I made my driveway with a 1969 Sear Suburban garden tractor that has a grader blade attachment. Also pushed up some pretty big piles of brush/branches with the snow plow blade.
Then I graduated to a little 18hp Mitsubishi tractor with PTO and lift arms. I built a draw bar and forks for the back and use the forks a lot. I keep anything I can outside on pallets. I built a trailer the same width as the tractor for hauling firewood out of the woods. At 42 inches wide, it will go anywhere in the woods. Tractor has been a major back and labor saver. Even the Sears Suburban was a labor saver.
Would love to have a 25/26hp Kubota with loader/backhoe but I don’t have $35k to spare.
Yeah those are beautiful rigs but priced like a Lexus LOL.
I moved to and retired from desk work, haven’t worked construction since the early 1980s, but I still miss my truck. (Although not the gasoline cost!)
A truck, a tractor and a few implements makes all the difference in the world. (Deer hunting! Augie uses his front end loader to transport venison! :)
I need to go do some garden stuff!
Popping back in.... Kubota. A good company! Used to advertise in Organic Gardening Magazine when it still existed! (IICR).
Buy used and do some trenching and grading on the side to pay for it? (Its not like you don’t have that other business....)
My brother owned a Case and used to do trenching and grading where he lived in N. Illinois. He got out of it. Expensive to maintain. He went on to working other heavy equipment for some construction companies and eventually Great Lakes Naval Base.
Maybe Augie has some thoughts on it.
(Ok back to gardening stuff.)