Lets see your Mahindra!

   / Lets see your Mahindra! #241  
Re: Lets see your Mahindra! Another use for a tractor.

My Wife thinks raising your own food is healthy and fun. I think it is expensive and a lot of labor.

Your wife is correct, raising your own food is much healthier and can be a lot of fun..... On the other hand you are right it can be expensive, time and labor intensive..... That is if you are gardening in the traditional fashion of tilling or plowing and cultivating in the spring, and continually weeding and watering.

last year my wife and I researched and form of gardening that upon first glance seemed to be to good to be true, but after reading reviews from 100's of people all over the world we decided to give it a go.

Its called "Back To Eden Gardening" and there are a lot of You-tube videos out there from folks that have tried it. Here is the official site for it: Back To Eden OFFICIAL FILM on Vimeo

This was our first year trying it and the results were amazing. Here in Maine we have had one of the worst drought spring and summers the State has seen in 30 years. Everyone complained about how poorly their crops and gardens produced this year. Our garden however was an overwhelming success, and that was with no plowing, no tilling almost no weeding and even during a drought summer no watering. My wife canned double the amount that she normally does each year, we gave away a whole bunch and I fed my pigs on our excess for days.
We ended up pulling bean, pepper, tomato, squash, melon, and pea plants out of the ground just to stop them from producing any more veggies. And best of all now that we have pulled the plants, the garden is ready for planting in the spring and I don't have to worry about plowing, tilling, cultivation, fertilizing or anything all we need to do is plant our seeds and watch it grow... If the claims are true the bounty of the garden will continue to increase each year with minimal work on my part.

Watch the video and if you still have questions please PM me.

This truly shows that when you do things the way God intended life is so much easier......
 
   / Lets see your Mahindra! #242  
Now back to tractor pics...
 
   / Lets see your Mahindra! #243  
Okay, Tractor PICS....

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   / Lets see your Mahindra! #245  
Ah 2555...
 
   / Lets see your Mahindra! #246  
2555 shuttle, I got it in Feb 2016 and I have right around 2015 hours on it.
 
   / Lets see your Mahindra! #249  
2555 shuttle, I got it in Feb 2016 and I have right around 2015 hours on it.

In the photo with the pallets on the forks; is it a one piece design, or one pallet atop the other?
 
   / Lets see your Mahindra! #250  
Oops... I said 2015 and I meant to say 215 hours

215 hours is a fair amount in a year.
One of our friends have a new 2555. That Snowplow looks a lot like mine except I have snow deflector on the top edge.
I have Cab ENVY.
 
   / Lets see your Mahindra! #251  
In the photo with the pallets on the forks; is it a one piece design, or one pallet atop the other?

Yes that pallet in the 1st picture is a one piece but I soon realized that wasn't the way to go when driving over uneven ground, so I started building them 1/2 that size and stacking them when I put them in the wood shed.

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Each box used 2 pallets and 2ea 1"X6"X8' poplar boards that I milled last year. I split the poplar boards to 1"X3" and used them on the corners, along the top and bottom where I needed the extra strength.
 
   / Lets see your Mahindra! #252  
I upgraded from a Craftsman GT5000 garden tractor to a Mahindra 1533. The 1533 gave us access to our land.
After cutting the lawn, I moved on to cutting/clearing brush and we had us a nice evening igniting the burn pile from the scraps.

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   / Lets see your Mahindra! #253  
   / Lets see your Mahindra! #254  
Now that is a nice looking tractor.... I bet my wife would like one of those..... the 2555 is MINE!!!

Are you saying I bought a girly tractor?
 
   / Lets see your Mahindra! #255  
Are you saying I bought a girly tractor?

LOL..... No not at all... My wife is quite the outdoors type, I call her my pioneer woman, she has raised 4 scrapping boy and would probably kick all our butts.... but she is only 4' 8" tall and she would be able to climb up on that one...
 
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Girret, what brand is that winch. I know the owner of Hudson who sells uniforest. Do you feel it is good for firewood etc? And skid plate on your tractor?
 
   / Lets see your Mahindra! #260  
Mike69440, that max can lift a lot. When I was a kid, we borrowed my friends grandfather's tractor. I think it was an international 444 or similar. We had that thing standing on end pulling wagons of 8 foot logs over stumps etc. Lucky we weren't killed. We were pretty rough on that tractor. They were heavy good built tractors. Now that I bought this little one for my mother who since passed I'm a little more gentle. Maybe more wary on what they can do. I'd load my forks up with 4 foot wood and fill the bucket and gently roll down a make shift trail to the truck road. Seemed good. I'd go slower then low gear would allow with the hydro peddle to the floor. Skid plate was a good piece of mind. A logging winch would be nice
 

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