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Would love to go bigger than 25hp and still might if I can find a good enough deal on a used one. Ends up coming down to price for the time being. I know I can get by with 25hp for a few years. That and the small foot print of a CUT is something I'm after for my drainage jobs since I will need to be working close to the house and in between house and garage etc. Plenty of space for every other thing I wanna do but the tight spaces between house, garage and chicken coop is my reasoning behind smaller tractor for now. My hopes are to get by with a smaller CUT for a few years and then upgrade once our cash flow really picks up when the old lady's dad retires and she takes full control. From my research it seems the max series of mahindras are pretty dang capable for what they are. Jobs will just take a little more time with the lower HP but that's something I can deal with for a few years

Sounds like I'm in the same boat you were. I have a bunch of land behind my house I have sole access to with plans to buy it from the lady in the near future. Basically waiting for my wife to take over her dads shop so we can plunk down cash in the old lady's hand. At that point I'll own over 40 acres and still have access to about 5 more from the other neighbor. I may not own the land at the moment, but I have permission to pretty much do as I please with food plots, making trails, pretty much anything short of building a permanent structure like a house lol. With the addition of a tractor I could get a lot done out back. I am thinking more and more that a tractor is a necessity to take care of the land more than anything. I'm thinking the joy of working the land will outweigh the negatives of making a payment. Either way I'm gonna pay one way or another. I would defiantly shop for used implements

Made my day right there. Was in a general sour mood until I read that. Haha.

Don't wanna give up the atv and financially don't have too, more of a peace offering to sway the wife's decision. Wife is set to take over her fathers business in about 3-5 years so we will really be in good shape once that happens. Just doing the best I can until that time comes. If my math is correct, renting for a week would cost me half as much as paying a years worth of payments. If I was only set on doing these two jobs I'd agree renting made more sense. But the plan to acquire my neighbors 40 acres behind me means I have a lot more land to mess with in the future. With the future jobs to come I'm seeing buying a tractor as a worthwhile investment. Does this make sense?

Truck and trailer I have covered. I've ran a lot of machines in my life, just never personally owned them. Give me 15 mins on a new to me machine and I'll hold my own with well seasoned vets. Insurance is obtainable if it gets to that. I have no problem investing in something that will lead to profit down the road. What I dislike is investing a lot of mine to just solve one single problem, when I'm sure more will only come in the future. Ya I know there's some Regs on the septic work, so shhh don't turn this rebel in. [emoji12] lol Tractor is 24.5 HP. The specs on the mahindras are pretty dang good and out class JD and Kubota in many ways. 7 year warranty is also a nice thing.

I have a truck and trailer to use. Looked into forming a LLC which is cheap and easy. I could scare up some help. But the only 2 people I think who would go out of their way to help me would be my two closest buddies/coworkers. The 3 of us run the mills at work so one of us is always there. Makes timing a pain. My family lives in Kansas and wife's family is way to self centered to help. Neighbor owns a excavating business but does more large scale jobs out of state. I have seeked his guidance and he is the one who got the 10k figure minimum stuck in my head. He said he'd love to help me out but his machines are way over sized for what I need done

Ok so I'm gonna try and make this sorta brief as to not bore any of you on this lovely Saturday. I'm having leach field field issues and some serious water drainage issues. My garage is about to be swallowed up by a rapidly growing creek almost. I knew last spring we had some drainage issues but with the lack of snow last year it was on the verge of tolerable, especially since it dried up quick last year with the lack of rain. I basically need to dig a trench to divert the water around the property and down to the ditch at the street. Leach field basically needs to be expanded as I'm finding out it's much smaller than I was told when I bought the place a little over a year ago. Now the cost to do all this would be well outside my abilities to pay upfront. I'm guessing at least 10 grand with the amount that needs to be dug and all the piping, stone, blah blah blah. Could be even higher but regardless, I don't have that kinda cash laying around. I have replaced my fair share of septic systems with my old man over the years as it seems my family is cursed when it comes to septic systems. I know I can fix it myself and regular drainage trenches and piping is pretty straight forward stuff. My dilemma is that I don't have a backhoe or loader to do the work. Renting is a option but it gets pretty pricey quick at $250 a day. Doing this work myself will obviously take more time than a day. So now I'm back to my long lived dream of buying my own tractor with a loader, backhoe and some other goodies to go along with it. Priced out a mahindra max 24 with the loader,BH, rototiller, box blade and a brushhog for around 25K. Mahindra offers 0% interest for 84 months too. Quote I received from Macfadden was $312 a month with a additional $1000 rebate after taking delivery. Taking on another payment is the last thing I want to do at the moment but it's far more feasible to pay tractor payment vs figuring out how to come up with lump sum of cash which would most likely require some sort of loan anyways,which means monthly payment regardless. To compensate I'm considering selling my atv to get rid of that payment to help cover this. Not wanting to do that, but I don't think my wife would ever let me take on another payment without giving one up. I have a lot of stuff I can do around here with a tractor, especially the backhoe. Beyond my septic and drainage problems I have quite a few trees that need to come down and stumps will need to be dug out. Then there's the food plotting aspect out back. Been dying for a tractor to create bigger and better plots and other stuff. I'm really wanting to dig a small pond to help catch a lot of this ground water that just wants to run through my house. To help make such a investment a positive thing, I'm thinking/hoping/dreaming I could do some side work with the tractor to cover the cost. Brush hogging, rototilling, driveway grading, drainage trenches with the backhoe. Really anything I could do with a compact tractor. Would cater more towards small jobs that the big company's don't wanna bother with. Not looking to get rich by any means, but I would love to be able to cover the cost of tractor and put a few bucks in my pocket. And who doesn't love working on a tractor! I'd much rather scale back my weekend hours at my full time job and do some side work outside to keep me happy. Doing a bit of research it seems there's a lot of guys with the same mindset as me looking for small side work to pay for these machines. Most responses seem positive other than advising to get insurance, which is something I would do if it became big enough to warrant that type of investment. Hoping most of my work will come through family/ friend connections where I'm less likely to need to worry about having insurance. Risky, yes I know, I'm a natural born risk taker and have been lectured for years so let's not go there. Lol. So to wrap up my rambling....trying to decide if it's worth getting rid of my atv and signing my name to 84 months of payments on a tractor. Wife is against the idea but that's not a surprise as she's against almost any sort of change or uncertainty. That 312 a month payment doesn't excite her either as it's as much as we pay for her SUV haha. She also doesn't fully grasp the financial scope of the work we need done, and if it doesn't get done I fear our septic problems will only compound into major ones in the near future. I'd much rather take out a loan for a tractor than a loan to pay someone to do it for me. Am I on a rationale thought process here? Or is my love of tractors and working in the dirt making me biased. As I argue with my wife over it, my brain is about to short circuit and I can't see who's right or wrong anymore. Haha. Anyone been in this situation before have some advice? Only negative I can come up with is losing out on having an atv for awhile until I could pay other crap off and maybe acquire a new one in a couple years. Not to mention if I hope to start doing side jobs I don't have time for it anyways. So help me out here. Do I just quit dreaming and find another way....or do I pick up a tractor and get to work.

Still don't understand why anyone even reads or listens to these polls. They poll city dwelling liberals. Recent history has proven that these polls are far from accurate and do not represent the majority.

I can't believe cabelas even picked those electric trike things up. Do they really thing there's a big enough market for a $6800 bike!? Your not far off the price of a bad boy buggy or similar electric 4x4. I'd rather have the bigger machine than a silly little toy bike

80% wildlife viewing fun, 15% herd research and management, 5% use to attempt and pin down a buck. That's my breakdown. I run cameras year round just to catch cool pics and see what's moving around. I do like to keep an eye on my local herd as best as I can so it's nice to have the cams for that. I usually leave cams in the same place year round but I will move a couple sometimes if I catch a good buck and I'm trying to figure out where he's coming from and such. Even if I don't see a big buck in person, it's always fun to see one on a camera so it keeps the excitement alive on those long sits in the tree just thinking that any min that big boy could walk out.

Look for more deals to come from gander mountain as I hear they are readying to file for chapter 11

Lookin pretty good here too!

Correction to my above post. I think I might have 3 bobcats in there. I didn't see the set of eyes in the background the first go around. Looks like I might have more bobcats around than I thought

Not a fisher but just checked a cam out back and found these bobcat pics. There was one going by a little after 11pm just last night! i

Placed a order this morning for 10lbs of cabelas branded clover and 5lbs of the cabelas brand chicory. With a couple gift cards I was only out 20 bucks. I was going to get a 9lb bag of WI Fusion but ended up going with the cabelas seed. Got more seed for the same price. Hoping it is decent seed, very few reviews on the website but the few that were there were positive. The deer hammered my Fusion plot last year. I think the chicory was a big draw as they ate all of it to the ground before hammering the clover. I figured if I went with the cabelas brand clover I could save a few bucks and get a bigger bag of chicory to go a little heavier on that this year. Going to frost seed this stuff. Hoping it works out. Still need to open one more field for a fall planting. More on that later

They are cool animals. I think one might of got into my chicken coop almost a year ago and killed a few of my chickens but I haven't had any problems since then.

That's my thought process on a lot of things. I could have installed the new French doors to the patio and I could have fixed some other stuff around my house but sometimes it's just literally not worth my time. I have a buddy who's a contractor and I've tossed him $100 to do a job that would take me 3-4 hours but takes him a little over a hour but I can make way more than $100 in 2 hours on double time on the weekends. I like my free time as much as the next guy, but I'm not a Rockefeller either, so I do what I can when I can. What's left over, I might hire out to keep my sanity.

I know some atv plows aren't so great, but I was really looking into the Boss atv plows that are hydraulic. They have some weight to them and function like a plow on your truck would. They look pretty awesome, a bit pricey but it has gotten my attention.

Hoping it goes through. I'd love to be able to buy a real AR

Snowblower for me. Don't need the exercise from shoveling. Next year I think I'll get a plow for the atv.

O and if anyone was ever wondering if the Ion electric ice augers are worth the money. It's worth it's weight in gold. That thing ripped through the ice completely effortlessly. We drilled over 50 holes Saturday and it didn't come close to dying. Charged it up overnight and drilled 30 more today and it didn't leave full charge on the indicator. And the reverse flush feature is awesome too. Cleans the holes out really well to the point that we didn't bother using the traditional ice scoop anymore.

Picked up this jet sled and hitch at field and stream on the way up yesterday. Glad I did because it worked awesome. My buddy had a jet sled already but he picked up the same hitch. 8-12 inches of ice out here depending where your at. Caught a few small pike and one walleye after dark. Phone was dead by then so no pics unfortunately. Packed up a bit early because the storm is really rolling in now. Dumping almost 2 inches a hour here.

Following this as well!

Headed north to Champlain to ice fish at my buddies camp. Supposed to start snowing pretty good tomorrow. I'm sure we will be headed home late tomorrow in near blizzard conditions haha. O well we will make it back one way or another!

I saw a weather report saying we could get another 8-16 inches on Sunday-Monday. Who turned on winter?!