Starting over - the allure of country!

[ultrarunner]

Hard to say but many I know are waiting until Medicare eligible...

 

[nikerret]

Are you still in the same County you were in, in 2007?

If so, I’m not too far from you.

 

[thunderworks]

Are you still in the same County you were in, in 2007?

If so, I’m not too far from you.

Yes. Douglas County.

 

[Jstpssng]

Hard to say but many I know are waiting until Medicare eligible...

That will be one consideration for me. I don't have enough set aside to cover the cost of a decent health insurance policy on my own.

 

[thunderworks]

OP here . . . just an update.

My project is off to a good start. A local excavator company is building a pond, and a machine storage building (28 X 36' with an additional lean-to on the long side) has been built. I've also already started planting native grasses and forbs and have ordered for Spring delivery oak and cedar trees from the Kansas forestry department.

I ended up ordering a new L3301, grapple, mower etc when I was unable to find a good used tractor anywhere close to Kansas. Kubota really sucks you in in with zero percent financing. Buying used didn't make any economic sense, even if I had found a machine spec'd reasonably close to what I decided on.

I'll try to get a few pictures posted soon. We've named the place "Camp Freddie" after my goofy dog who seems to love the place even more than I do.

 

[Jstpssng]

Thank you for checking back in. You'll like your new tractor... I've worked the out of mine doing more than I should with it.
Just remember that it isn't your old 5030...

 

[tradosaurus]

If I had 30 acres to play on I'd want an L because it would set a bit higher and get around a bit better. Where is your acreage, I might come and help!!

I got rid of my L3301 and went to a MX5400, not only for the added PTO hp but the underside protection. I bent 2 hydraulic filters on the L3301.

 

[rScotty]

OP here . . . just an update.
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My project is off to a good start. I've also already started planting native grasses and forbs and have ordered for Spring delivery oak and cedar trees from the Kansas forestry department.
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I remember ordering a "few hundred trees" native trees from the State Forestry Service.....That was a few decades ago. Then one day I got a message at work to come pick them up at the fairgrounds. So I rounded up a friend and took our farm truck to an address literally coverd with trees in pots. It was like springtime in a garganuan Home Depot tree nursery department.

I backed up the truck, showed them my receipt, and in a few minutes a clerk brought out my "hundreds of trees".....and handed then to me a couple of shoe boxes. Turns out I'd ordered "bare root seedlings". I could hold twenty in one hand....

My buddy couldn't stop laughing. He insisted that the "hundreds of trees" all ride home with us on the front seat. Which they did.

Once planted, it turned out that since they were "native species", every plant and bug already living there was born knowing all about how to compete with and defeat our seedlings. The ones that made it a few years at least lived and thrived long enough to be eaten. After five years all that remained was a couple of hundred bare spots...spots about the size of a small tree.

Maybe next time I'll ask the Forestry Service if they have a nasty "Invasive Species Mix". Something you'd find growing in a bar ditch.... I'm still looking to grow some hedge rows & wind breaks. But for doing that we need plants with an attitude.

rScotty

 

[dodge man]

Sounds like you got a nice machine. Good luck on the project.

 

[thunderworks]

I want to add some pictures of the pond build but can't figure out how to do that . . . can anybody help?