I drove it around and used the Road Boss grader on the gravel roads. That thing is awesome for the gravel roads. It didn't work so good on the dirt roads that were in bad shape though. I guess the Road Boss works best for maintaining roads.

The roads that it didn't work well on were more of a wagon trail than a road. They were just tire tracks worn down to dirt with grass growing between them.

What do you think would work best to improve those? A box blade with rippers to bust it up or a rear blade to scrape them smooth?

it is too late since you already bought it and since you said "ranch work" this should not be an issue for you

but for others I am not sure about the Deutz, but on some Euro tractors you have to watch if you are going to row crop with them because you cannot adjust the wheel/tire spacing

this is the case on many Fendt tractors which are very good tractors, but not always speced for American row cropping

again I am not sure if you can adjust the wheel spacing on the Deutz or not, but if anyone ever looks at A Fendt for row cropping keep that in mind

otherwise that should be a very good tractor if you have a dealer close by which is always important