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<blockquote data-quote="warddawg" data-source="post: 132278" data-attributes="member: 24395"><p>WOW, that video brings back some memories for me. I said I was new to skid steers BUT not new to ALL of this kind of work. We just moved from a 106-acre property that we had lived on for the past 35 years to this 80 an old MF 231, 38 HP 2-wheel drive tractor and an added-on backhoe. I also bought and operated a real old AC HD5 dozer that just wasn't much better than the tractor for taking out trees. My neighbors would watch and laugh at me at the stuff I would do with that tractor and told me it was a tractor NOT a dozer. LOL They also told my wife I was going to kill myself on it. The one neighbor was a professional heavy equipment business owner, operator and did ALL the really big stuff I needed done such as repairing the dams on our two ponds. When I got the HD 5 he commented one day to me that a skid steer could do everything and more than the tractor and the dozer could do with the attachments available for them. THAT is what led me now to think about a skid steer as a one piece of equipment. YES, after 35 years of tearing that tractor up doing things it actually wasn't intended for I did find out about fixing BROKEN stuff, including replacing the radiator from a limb of a tree I bulldozer over with the front-end loader. Hoses were a constant repair and are NOT cheap and I went through probably 3 or 4 brush hogs and who knows how many blades. Once I got the property figured out as to how to travel over it those things did NOT happen as often. The tractor I bought is smaller than this guy had but bigger than the one I had plus 4-wheel drive but in the couple of hours I have used it I seem to think it doesn't have the power the MF, 38HP 2-wheel drive had. One thing for sure you sure have gotten me back to really thinking about the entire situation. YES, you did exactly as you said and added more food for thought but at least I did get to watch what each type of machine could do while performing the very same type work. I think I'm now right back to where I started but now instead of a skid steer with attachments possibly the tractor with more attachments. The other thing is I am NOT as young as I used to be when I did all this with just that old MF! I suspect that age is a pretty important factor in the equipment as well as the operator and FIXER UPPER of it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="warddawg, post: 132278, member: 24395"] WOW, that video brings back some memories for me. I said I was new to skid steers BUT not new to ALL of this kind of work. We just moved from a 106-acre property that we had lived on for the past 35 years to this 80 an old MF 231, 38 HP 2-wheel drive tractor and an added-on backhoe. I also bought and operated a real old AC HD5 dozer that just wasn't much better than the tractor for taking out trees. My neighbors would watch and laugh at me at the stuff I would do with that tractor and told me it was a tractor NOT a dozer. LOL They also told my wife I was going to kill myself on it. The one neighbor was a professional heavy equipment business owner, operator and did ALL the really big stuff I needed done such as repairing the dams on our two ponds. When I got the HD 5 he commented one day to me that a skid steer could do everything and more than the tractor and the dozer could do with the attachments available for them. THAT is what led me now to think about a skid steer as a one piece of equipment. YES, after 35 years of tearing that tractor up doing things it actually wasn't intended for I did find out about fixing BROKEN stuff, including replacing the radiator from a limb of a tree I bulldozer over with the front-end loader. Hoses were a constant repair and are NOT cheap and I went through probably 3 or 4 brush hogs and who knows how many blades. Once I got the property figured out as to how to travel over it those things did NOT happen as often. The tractor I bought is smaller than this guy had but bigger than the one I had plus 4-wheel drive but in the couple of hours I have used it I seem to think it doesn't have the power the MF, 38HP 2-wheel drive had. One thing for sure you sure have gotten me back to really thinking about the entire situation. YES, you did exactly as you said and added more food for thought but at least I did get to watch what each type of machine could do while performing the very same type work. I think I'm now right back to where I started but now instead of a skid steer with attachments possibly the tractor with more attachments. The other thing is I am NOT as young as I used to be when I did all this with just that old MF! I suspect that age is a pretty important factor in the equipment as well as the operator and FIXER UPPER of it. [/QUOTE]
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