A John Deere 2025r compact tractor. Four-wheel drive, with a diesel engine. I have a bucket and a set of pallet forks for the front-end loader, along with the front-mounted snow blower, a five foot rear grader blade, and a Tractor Supply three-point carry-all frame that I built into a dump body. I have about five acres of land, and it's almost the perfect swiss army knife piece of equipment for that size of property.
The build quality is good. Maintenance is easy, with all of the grease points easily accessible. I really like the John Deere quick connect system for the loader implements, compared to the skidsteer-style, and the loader is also really easy to take on and off when I'm switching to the snow blower. It has a hydrostatic transmission exactly like that on their lawn tractors, so it is dead simple to drive. The hydraulics are smooth, and it has a float setting that is really handy when plowing snow or back-dragging dirt to level areas out with the bucket.
I've done a lot of work with it, moving dirt, moving rocks, pulling stumps, clearing snow, twitching logs, and just picking things up an moving them around, that would have taken so much longer and been more difficult without it.
The build quality is good. Maintenance is easy, with all of the grease points easily accessible. I really like the John Deere quick connect system for the loader implements, compared to the skidsteer-style, and the loader is also really easy to take on and off when I'm switching to the snow blower. It has a hydrostatic transmission exactly like that on their lawn tractors, so it is dead simple to drive. The hydraulics are smooth, and it has a float setting that is really handy when plowing snow or back-dragging dirt to level areas out with the bucket.
I've done a lot of work with it, moving dirt, moving rocks, pulling stumps, clearing snow, twitching logs, and just picking things up an moving them around, that would have taken so much longer and been more difficult without it.