David Loberg Northeast Nebraska | We have 2 7810s, a 1998 and a 2001. We also have had several 8000 series. For what you are wanting to do with it, go with an 8000 series. The one 7810 we used for spraying and planting. We had a 90' 3pt boom and sidequests for spraying, and we pulled a 16/31 Kinze with it. The problem was getting the power to the ground, they are a light tractor. It's good for some applications, but not draft work. We had to have the saddle tanks over half full to be able to pull hills a lot of times. We had a 674 grain cart on it, and that was about all it wanted. We tried our 880 once, and it pushed it down the hill, that was the last of that. They also lack the cooling system for heavy work. If you work them extremely hard under heavy load, they will get hot on you. The 98 has the quad range, and the 01 has the E range, the extra speed is nice when hauling on the road. We've since gone to 8Rs and 9Rs for field work, and the 7810s are used for feedwagon and manure spreading duties. That's where they shine, in livestock use. They will take a beating and keep on ticking. They are small, nimble, and have plenty of power/traction for those applications. The 1998 has 14200ish hrs and hasn't been touched, we put a transmission in the 2001 at 9k, but the first 4000 hours it was on a loader cleaning yards with a shuttle shift til we bought a payloader (no idea why we didn't do that sooner) and it took a beating. For the work you described, go 8000 series. If the budget alllows and can find a machine that would be in your price range, the 8X30 series was the best for us so far, we had an 8430 that was our best tractor we've had. 8320 was good, but didn't have the integrated autosteer valve, and had drivetrain issues, but that may have just been ours I realize. Can't go wrong with a clean taken care of 8000-8010 series either though.
Edited by dalobe01 11/21/2017 09:40
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