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I have a question for the group. It mostly relates to mowing. I see that this has been covered a lot by the group, but I don't know if my particular question has come up.

We have a horse farm. Just 2 horses and 6 acres. About 4 acres is either yard, or pasture that needs to be mowed periodically. Then we have 2 wild acres than need some attention from a bush-hog and loader bucket.

We just moved in last year and are making due with a little JD lawn tractor. Its fine for pulling small manure loads, but obviously not up to taming my wild areas. Also, it only has a 42 inch deck and it takes a long time to cut all that grass.

I've been procrastinating on buying something like a TC33D because I'm making due with what I have for manure dumping purposes and don't NEED a tractor yet. However, if a TC33D could also make cutting my grass faster, I might just do it.

Questions:
1) How manuverable does SS make the TC33D? Is it manuverable like a lawn tractor? Worse? Better? The reason I ask is that we've got vinyl post-rail fencing and need to have some manuverability.

2) Is there a compromise tire for both ag work and yard work? I don't want to rip my my lawn with ag tires, but I also don't want to get stuck in the mud with turf tires.

3) I assume a MMM isn't the solution since the tractor would get used daily for other purposes like spreading manure. Can someone just confirm this?

4) I assume a loader is going to decrease the effective manuverability of the package for yard work (i.e. manuvering around a vinyl fence). If so, how easy is the loader to take on/off.

Obviously, using a tractor for lawn mowing isn't idea. In a perfect world, I'd got get a Gravely 60" mower AND a TC45D with a loader.

Any ideas are greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Dean

All around tractor
New Holland Tractors
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