Roswell Bob
Solar Enthusiast
Since this forum is living advice I would bring up tractor. It is good investment.
When figuring out what your going to do you might want to consider tractor. Wife and I bought 40 primitive acres. It is on a snow mobile trail above a lake and so on. Driveway is near 1500' of hardpack. Hardpack is a mixture of pea stone sized chunks of granite with a whole lot of stone dust from crushing operation. It packs nice for driveways up here in the Granite state. In any case - I am sure you have a similar recipe where you live.
Anyway, we bought a Kubota about the same time we bought the lot. It has been a very valuable tool that I wouldn't be able to get along without. It is a B3200 model with a 50" bucket and a Woods backhoe with thumb. The Woods unit was about 2x the one Kubota was selling. It is a little heavy and I wish I had a slightly bigger tractor. You don't want to be carting hardpack around with the bucket with the heavy backhoe on the other end. It puts too much stress on the frame and may cause cracks and other bad shit.
I use the thumb to pick up fallen timber when I make firewood or clearing a down tree across the driveway. It comes in handy for other shit too.
I have a york rake that I use to maintain the driveway. I also have a post hole digger that is a piece of shit. Stay away from them unless you have experience with them.
We had a major snow storm early last year and neither of my plow trucks were operational. I used that Kubota to clear near 30" of snow off my 1500' driveway. Took me all day, but we would have been snow bound without the Kubota. Kubota is 4WD and I have chains all around. They stay on all year round. They really bite good on almost anything.
If you run your car off the road a tractor can most often get it back on. I once moved an outhouse with it.
So there ya go. If you are that far off grid then a tractor may be what you need.
When figuring out what your going to do you might want to consider tractor. Wife and I bought 40 primitive acres. It is on a snow mobile trail above a lake and so on. Driveway is near 1500' of hardpack. Hardpack is a mixture of pea stone sized chunks of granite with a whole lot of stone dust from crushing operation. It packs nice for driveways up here in the Granite state. In any case - I am sure you have a similar recipe where you live.
Anyway, we bought a Kubota about the same time we bought the lot. It has been a very valuable tool that I wouldn't be able to get along without. It is a B3200 model with a 50" bucket and a Woods backhoe with thumb. The Woods unit was about 2x the one Kubota was selling. It is a little heavy and I wish I had a slightly bigger tractor. You don't want to be carting hardpack around with the bucket with the heavy backhoe on the other end. It puts too much stress on the frame and may cause cracks and other bad shit.
I use the thumb to pick up fallen timber when I make firewood or clearing a down tree across the driveway. It comes in handy for other shit too.
I have a york rake that I use to maintain the driveway. I also have a post hole digger that is a piece of shit. Stay away from them unless you have experience with them.
We had a major snow storm early last year and neither of my plow trucks were operational. I used that Kubota to clear near 30" of snow off my 1500' driveway. Took me all day, but we would have been snow bound without the Kubota. Kubota is 4WD and I have chains all around. They stay on all year round. They really bite good on almost anything.
If you run your car off the road a tractor can most often get it back on. I once moved an outhouse with it.
So there ya go. If you are that far off grid then a tractor may be what you need.
