We ignored the advice from our farm friends about buying a two wheel drive tractor for our small horse farm. To this day, they still tell us it’s a waste of money but we think otherwise. Our east Tennessee land gets pretty muddy and it only takes a little bit of rain to make it slick. If we planned on using this tractor any time other than when it was completely dry, we would have been out of luck with 2wd. 4wd isn’t a luxury, it’s a necessity where we live and our 4WD Kubota with locking rear differential is serving us well. Here’s a short video (1:24 minutes) showing some examples of why we needed a 4wd tractor:
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Vindication is so sweet sometimes.
Just found your site via the Power Guides. Good stuff over here, even for horseowners who have been around the block a few times. Thanks.
Well you sold me. That’s some serious mud you’ve got to deal with there.
I really think you should consider looking for some narrator jobs, Bill. Kubota ought to consider hiring you to do advertisements. You have the perfect voice for it.
Great video.
~Lisa
Living in Ontario, Cananda we need a 4wd tractor for the snow, but like you we can get a lot of rain at times as well as the spring run off. It would be pretty impossible to feed hay in the early spring without the 4wd. I see the same would be for you. I wonder how your friends manage without one?
Thanks for the comments! I’ll try to make more as we have time. And I hate my voice but that’s pretty common. It doesn’t sound anything like what it sounds like inside my head.