A Call For Humor!

[mhardy6647]

Most hobby farms don't need a lot of tractor. Better a smaller one with lots of attachments. Loader, backhoe, auger and mower for my little Massey.

They bought theirs with a six-foot field mower and a six-foot tiller. The tiller's visible in the first photo I posted. They did have a pretty big garden the first few years they were there -- but that's a lot of tiller.

Here it is on delivery day with the field mower attached.


The economics of tractors is interesting. The hobby farm (gentleman's farm) tractors (usually ca. 25 hp) are decidedly poorer values than the midline tractors. A tractor like this one is a better investment, but with only 10 acres (and no where to keep it*) it really was more tractor than we need!
It would be nice for the fall field mowing here, though.
The fellow who mows out fields for is uses a big tractor and a flail mower -- and it still takes him about half a day.

Tractors are hella cool.
Most of our neighbors have nice ones.
Some of 'em are collectors, too.



These two Internationals are still working tractors, too.

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* They had a 3-car garage (visible in the photos above) that was deep enough to hold the tractor and the field mower and close the garage door!

PS Backhoes are freaking expensive!

 

[Solveit]

 

[DonR]

PS Backhoes are freaking expensive!

Yes. My backhoe cost more than my tractor and all other attachments.

 

[mhardy6647]

Yes. My backhoe cost more than my tractor and all other attachments.

Which is why "we" never did get a backhoe!

 

[001]

What we need is a proper work-life balance.

 

[Canuck57]

 

[Canuck57]

 

[ryanosaur]

True.

A sensible approach to driving would be that it required an actual education, and that both psychiatric evaluation and an IQ test was a prerequisite for admittance.

But then the amount of drivers on the road would be reduced to almost none. Modern society would collapse...

Hordes of idiots controlling lethal weapons is a necessary evil

In cases of Doom-Boxes or Weaponry, my stock answer is: have a certificate that you got a C or better in High School Physics 1.

 

[Canuck57]

 

[Canuck57]

 

[jkasch]

Mods can delete if cursing birds break any rules.

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[Canuck57]

 

[Canuck57]

 

[Canuck57]

 

[Canuck57]

 

[Philbo King]

No but I'm a huge fan Oliver, Case, Minneapolis-Moline, Farmall, IHI, John Deer, to name a few and never miss an episode of Classic Tractor Fever on the Rural Farm Network.

You just broke Allis Chalmers heart, you cad!

 

[Philbo King]

Pfft silver wires for audio! This is an analog computer from the 1950s. Analog computers share a lot with audio - op amps, filters, gain. Analog synths also have a lot in common.

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I remember working on the L1011 jet autopilot, the only one I know of that used an analog computer.

 

[Keith_W]

 

[audiofooled]

These two Internationals are still working tractors, too.

The fact that they are still working, also not having caution, warning and danger written all over, makes the old ones more cool.

 

[Solveit]