week then rototill it up ? Can you list the Seeds that have worked the best ?

I've had some good luck last year with the plots but this year the weeds just killed it . I see some tracks in the plot but not many.