I'm looking for a small tractor just to use for grating my dirt road. I'm not looking to spend too much money but am looking for a small good running tractor with a blade to grate my long dirt driveway
Looking for a small tractor
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I was toying with the idea of getting a small tractor too.... do something with a unwieldy patch (about 1/2 acre) -- same requirement "cheap" (or share). Don't know how, but maybe planting 75'x50' mini corn field or something else. Just wasted space along an easement.
I was toying with the idea of getting a small tractor too.... do something with a unwieldy patch (about 1/2 acre) -- same requirement "cheap" (or share). Don't know how, but maybe planting 75'x50' mini corn field or something else. Just wasted space along an easement.
Prob only a few times a year to grate the road but I imagine there could be other tasks we could use it for around our property.
There are lots of old ones for sale pretty cheap. How small is small? If you want to drag a blade you're looking at a small farm tractor at least. My Dad and I were looking at old Farmalls last year, and there were a ton of them around in the $1500-$3000 range.
Yeah thats within our price range. Is there any good tractor auctions anyone knows about or a good place to go?
As I recall there were a ton of listings for old Farmalls and IH's on eBay at the time we were looking. There are also several websites devoted to Farmall afficianados. I would check the eBay resources first, since you want to buy one and not just read about them. I'd be surprised if you can't find a decent candidate in your area in the price range mentioned. Those things were workhorses, and very simple to fix. There are lots of parts around too. So they have lasted a long time.
Edit: right now on eBay there are 441 listings for agricultural/forestry tractors, and another 3700 or so in the antique category.
Here's a Kubota for $1800 25 miles from Cherry Hill:
http://cgi.ebay.com/L175-Kubota-tra...ryZ50921QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
Edit: right now on eBay there are 441 listings for agricultural/forestry tractors, and another 3700 or so in the antique category.
Here's a Kubota for $1800 25 miles from Cherry Hill:
http://cgi.ebay.com/L175-Kubota-tra...ryZ50921QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
Thanks alot for your help Mark i'll start snooping around a little more. Thanks again for the info.
if you need it mostly for the dirt road DR (www.DRpowergrader.com) has a grader that you can pull behind a quad or a lawn tractor, may even work better then a tractor with a blade.