We have a 1998 29hp 4wd Kubota. Before this we had a 39 horse 4wd Zetor but decided to down size because the 29 horse is much more nimble in the woods and has all the power we really need for anything.

#1 thing I can say is don't buy one unless it's 4wd. I can't stress this enough. On top of that get a bucket loader.

Also, if you have someone local that you can trust to work on it and doesn't mind that you bought it elsewhere, ebay is your friend. I typically don't disclose this sort of stuff, but to give you an idea, our Kubota was bought about 2 years ago for roughly $5000 with about 900 hours on it and it's a 1998 model (smoking deal). It also came with a large wood trailor, and a hopper spreader designed to spread fertilizer/seed. It was owned by a golf course and was literally covered in golf ball dents, we bought it and brought to a local auto body shop to fix the body and repaint. When it was all said and done we had roughly $9,000 into it after the body work, all new paint and decals, and a brand new bucket loader installed on it, and we managed to sell the wood trailor for $1k, and the seeder/spreader for $2k. We did pretty good. [8D]

Must have implements for plots are as listed:

A good brush hog mower deck for clearing new plots
For lawns and/or clover mowinga finish mower deck
Agood wood trailor
Disc
Rake
Drop spreader (for fertilizer/lime)
I'd love to have a cultipacker but haven't used one as of yet. For now I've fabricated a drag out of an old section of chain link fence that seems to cover things nicely.

Here are some pics for you........