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Finish grading using a compact tractor

dirtmonkey

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We got rid of the 410 and and I haven't ran the 710 in a couple years but we had a rental cat 420... I think.... It was pretty quick at moving a lot of material on a job few months ago, lately most thing we been using the excavators for even my dynahoes haven't been started in a few months :(

The handy thing about the little 210's is you could move em' around on two axle car trailers.
I think you’re thinking of the Deere 110 ‘s. I may be wrong.
 

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Totally agree! but I did learn some new or different methods,nice to learn about other options;)!and different kinds of equipment:cool:!to use:D!
 

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This is a 210 skip loader.
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I think you’re thinking of the Deere 110 ‘s. I may be wrong.
Yeah, the 110's are even smaller the landscape crowd around here pays even more for em' which makes them really hard to find a good deal on a used one... plus once they've had em' a few years they're shot :(
 

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Yeah, the 110's are even smaller the landscape crowd around here pays even more for em' which makes them really hard to find a good deal on a used one... plus once they've had em' a few years they're shot :(
Oh yeah. Road hard and totally abused. Landscapers and turd herders use them a lot around here.
 

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A skip loader is like hen's teeth in my area, I don't think I've ever seen one working. o_O
 

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I think he is talking about JD110 and a JD210 those you can put on a 2 wheel trailer:)! I do not know how a skip loader got into the forum:confused:! same model numbers totally different equipment! the forum was about finish grading with a compact tractor:rolleyes:!also JD110 and a JD210 are not compact tractors or subcompact:p! they are mowers that you can put a blade on;)!
 

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o_O Damn. We’re all over the place with this thread aren’t we ! Lol. Compacts, lawn/garden, skips and even hoes !
 

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A skip loader is like hen's teeth in my area, I don't think I've ever seen one working. o_O
Yeah, for some reason even around here the grading guys won't part with them, it took us over a year of looking to get our ford 345d.... and I do prefer the jd210's over it... they're a lot quieter!! these ford's are loud rattlers ;)
 

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I use a old Farm tractor, get multi use of it that way. Grade work, plow work, bush hog as I do not believe many skip loaders came with PTO.
 

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Our new holland has the PTO and we have run a brush hog on it when we pulled the gannon box off but like most of the smaller ones you really need something on the rear if you're going to use the loader in the front :eek: I've had the rear in the air a foot before I could feather the loader down... which on the NH is tricky to say the least!!!


I also have a little 20hp british diesel I like for running the rock rake and smaller implements on.
 

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Yeah, for some reason even around here the grading guys won't part with them, it took us over a year of looking to get our ford 345d.... and I do prefer the jd210's over it... they're a lot quieter!! these ford's are loud rattlers ;)

Yep, I had to go out of state to get mine.
 

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Skip loaders here fell out of favor some time back, big investment for a specialty/minimal hours use tractor where a small dozer and as noted basically farm equipment does as well for less money. Do not believe they ballast the rears on these when new, rely of tractor dead weight and a implement attached for that ballast. With Ag tractors the rubber tends not to be suited for industrial but are often ballasted to keep the rear hugging ground. Kubota's are often seen in dress off positions with grade contractors here or the heavy work will be completed and the finish work sub-contracted to a Landscaper type company using smaller machines suitable.
 

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Compacts are handy for small gardens, larger lawns, I have one a JD 2305 nearly 14 years old diesel and 20hp, cost us $10,000 used, Kubotas' are close to that expense unless worn to a frazzle where I would not buy a Montana or Mahindra or other Off Brand as service or parts support are close to non existent. Has a loader on it(Separate Expense Attachment), where if load the bucket to any real extent the tires cannot handle the weight. I use it as intended, pull a rock rake, use it for a mower even use the loader to transport minor rock loads or dirt instead of a wheelbarrow but is not a heavy work machine. A 'Large Tractor' is 100hp or bigger, a Utility Tractor is 30-50hp, a mid range is 50-90hp where I have a mid sized almost utility tractor close to fifty years old Allis Chalmers 72hp diesel 180 where Obsolescence and Orphan Manufacture is rapidly killing it off. I use it for a 6' tiller, a 8' Bush Hog mower, a 4/14 bottom plow a 12' 16" blade Massey Disc and other mechanisms.

Moving up a size and you are back into $10s of thousands of dollars even used where a 40hp will operate a 4-6' wide tiller(If make multiple passes), can pull a small disc thru softer or softened soils but is still essentially a oversized lawn mower. If you intend to 'Farm' and grow a decent half to full acre of garden you need to invest in machines that can do that routinely and effortlessly 50+hp and up otherwise playing a bad Chess Game.
 
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