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Upgrading a John Deere LTR180 Garden Tractor
Sorry if this is off topic, it's not that far off though!
I manage about 2 acres of garden and a 12 acre field with a John Deere LTR180 lawn tractor, 17hp, 42" cut with a nice little trailer - I like it, it's good at what it was designed to do. But I'd like a flail mower, a rotavator and a blade to flatten the soil however because my tractor doesn't have a PTO or a 3 point hitch my choice is very limited. Before I upgrade to a more expensive machine it occured to me somebody must have been through this problem before - did you buy bits to upgrade / customise your small John Deere or think it through, explore lots of avenues and finally have to go shopping for a new tractor? If so which did you look at? I have a nasty suspicion I'm crossing from tightly priced domestic into expensive industrial but the choice of attachments on AVANT www.avanttecno.comand and Valpadana www.valpadana.it look interesting! Thanks Richard |
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Upgrading a John Deere LTR180 Garden Tractor
"Richard Oldfield" wrote in message
... Sorry if this is off topic, it's not that far off though! I manage about 2 acres of garden and a 12 acre field with a John Deere LTR180 lawn tractor, 17hp, 42" cut with a nice little trailer - I like it, it's good at what it was designed to do. But I'd like a flail mower, a rotavator and a blade to flatten the soil however because my tractor doesn't have a PTO or a 3 point hitch my choice is very limited. Before I upgrade to a more expensive machine it occured to me somebody must have been through this problem before - did you buy bits to upgrade / customise your small John Deere or think it through, explore lots of avenues and finally have to go shopping for a new tractor? With your John Deere you're probably going to be stuck with the kind of trailed tools sold for use with ATVs etc, very limited capabilities and not that cheap. A modern compact tractor will give you much greater versatility and better implements. A good dealer will probably be able to get you a good used machine, but do remember that your implements will cost you several times more than the tractor itself if you want to do a wide range of tasks. Having said that I wouldn't want to go back to running a big garden without compact tractors. The most useful for general gardening are around 15-25 hp and they would be capable of doing pretty well anything you need. For a flail you'd probably need to be near the high end of that range especially if you wanted it to collect as well - a flail collector is a bit heavy for the smaller machines. -- Rod My real address is rodthegardeneratmyisp |
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