Snow can be a problem, but shipping companies can usually deal with it. We have snowy roads for most of the year, so we get around in it pretty well. The snowblower had to be transferred form a truck to a barge. The original shipper didn't understand that Seattle wasn't the final ship-to point.
For the first time in my life; I'm looking forward to summer when the grass grows, so I can get busy bush hogging it.
That looks like my neighbors new lawn mower. He has five Kubota's now, so he doesn't have to change attachments. His latest is a snazzy looking track hoe.
Neat; I can't imagine having five, would probably take me out; just the happy stress of owning this one, was hard for me.
I know that's right "John"; I just got lucky with this one coming with it. And you're right about the box blades having so many uses too. "Love", this one. You should keep looking, and you might find a great deal; during winter, on a bush hog.
My problem is that I've been told by more than one person that I should avoid buying a used one. Unlike most attachments, the bush hog has lots of stuff that can be wrong with it (the gears, the flails, the deck.) They get pretty beat up during use. I need to sell the landscape rake I have and put the money towards a bush hog. I used the rake exactly once to drag out the gravel in our right of way, and ended up switching to the box blade. The landscape rake I bought is a real nice one, and the tines are strong enough to grab thick brush & branches and drag them, but as you know, I can use the box blade to do the exact same thing.
Yeah it will do the same thing; I've found out, I pulled six piles of vines to the field this morning, that Marie had stacked up for me; and I never have to get off the tractor; I just drag it to the field, then lift box blade, and back over it, pull in front of it, lower box blade and push it to where I want it; lift and "go". As "you" know; mine is "used", but the guy repaired everything on it; before he sold it to me. He named a bunch of things he replaced on it, like all bearings, and a few other things, that he said he replaced, and also said, it's the quietest one he's ever used, and after using it, I have to "agree" with him. Should be easy to run add, maybe craigslist; or "somewhere", and sell that landscape rake, "easy". Since it's really still like new.
No, buddy. I bought that brand new (gotta love 0% financing.) My tractor is a 2010 Kubota B3200. Just like cars, once you drive it off the lot...
Oh; o k, "I thought", you meant the landscape rake, anyway I was saying though my bush hog is used, it's in great shape after the guy replaced almost everything on it, and that selling the landscape rake, should be easy; since only used very little. 0% finance is good.
I think the landscape rake can do the raking better than the box blade. I have both, and I rake the branches off the property after the winter snow is gone prior to the first mowing. I don't think I could do that with the box blade. The box blade is what I leave on almost all summer however, as it supplies the most ballast and is an "emergency brake" and anti-rollover safety device. The rake is used once or twice a year, especially if I use it for rock removal, the tiller is on once or twice a year for several days each time. The front-end bucket never comes off and the snowblower is on all winter.
I bought the landscape rake mostly for maintaining the right-of-way. I only have one tree in my front lot and another tree in my back lot, so pick it up by hand. My challenge is that the right-of-way is not even. I see folks use these implements on gravel roads that have been laid out on the prairie and know I'll never be able to do that. A skid loader with treads might smooth things out, but when a 4 wheeled vehicle hits rises and divots, anything hanging off of the front or back goes up and down. Maybe one day I'll get out there and tear it down to the bed and lay it out from scratch...but I doubt it will stay level for long.