What Farm Quad to Buy

I've a polaris 2wd. Bogged it and had to get towed out with a jeep. Depends on your land type of you need 4wd. If you're ground is soft or steep in places I'd get 4wd. They are heavy buggers to move if they get stock.

Otherwise 2wd is fine.

I think that the fella that has the regenerative farming you tube channel has a cf moto and does a lot of work with it. He has a review of it on his channel. Can't remember his name though.

Thanks I’ll look him up. I see some Honda quads and there is a gear stick to the left of the seat, just above where your knee would be. Is that just for forward and reverse? I assume all manual quads are changed gear by the foot lever like a motorbike?

I don't think many are foot change. Our polaris has a lever at fuel tank level which is used to select between high/low/neutral/park/reverse.

Cfmoto is similar. Not sure about the Honda.

You’d get away with a 350/400. If you were topping, spreading fertilizer etc you’d need a 500

I think most of the newer ones are electronic shift between gears say something like a thumb button beside the handlebar grip. To go from 1st to 2nd etc, the big leaver by the knee is to select hi,low, and reverse only. I know the newer Yamaha say 2010 onwards maybe have a thing called a CVT transmission where it's basically an automatic. You can hold it in certain gears or just rev it up and go.

I'm looking out for one a while now. Nothing only broken junk under 3.5k at least in the 4x4 450 up range. A bad one will break your heart and be parked up half the time.