I bought a 26 HP Yanmar from Fredrick's in Decatur last year for uses similar to yours. It's quite a contrast from running the 75 HP JD, but I've been amazed what the little tractor will do. It will pull most anything if you gear it down enough. You just have to go much slower under heavy loads.

I used it to pull a 2 bottom breaking plow on my garden and it never even got to normal temperature. But I went very slow .

A good 30 HP will probably do what you want; it just will take longer.


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