PatrickS2222
Gold Member
- Joined
- Feb 6, 2016
- Messages
- 494
- Location
- Brisbane, Australia
- Tractor
- MF35, MF135, MF203 with loader.
Hey All, and most sincere apologies - I finally have a computer new enough to see a TBN page on! Embarrassed, but glad I can finally begin to catch up.
I really hope everyone is well. I'm also hoping nobody has been harmed by bushfires, tornadoes, floods, or anything else. That said - we've had serious bushfires almost three years ago, and two sizeable floods a couple months ago. None of us were hurt, nor was anything of ours damaged, but quite a lot of fencing was burnt on the farm where I grew up (which our family still owns) and mere inconvenience from flooded roads and 4 days of running the house and two garden flats on generator power due to mains failure was the total sum of it.
Happy also to report everyone is doing well. Jennifer is fit and healthy, her quarterly scans have all so far been clear and her specialist refers to her as "His Star Patient" and he's every bit as thrilled as we are with her progress.
Son and daughter-in-law had a house built and moved in, daughter and boyfriend bought a one-year old house and have just moved in ... so things are rather peaceful here nowadays, just the two of us and Jennifer left!
I'm back in the workshop, "on the tools" again and someone much more energetic, tolerant, enthusiastic, patient and dumb is now "running" the workshop - currently my second replacement. Some of our clientele still come into the workshop and find me!
Other than that, we're all doing reasonably well.
Oh, and one minor confession: I just last week bought another tractor - I needed something better than a 38" ride-on mower to keep 2 acres neat, something that will take less time to do it. So a friend saw on Facebook of all places a .... Shibaura S320, 20hp 3cyl diesel with ... a 60" removable under-belly mowing deck! I couldn't find a MF, or even a mid-mount deck, or even a finish mower available for any less than "an arm and a leg" so I didn't risk passing on this one. Bought for a great price because I have to put a new clutch in it before it is usable again. That's planned to be done in the next month or so - before spring begins - it's currently mid-winter here.
Both MFs are still going well, I'm sure yours are too! 135 is her same old self, our loader also a trooper. I might have described it as being a MF40 - it is in fact a MF203 industrial.
Keep safe everyone!
I really hope everyone is well. I'm also hoping nobody has been harmed by bushfires, tornadoes, floods, or anything else. That said - we've had serious bushfires almost three years ago, and two sizeable floods a couple months ago. None of us were hurt, nor was anything of ours damaged, but quite a lot of fencing was burnt on the farm where I grew up (which our family still owns) and mere inconvenience from flooded roads and 4 days of running the house and two garden flats on generator power due to mains failure was the total sum of it.
Happy also to report everyone is doing well. Jennifer is fit and healthy, her quarterly scans have all so far been clear and her specialist refers to her as "His Star Patient" and he's every bit as thrilled as we are with her progress.
Son and daughter-in-law had a house built and moved in, daughter and boyfriend bought a one-year old house and have just moved in ... so things are rather peaceful here nowadays, just the two of us and Jennifer left!
I'm back in the workshop, "on the tools" again and someone much more energetic, tolerant, enthusiastic, patient and dumb is now "running" the workshop - currently my second replacement. Some of our clientele still come into the workshop and find me!
Other than that, we're all doing reasonably well.
Oh, and one minor confession: I just last week bought another tractor - I needed something better than a 38" ride-on mower to keep 2 acres neat, something that will take less time to do it. So a friend saw on Facebook of all places a .... Shibaura S320, 20hp 3cyl diesel with ... a 60" removable under-belly mowing deck! I couldn't find a MF, or even a mid-mount deck, or even a finish mower available for any less than "an arm and a leg" so I didn't risk passing on this one. Bought for a great price because I have to put a new clutch in it before it is usable again. That's planned to be done in the next month or so - before spring begins - it's currently mid-winter here.
Both MFs are still going well, I'm sure yours are too! 135 is her same old self, our loader also a trooper. I might have described it as being a MF40 - it is in fact a MF203 industrial.
Keep safe everyone!