Smaller than a commercial...bigger than a hobby...

Posted by Matt from CT on April 05, 2005 at 10:12:08 from (66.181.93.136):

Curious if others are seeing a trend...

I only play around on my 12 mostly wooded acres (with a '55 TO-35 :) )...but I've always followed farms around here with interest.

More and more in Southern New England I'm seeing decent size tractors at the few dealers around again -- I'm talking in the 100hp range. These ain't the compacts for the gentlemen farmers (like me) with money (unlike me :D)...these aren't the utility tractors for the horse people.

Then again, they're smaller than what the remaining "get big or get out" dairy farmers would usually use...

And there way more than the "small & efficient" dairy farmer would spend on a tractor...they might use the same power, but they'd buy it used. (My neighboring dairy uses a beautiful Allis D-19 as their daily utility!)

My only guess is these are being bought, or at least stocked on the hope to be sold, by larger Hobby farmers who want the "full size" tractor 'cause they look nice...

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• Re: Smaller than a commercial...bigger than a hobb Easy 01:49:23 04/06/05 (0)
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• Re: Smaller than a commercial...bigger than a hobb Gerald J. 12:09:01 04/05/05 (0)
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