Anybody use a mini truck on the farm?

Been looking for a vehicle to use at the farm to keep my truck from smelling like chicken s#&t. Looked into a Kubota RTV but they're hard to come by at the moment. My father in law and my mama both have RTV's and they're very nice vehicles. Then we saw a mini truck at an auction and it got me to thinking. They seem to be more vehicle for about the same money as the RTV. The money doesn't bother me because it will be used every day and a vehicle is needed on our farm. Just wandering if any of you guys have mini trucks or have been around them? Would prefer diesel because we have a diesel tank here for tractors and loaders and it would be easier to not have to buy gas.

There's a place in Texas that sells new mini trucks with several options.

Edited by thendrix - 15 Aug 2021 at 9:44am

A neighbor got one of the roxor jeeps and now he is adding a lot of accessories so they can use it in their tiling business. so far after i year he is happy with it.

DMiller, you're absolutely right about being cramped. The one we saw at the auction, my knees almost touched the dash and my father in law wouldn't even try it. I'm not a big guy either. 5'9" 215 is all I got. They're making an "extended cab" version now and it seems to have a lot more leg room

I looked at getting one last year then COVID hit and I put it on the back burner. There was a place south of Nashville that had a warehouse full of them. They got one out for me to test drive. Weird with right hand drive but I think I could get use to it. I was wanting the Honda but the more people I talked to the more recommended the Suzuki. I was looking at the 4wd ones.

BIL is on his second one. Used daily. Can't recall him ever complaining about it

Yeah the more I think about it the more I'm leaning towards one. Have to be automatic. The wife is sure she'll never be able to drive a manual and she's going to be using it to

TomC wrote: Not to mention come deer season you have a nice toasty dry place to set. WITH a view.

Edited by DMiller - 16 Aug 2021 at 5:33pm

I'm afraid it's a lost cause Red Bank. She's already convinced she can't and she's never tried. Won't even try to drive the spreader truck across the driveway

Never did see the point of these Jap made things ,  

DougG wrote: Never did see the point of these Jap made things ,

We would use it for gathering buckets of dead chickens mostly. When they get to market age, it's not uncommon to have 4 to 6 or more 5 gallon buckets per house. With 6 houses it takes a lot of bed space that most side x sides don't have. We have an Intimidator 2500 that has a 6 ft bed that my help uses but it's open cab and pretty miserable in the winter or when it's raining.

Check out Copart for cheap beater trucks. I bought a 1996 Dakota there with some minor front end damage for about $400 last year. Some of the cars there are total wrecks, but it doesn’t take much to total a 25 year old truck. We have one from there and the neighbor has bought a couple gems

Truck is a 1972 Land Rover.  It's named "Digby". I got it from the original owner just before he passed away.  He bought it new and his kids named it.  Grand kids all learned to drive on it and it has a front mount winch to get them out when they get themselves stuck in the mudhole down the south end of the farm.