OffGrid2009
New member
- Joined
- Dec 7, 2010
- Messages
- 2
- Tractor
- IH 584
Hello. Actually, I'm even worse than green, I haven't even got my hands on my (first) tractor yet, it's in the paint-shop. But I'm studying everything I can find so I can get up to speed as fast as possible, hit the ground running...well...crawling anyway.
I drove a desk for Boeing for a bunch of years, finally retired this past spring. I took most of my savings and bought 80 acres of remote canyon, 2,000 feet up, eastern WA, absolutely off-grid (not even a cellular signal). Half a mile of creek, pretty, but it floods deep every spring with snow-melt, tears out some of the fence-lines...speaking of which, we have more than 2 miles of fences. We also have a quarter mile of decent gravel road, plus about a mile of indecent roads/tracks. In addition to road maintenance and fixing/widening the fords across the creek, I have several building projects waiting in the wings. I even plan to build a log cabin, 20x30 or bigger, in a few years.
I wanted a tractor with a loader and several tools for the 3-pt hitch: backhoe, snow/dirt blade, log-splitter, tiller, etc. But I decided to put it off until I really needed it. ...Well, winter came early this year -- the snow has drifted, and I can't even get down to the tiny cabin with my trusty 4x4 '77 Ford F-150. So my plans to buy a tractor (with blade) just got moved to the front.
I'll try not to ask too many questions at first. I plan to just read the posts on the threads that catch my eye, try to learn enough so that when I do ask a question, at least it might make sense to you folks. I'm sure glad you're here for idiots like me. ...Well, my 95-year old dad tells me I ain't a COMPLETE idiot...he thinks I'm missing a few parts.
I drove a desk for Boeing for a bunch of years, finally retired this past spring. I took most of my savings and bought 80 acres of remote canyon, 2,000 feet up, eastern WA, absolutely off-grid (not even a cellular signal). Half a mile of creek, pretty, but it floods deep every spring with snow-melt, tears out some of the fence-lines...speaking of which, we have more than 2 miles of fences. We also have a quarter mile of decent gravel road, plus about a mile of indecent roads/tracks. In addition to road maintenance and fixing/widening the fords across the creek, I have several building projects waiting in the wings. I even plan to build a log cabin, 20x30 or bigger, in a few years.
I wanted a tractor with a loader and several tools for the 3-pt hitch: backhoe, snow/dirt blade, log-splitter, tiller, etc. But I decided to put it off until I really needed it. ...Well, winter came early this year -- the snow has drifted, and I can't even get down to the tiny cabin with my trusty 4x4 '77 Ford F-150. So my plans to buy a tractor (with blade) just got moved to the front.
I'll try not to ask too many questions at first. I plan to just read the posts on the threads that catch my eye, try to learn enough so that when I do ask a question, at least it might make sense to you folks. I'm sure glad you're here for idiots like me. ...Well, my 95-year old dad tells me I ain't a COMPLETE idiot...he thinks I'm missing a few parts.
