excuse to use the tractor

[JJT]

William, I do the same thing - although I have an 800"+ driveway. I also use the tractor to do fence patrol on the back 40. Seat time is a good thing.

 

[crown]

Hay rides are always popular with the kids!!!

Have fun and keep on tractoring.

 

[Joyce]

To Pete and others posting here...I think I'm a bit jealous of the implied free time on all of your free hands. /w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif Seems every time I get behind the wheel of my new baby, I've got some chore that could have been done yesterday. Well...maybe not literally, but some days!
Perhaps with winter approaching (IF it ever snows around here...it has been in the 50's and 60's...uncharacteristic for Maine in December), after my snow blowing chores are done, I will look for some of those patrol jobs around the meadow. And I DO have a mail box at the end of a 900' driveway/w3tcompact/icons/cool.gif.

 

[Paul_in_CT]

Joyce I am with you. I have about 10 "past due" jobs for the tractor and I haven`t even taken delivery of the thing yet!! I`m curious how does the post hole digger work in the maine soil? I`m in CT and have considered getting one. I`m hoping it works better mounted to the tractor than the human helicopter one can rent. /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

 

[Thomas]

Joyce,
Sooner or later mother nature will spread her white blanket upon us in the northeast /w3tcompact/icons/crazy.gif lets hope its not her heavy blanket this season. /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif
Take time to go puttering on your tractor,for thats the best time to relax. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif
What model is your Farmall?

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

 

[Boondox]

Clementine has contributed to my efficiency so much that chores that used to take all weekend (like mowing the meadow) can now be finished in half a day. Besides, there are some chores that are seasonal in the extreme. This leaves me with a couple of periods of slack time each year. Like now. I know winter is around the corner somewhere, so have put the mower, chainsaw, logging winch, log splitter, etc away and put the chains on that big 3010 before the cold hits. It's much better to put chains on before the metal gets so cold it sticks to your flesh! /w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif/w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif The trick is to time it so you don't lose any productive summer tractor time. I obviously misjudged the onset of this winter. /w3tcompact/icons/crazy.gif

Pete

www.GatewayToVermont.com

 

[GlueGuy]

Mine's easier: the mailbox is 4,000' away. I could say it was a "patrol", or I could say I'm picking up the mail (or the paper), or I could use the FEL to take the garbage down to the end of the drive, or I could say that I need to make sure that battery's charged. Heck, any of those excuses work for me. /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

Easiest one lately is to "clear the ditches". With 4000' of driveway, it's too long to even think about raking the leaves off the driveway. I let mother nature move them into the ditch, then I run a real light pass with the boxblade to gather them up en' mass. Works for me. Lucy doesn't complain either.

How's that old song go? Diesel smoke.... Dangerous curves. /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

The GlueGuy

 

[genelp]

It was fun to see all of the excuses to use the tractor, (my wife even enjoyed reading them). I guess I need to use my imagination more. Hmm, I wonder... nah its to far to where I work./w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

 

[Westbilly]

The entry door into my house from the garage is pretty high, several steps. I used the FEL to bring in the groceries once. It was better than making several trips. Now that has to be the most original.

2410 FEL LA352

 

[Pks]

"...can catch me w/the rider mower"

I can just see it, a day at the races.

 

[Jeff396]

We just bought a house with what I thought was a cool setup at first. We have two two car garages. One is on the basement level at one end of the house. The other is on the next level up at the other end of the house. The only thing that didn't occur to me was that with only one set of tools this would make wrenching a pain. I was spoiled with my last garage...1300 sq ft four car with two 30 ft deep stalls being 12 ft high. Soooo, now when I want to work on the Vette or the Bird, which reside upstairs, I get out the tractor and pile all of the tools I think I will need into the fel. you know, the heavier stuff...floor jack, jack stands, tool box and any parts I will need. Anything that I forget, if it's not too big, I can haul through the house.....much to my wifes dismay. I told her to look on the bright side...at least I'm not working on the motorcycles in the living room anymore. Sure makes life easier than hefting everything around by hand one at a time!/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif Oh, and our upstairs garage is built over a room in the basement with steel I-beams and metal covered by cement for the garage floor. What do youall think about lowering a car down into this room and driving another on top?/w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif I can just sense my wifes hair getting grayer!!!

Jeff

 

[AldenMiller]

I was half joking when I suggested it but I got to use my b7500 this weekend when we removed an old freezer from my basement. After a friend of mine and I struggled to get the freezer over to the stairs we realized that there was no way we were going to be able to lift it up the stairs. We ended up laying a couple of 2 x 4's on the steps put a retriever strap around the freezer and hooked it to the back of the tractor with a chain. In about ten seconds we had the freezer out in the driveway and no damage. -Alden

 

[Egon]

Allden:
I can remember my dad doing the same thing with a freezer about 50 years ago but he used an Alice Chalmers model B for the pulling. By the way the name on the freezer was International.
Egon

 

[Anonymous Poster]

<font color=blue>...Alice Chalmers model ...</font color=blue>

We had an Alice Chalmers in school... and she certainly wasn't any model.../w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

But those Allis-Chalmers tractors were great... /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif
{busting your chops Egon.../w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif}

 

[genelp]

I'm not sure if this is the right forum for this question but here goes. Has anyone tried using their tractor to pull cattaills out of a pond? Pulling one at a time takes forever. I've been thinking of trying to fabricate something to attach to my tractor that would pull several at a time along with the root system. This would save my back and of course, be a good excuse for some riding time! /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

 

[Harv]

<font color=blue>using tractor to pull cattaills out of a pond?</font color=blue>

Haven't tried it myself, but it sounds like it's worth a try. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

Two requirements, I would say -- use a long enough tow strap or whatever so's your tractor doesn't wind up in the pond, and take plenty of pictures to share with your TBN buddies. /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif