I did a landscaping job with similar sized flower bed... by shovel. It was the absolute hardest and frustrating job I've ever done. Wish I had a tool like this. Never again
Honestly when u bought this you have to look past small things. Fuel and lifting capacity should be nosed over in place of what all it can do and what it keeps you from paying for when it comes to work. When I bought mine I eliminated the need to beg people to help or assist me when I needed it. I cleared a lot of land of overgrowth that I would have had to pay someone else to do when they were available and the list goes on and on. That to me was worth the price of the tractor and fuel usage! Sometimes that kind of piece of mine is worth the price of admission no matter what tractor u buy!
I appreciate you putting this video together as I am interested in the inverted Snowblower business model. The frontier snowblowers have a very tempting price point. After seeing your experiences, I don’t think I will be considering it for anything more than homeowner use.
Great video keep up the hard work!! Can you do a video on how to Name your lawn care landscaping company for 2024 please that will be helpful to business owners. Thank you!!!
Definitely not overloaded. This is operator error. Might want to use the recommend psi on all four tires and always have like a box blade or a rear blade just to have that equal distribution of weight
You never buy new, I just picked up a 2017 1025r TLB for 17k, with one year of warranty left with 235 hrs on the clock. Let the initial buyer take that depreciation hit.
Thank you. Great info. I have a Kioti 75 hp, thinking of buying a pronovost. What are your thoughts Pronovost or Normand or Erskin? Thanks again. I am in the White Mountains of New Hampshire,lots of snow.
I have an example of the reason why the comment I’m replying to is correct, with a bigger tractor, a John Deere 4066r, picking up a Polaris ranger, had to use 4 wheel drive till I put the weight on the back.
You need to give updates each year. There's a lot more attachments to buy for that bad Larry. My '23 attachment list is a bit longer. 48" rotary cutter, 49" tiller, 54" Land Rake, 54" Land Plane, 48" Box blade, 54" front snow/dozer blade on the loader, Grapple, 54" HD belly mower, Reist 25PD Stump Grinder, 260 Backhoe, Hydraulic Thumb for the Backhoe, Loader bucket. I must be forgetting something....
My brother got a very good deal on a 1025r backhoe last year. He’s been using it on plumbing jobs for work mainly digging up water and septic lines. He’s already made over $3000 back with 1 year of work!
Good luck with your new venture. I've enjoyed watching you. Just a suggestion, if you haven't got anything set in stone I would suggest looking at Wright standers if there is a local dealer. I know you like John Deere real well but the Wright it is worth looking at. I've been cutting grass commercially for 25 years and it's a tough market. As I said good luck.
Thank you! I have been looking at those wright standers and I really like the ability to have a bagging system. It is equivalent to a zero turn but with the accessibility and all the benefits of stander. They are just so expensive!! Thank you!
Too big to haul to a job site if you were going to use it to make money, it's always nice to have a piece of equipment you can use at home but also use to make money elsewhere when applicable
I am in Ballarat Victoria Australia and I am seriously looking at buying a 1025r tractor with a 4 in 1 bucket, I have a Mahindra emax 25 and I am already after a year brand new looking at trading it in.
I appreciate that you make these videos, but I feel compelled to correct the record. I sell John Deere equipment, and Frontier, Pronovost, Normand, Erskin and Blue Diamond snow blowers. John Deere offers both 64” and 74” Tivar cutting edges for these inverted snowblowers. The kits are Deere numbers 5RDF0084, and 5RDF0086. The 74 inch retails for $867.91, and should be installed by professional. I have a customer with cobblestone and crushed rock surface on his driveway and doesn’t want to clear it down to the surface. Customers with asphalt driveways usually do, which is where this cutting edge comes in. I owned an inverted Pronovost Puma, and loved it. Driving over the snow and then blowing it was no problem. I now have a Erskin front-mounted snowblower and I miss having my loader and snowblower at the same time. I think this is an excellent choice for the discerning homeowner. Full disclosure, your Deere dealer should’ve informed you there is a cutting edge for your inverted snowblower. And Deere should make it easier to find, putting this optional cutting edge front and center on their quoting software. I think this is a good snowblower for a homeowner.
I appreciate you making this comment! I have pinned your comment so all new people can see it! Lot’s of people argue about the driving over it first but it really is a non issue! I have had much better scrape quality with these inverted snowblowers over just about any front mount snowblower.
