Wives using the tractor

Billc · Nov 4, 2000

Glory be, it is drizzling outside. First rain we've had in a while. But that is not the point.

Got to wondering how many of y'all have wives that use the tractor.

Got thinking about this 3 days ago. I had already taken my shower. Drove my wife down to feed the horses. On the way back I realized I had left the tractor in the area I'm seeding new pasture. The tractor was dusty as hell. I didn't want to drive it back to the pole barn...I had just taken my shower and would have been covered with dust from blow back as I drove. My wife, who hadn't showered yet, said she'd drive it back. She got out and I drove the truck up to the house. I was standing out front, the sun was just going down, and my wife was coming up the drive on the tractor. She looked great. I waved and she waved back...with the loader bucket!

There is nothing like driving up the drive way and seeing my wife cutting the pastures, or clearing an area of rock, or on her way to feed the horses, etc.

So anyone else have a tractor wife?

TWINKLE_TOES · Nov 4, 2000

Bill,
Good story/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif My wife wanted no part of my other tractors, but the new Kubota did catch her eye. She runs the front loader better than I. she uses it as the biggest wheel barrow on the place. Loads fire wood on the front porch over the railing. She hasen't taken a fancy to the backhoe yet but it will just be a matter of time until she will be digging and planting bulbs. Is there a squeegee that fits the bucket? Maybe I can get her to do windows.

Thomas · Nov 4, 2000

Bill,
That was great to read...warming.
A friend of mine wife also uses there tractor..mowing,scaping the driveway etc..
Yep more and more women are useing also buying tractors,just like uppermich Pat.

Thomas..NH /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

TexasJeff · Nov 5, 2000

My wife uses our tracor to clean out her barn, spread dirt dig post holes disc her horse pen ect. I was gonna trade my IH 254 in on a larger tractor but My wife informed me that if I got another tractor the IH was staying also. It would be Her's I got lucky with my Wife she drives tractors, 14 yd dump trucks ect. Not bad for an Accountant!! this is one of those posts that does not just belong to one brand

uppermich · Nov 5, 2000

Well, I'm not married, but I'm definitely a tractor woman! I've had a '49 Farmall M for 10 years and just got my Kubota Grand L 3710 on Wednesday afternoon. Only put 12 hours on it so far, but like a new baby, people keep dropping by to see it so that eats into my day /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif.

Up till yesterday I also had 3 trucks (sold one), a car, a fishing boat, row boat, pedal boat, and a 3 year old 32x48 shop building filled with all kinds of tools and toys. I do the maintenance on everything and even do my own building projects (am building new frames for the barn windows right now). Woodworking is similar to sewing in a lot of ways.
Oh, I'm also a computer support person (both hardware and software).
In spite of my masculine interests, I'm ALL woman , and don't you forget it! /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

Pat (Techno-Tractor Mom)

Anonymous Poster · Nov 5, 2000

Pat, congrats on your new tractor.

LazyK · Nov 5, 2000

Bill, I'm glad to meet a man who appreciates the beauty of his wife operating the tractor.
There is a special feeling of peace of mind when a feller knows that his partner, his mate, can and will crank up the Power Critter and make hay while the sun shines.
I guess that's why Sandee, my wife of 34 years, lets me cook and do the laundry.
Of real help to her, was my purchasing a JD 4200 HST. The 1050 She & I operated previously, was hard on her back when she had to cycle in and out of forward/reverse and operate the bucket loader. I was quick to let her know that if we picked up an HST, she could get a lot more work done. She even let me buy the 4200 before I sold the 1050. (dangerous temptations to have'em both cluttered my thinking, just a little) Anyway, I have developed a wireless communication and TV monitoring system which, hopefully, will allow me to watch the football game and simply switch to the closed-circuit audio/video channel so I can instruct Sandee in the finer points of tractor operations. I'll be proposing this great idea to her, today, so she'll be ready to power-on with the work when the really good games are on. Yes, and pigs will fly out my you-know-what!
Seriously, it's amazing what you-all can get done with your wife on the tractor while you break trail. It's a good feeling to know someone will operate your 'baby' like you would.

Lazy K - Chip

Thomas · Nov 5, 2000

Pat {uppermich} and Jeff wife do have a mine of there own..which is great. /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif
Indeed today tractors are not just for us guys,for women have been work standing beside men for a very long time...50/50 /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

Thomas..NH /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

Billc · Nov 6, 2000

LazyK, are you serious about the wireless TV monitoring system? I ask because I am looking for just such a system for my place. We have had 2 breakins in our area within the past month. They caught the guy. A breakin, considering where we live in the country, is unheard of. But it got me to thinking and I have decided to get a monitoring system that is activated my hidden motion sensors. I have a good bit of farm equipment and tools. My wife and I go on trips in our fifth wheel for upto two months at a time. Figured I had better do something.

uppermich · Nov 6, 2000

Larry,

http://www.x10.com/products/sk10a_deal.htm

Once you buy anything from them, you'll be bombarded with emails, but the stuff is inexpensive. They have "deals" continuously, and every so often they give away a starter kit for first time visitors from the www.X10.com page. I have one of the cams (the Anaconda) overlooking my barn with a remote sensor that sets off a chime. I got it to monitor when the bobcat was coming to raid the henhouse, but it really doesn't work so great at night unless you have a good yard light over the area.

Pat (Techno-Tractor Mom)