It really depends on what kind of task you have and how much land and what do you need to do with the machine. I couldn’t maintain my place without a tractor with the front end loader too much lifting with a bad back.
I really do not like skid steers for working in my Orchard. My trees are 15 feet apart and I know I would take out more than one with a skid steer. Also, they tear up the ground really bad.
I am So ENVIOUS of all of you! You have compost piles. I miss that.
I have a small city lot. Had a compost pile for 28 years. 2 retired neighbors whined often that my compost pile under my arborvitae on the edge of my property was “smelly” and “unsightly”.
Funny wife and I never thought it smelled bad. Last Fall one of those neighbors turned me in to
the Ordinance/Citation Nazi and I got a letter from the city. I was to be fined $100 a day unless removed in 48 hours. One fine for a tiny brush pile and one for the compost pile.
Called the citation Nazi. Told her the village website and my annual newsletter state landowners in the city can “haul their yard refuse to the dump for composting” or “compost on their own land”.
The lady Nazi informed me the rules state “all compost piles must be in an enclosed bin, covered and must be a commercially made compost bin”. also “compost piles must not smell”.
I informed her nowhere on their annual newsletter nor the village website stated such info. Anyway had to haul the compost to the dump and the brush too.
The retired neighbor living behind me always whined about melon rinds and banana peels in my compost pile. “Yard refuse only and not kitchen waste” was her message to me over the years.
Can’t wait to retire and move out of the city. Want to live where rush hour is “2 deer and a pickup truck” and nobody whines about my compost pile. The “pile” was a whopping 4’ wide pile that was about 3’ tall.
So now into the trash goes all my vegetable Kitchen waste. Off to the landfill where it will never rot. Hope all are happy when we have to build more landfills. I guess ignorance is bliss.
Sorry for the rant. Compost is still a hot subject for me after my citations.
people need to mind there own damned business! id just bury most of it in your garden or around the trees.it will still compost and benefit them. i have a big compost pile of mostly rotting chicken manure and no one around me complains.