I've been growing tomatoes for over 20 years and I've never pinched off a bloom. Now suckers are another story and honestly the results are mixed. Basically if you take off suckers you will get fewer tomatoes but they will be bigger. Leave the suckers and get more tomatoes, but smaller.
Just bought a small JD
researched and price shopped for a few months and wound up with a pretty good deal on a used John Deere with low hours. Comparable in price to everything else I looked for, Kubota, Mahindra, IH, NH
The only people that will disagree with this are those that spent years trying to convince everyone Stans was terrible. Ten long years and we are still trying to get better results than the ones that got Stans fired. I guess we just lowered our standards.