Sleeping In The Garage

[billnj]

Well I made the decison today. I bought a new BX23, should be delivered next Saturday. After doing the math, the amount of work that I have to do on my property it's actually cheaper to buy the BX and use it for a year than rent a machine for a month. Besides what a cool thing to have in the garage. This is my first post to the site. I've been lurking around for a month trying to justify my purchase, thanks for all the good information everyone posts here.
When the wife finds out I'LL be sleeping in the garage. "Life is too short, don't sweat the small s**t".

 

[Gatorboy]

Great news, and welcome to TBN.

You may want to fill out your profile so we can all get to know you better.

 

[NY_Yankees_Fan]

Spring is here so the garage should not be too bad to sleep in... /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Where are you in NJ?

Welcome to TBN.

 

[billnj]

Thank you, I'm happy to be here. I think I updated my profile.

 

[billnj]

A cold garage with a new toy is better than a cold bed with the wife!!

I'm in Kinnelon, Morris county, right by the Morris/Passaic border.

 

[realtaildragger]

Bill, Get a set of those orange Kubota pajamas, one of those diesel burning laterns, throw a couple of cushions into the FEL and snuggle down to read the BX operating manual... she will be so jealous you will have have to get a two car garage for HER machine.

 

[NY_Yankees_Fan]

Not too many of us from NJ on TBN. Given the number of people in the state and the rural areas, YES we have rural areas in NJ. /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif I would think we would have more folks on TBN. /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

Enjoy the new Bota. Where did you get it from?

 

[GaryE]

<font color="blue"> When the wife finds out I'LL be sleeping in the garage. </font>

You won't be sorry.

I told my wife I could use the BH to plant her tulips and dig the rows for the radishes. I also told her if I have to go, the dog comes with me..... I am still here!

 

[billnj]

Powerco.
I agree about the rural areas in NJ. Too bad all that most people think of in NJ is the GSP or the turnpike. Where in Warren Cty are you? I have friends in Washingto Boro and Washington Twp, Warren Cty.

 

[NY_Yankees_Fan]

Washington Twp, Warren Cty/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[notamustang]

<font color="blue"> Too bad all that most people think of in NJ is the GSP or the turnpike</font>

You mean theres more /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Welcome to TBN and good luck with the wife /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

 

[billnj]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Bill, Get a set of those orange Kubota pajamas, one of those diesel burning laterns, throw a couple of cushions into the FEL and snuggle down to read the BX operating manual... she will be so jealous you will have have to get a two car garage for HER machine. )</font>

My wife still hasn't gotten over my #8 pajamas yet!!

 

[Von]

Bill, Its not so bad, Heck I'm living it the garage after bringing home the Unimog! I've got great company out there! (see attached photo) Von

 

[Volfandt]

Welcome, from the rest of us garage dwellers /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[PineRidge]

Bill welcome to the TBN site.

I hear tell if you raise the loader, curl the bucket back, and cover it with a blanket, that it makes a neat little couch where you can sleep. And just look at all the money you saved on the furniture you were also needing for the garage. /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

My wife had a couple of magnetic signs made for my pole barn that read "spousal avoidance unit" I'm still trying to figure out where she came up with that one.

 

[Junkman]

NJ isn't a bad place to be from. Some great people have come from Morris County NJ.... I lived in Ironia/Succasunna (Morris County) when I was a kid. I believe that we had some of the finest, largest, meanest, mosquito's living with us.... I still can remember riding my bike up the steep hill to Crowley's General Store on the Dover Chester Road, diagonally across from the fire station to get a ice cream cone. It was always fun riding down the hill to get back home.... 2 hours to get there and about 20 minutes back... /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
****..... I hate when posts like this come up, because it reminds me of how old I have become and how long ago it has been since we were young and foolish. I went back to the old family home 20 years ago and drove right by the house. It had changed so much along with the "neighborhood"... a few houses on a dirt road that was now paved and filled with new homes.... /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

 

[InlineDieselFan]

Welcome,

I guess I got it good, she decided that 'we' needed a tractor and it was her idea to build the shop, move into it and then build the house. I get toys a shop and sometime she will get a house.

We just did 90 holes to plants trees and bushes, she thought that the tractor was worth every penny already.

steve

 

[jim_wilson]

Congratulations on the new purchase. I bought my BX23 last summer and for the same reasons that you bought yours. I have almost 200 hours on it now and it has been more useful than I imagined. We really got dumped on this past winter and using the tractor to clear the driveway off has given me a whole new perspective on snow. Instead of dreading it like I used to I now look forward to getting 24" in a day because it means I get to go out and use the tractor /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif. My biggest regret with the tractor is that I don't have more land to work with. Once I am done with all the projects around here the tractor won't have much to do other than occasional mowing - and with 1/2 acre that won't last too long.

 

[PineRidge]

<font color="blue"> ****..... I hate when posts like this come up, because it reminds me of how old I have become and how long ago it has been since we were young and foolish. </font>

Junk nothing really has changed, just our method of travel. Both you and I would most likely now drive our tractors to get the ice cream.

 

[EastTexFrank]

Welcome and don't worry about sleeping in the garage, spring is amost here and besides, she'll forgive you eventually. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

The only thing is .... don't give her the opportunity to play with it. She may decide she likes it and then it'll be inside and you'll still be in the garage. /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif Even worse, when she sees that the BX can do all the grunt work that she needed a big strong man to do and do it faster, with no complaing, no meals, no laundry or any of that other stuff .... look out. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif Be very, very careful. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Enjoy your new "tool". /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif