One trick pony

Indydirtfarmer · Feb 9, 2005

OK...We all like to play on our tractors. (Even calling it work sometimes) If you were given the choice of doing ONE SINGLE chore with your tractor, what would it be? And WHY?

Mine would be plowing. I love the feeling of being in a big field, rolling over the dirt. The smell of fresh dirt. The smell of the exhaust. The sound of a hard working diesel engine. And the wonders of nature that you observe while out in the field. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

What's yours /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

Bowhunter · Feb 9, 2005

Tilling in preparation for planting a food plot, for many of the same reasons you stated.

bczoom · Feb 9, 2005

Well, I don't plow nor till but mine is along the same lines.

Moving and grading dirt. I've brought in about 350-400 dump trucks worth of dirt to fill in some "low spots" in the yard.

Freds · Feb 9, 2005

Anything to do with the FEL. I especially had fun helping my neighbor by digging the ground out for a pad and putting the sod in a dump truck he borrowed. I like doing things that require multi-tasking...steering with one hand, working the joystick with the other and the HST pedal with my foot.

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johan3400 · Feb 9, 2005

Mowing Hay is my favorite. The smell of freshly mowed hay is great and starting into a large field and progressing across until done makes my day. As some of eluded to in other posts that is when I say "God's in His heaven and alls right with the world."

Soundguy · Feb 9, 2005

Mowing!

Soundguy

getut · Feb 9, 2005

I don't get the same pleasure from finish mowing, but bush hogging/rotary cutting trips my trigger. Theres something about the sound of the big burly slow spinning chunk of metal thrashing stuff that is cool. Finish mowing is loud and buzzy and monotonous.

Oh.. anything on the 3ph that reconfigures dirt in some fashion came in second and FEL use actually comes in third for me even though it is typically the most useful of all the things I can do with the tractor.

Indydirtfarmer · Feb 9, 2005

( Well, I don't plow nor till but mine is along the same lines.

Moving and grading dirt. I've brought in about 350-400 dump trucks worth of dirt to fill in some "low spots" in the yard. )

Musta been one heckofa "low spot". /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

JerryG · Feb 9, 2005

Excavation. I have rather be reshapeing the earth than just about anything. When I have time and I don't have a need to move any dirt at my farm, I go to my In-Laws and move dirt at their place. /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

Mith · Feb 9, 2005

brush cutting - the satisfaction of seeing the brush disappear under the front and not come out the back /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

bczoom · Feb 9, 2005

( Musta been one heckofa "low spot". /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif )

Yep. Almost 2 acres and there was a pond in there as well.

Casco1 · Feb 9, 2005

I don't have a farm so I haven't had the experiences some of you have had. Mowing doesn't do much for me, but snow removal does. Every time we get a 12"-18" storm (there's another coming tonight) the road plows push 3 to 5 foot banks of hard, iced snow onto my property blocking my driveways and sidewalks and no matter how well you clean they would be around and do it again. With my tractor L3710 I finally move it to where they can't get to it to put it back, my wife says it's a control thing. I've always liked being outside in the winter wether it was shoveling or the snowblower I just did not like cleaning the same area two and three times. So this has to be my favorite task. /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

kensfarm · Feb 9, 2005

That's a tuff one.. I like them all!

Cultivating.. nothing like looking a young field of corn that's just been cultivated.

tough451 · Feb 9, 2005

Gotta go with the hay mowing.although almost any job on the Massey is more fun than work.

Mark4510 · Feb 9, 2005

I like most of the work I do on my tractor. The two I like the most, however, are dragging the arena and grading our gravel roads.

I like getting the arena worked up correctly and getting it smooth. Not sure why.....I just like making patterns in the sand. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

I also like grading the gravel roads we have because I have to use some skill to get it smooth so my fillings dont fall out while I drive to the barn....

Mark

farmermatt · Feb 9, 2005

i would have to say cultivating corn/beans with the 8 row cultivator and 4640. theres nothing like sitting in the tractor with the a/c and radio on, on a hot summer day.

matt

Freds · Feb 9, 2005

I would put mowing second, right behind FEL use for me, even though it's done on my smaller "tractor".
You mow one way one time, a different way the next. You see if you can knock any time off by varying your cutting pattern. I wouldn't call it monotonous. It's almost like fishing when you aren't catching anything. It gives you time to relax and think while you are still doing something and being somewhat creative. Brush hogging is pretty much up the row, down the row for me, but I like that, too. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

Henro · Feb 9, 2005

If you were given the choice of doing ONE SINGLE chore with your tractor, what would it be? And WHY?


Indydirtfarmer,

I had the greatest difficulty finding an answer to this simple question! /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

Then it finally registered! The answer is so clear now I don't know how I could not have seen it immediately!

ENOUGH! of your trick questions! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

There are no chores related to tractors. All chores relate to not having a tractor to help one with his chores!

Obviously, there is no correct answer to your question... /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

JJT · Feb 9, 2005

Without a doubt - snow blowing, especially if it's deep and wet. 1 pass down the drive and a half pass up and I'm done, (78" rear mount blower). I have an 800' drive with another 4000 sq feet of parking area and turnout. Going from being snowed in to having a nice clean drive in less than 45 minutes is fantastic. No snow banks to push back or to block visibility is really nice. If the snow is wet it will fly 60'+.

I just crunched the numbers, if I have 18" of wet snow, I'm moving over 50 tons of material in well under an hour. If it were dirt or crushed stone, I'd be hard pressed to move a quarter of that in an hour.

We're due for 18" of heavy wet snow tonight. Buckle up, tomorrow will be fun.

OkeeDon · Feb 9, 2005

Power hoist/wheelbarrow. The best use of my tractor for me is to lift and transport "stuff" using the FEL. It might be dirt, it might be trash, it might be building materials, it might be tools, but I no longer have the endurance to pick something up and carry it, so the FEL has become an extension of my body.