TBN time vs. tractor time

stumpfield · Sep 15, 2006

I'm wondering how much time we spent on the tractor vs. time browing and posting on TBN? Looking at the number of posts of some members...WOW! I bet it's a lot more hours than their tractor. That's just posting alone! I ask because that's almost the 1st thing I do when I get up in the morning...turn on the computing and go to tractorbynet... When I'm away for a few days without access to the internet. As soon as I got home, I'm on it. This site is becoming addictive...

RobJ · Sep 15, 2006

Addictive yes. But real is still better.

While at work, Read/Post during free/slow time. Most of my time here.
Nights, some, not much, nothing on tv or no home event I check in.
Weekends, rarely, to many outside things to do. Maybe sunday night
Monday morning..picture posting time if I have any!

When I'm up at the weekend place....What Internet???

BTW, T-minus 2 hours and counting before I leave the office today. If goes as planned I'm on the road at 1:00, arriving Elkhart at 3:00. Swapping out the front turfs for ags (3 ribs) by 3:30, testing shortly there after. Last prep before the bow season opener on Sept 29th.

Farmwithjunk · Sep 15, 2006

stumpfield said:
I'm wondering how much time we spent on the tractor vs. time browing and posting on TBN? Looking at the number of posts of some members...WOW! I bet it's a lot more hours than their tractor. That's just posting alone! I ask because that's almost the 1st thing I do when I get up in the morning...turn on the computing and go to tractorbynet... When I'm away for a few days without access to the internet. As soon as I got home, I'm on it. This site is becoming addictive...

Most of my internet time is while I'm at work. ALL my tractor hours are at home. If TBN would have been around 30 years ago, I doubt my post count would have been quite as high. My job now has a lot of slack time at certain times of the year. Since cutting back on my farming habit, I've got a bit more free time there too.

mikim · Sep 15, 2006

Rob - don't slow down at the door - I'm right behind you -- leaving at 2 - up country by 5:30 ---- tractor service (oil chg) before dark then hit it tomorrow. It's gonna rain Sun eve early.

Gatorboy · Sep 15, 2006

stumpfield said:
I'm wondering how much time we spent on the tractor vs. time browing and posting on TBN?

It's more fun being online than sitting on a tractor cutting grass.

Unlike many on here, if I'm on my tractor that means I'm having to do mindless work instead of doing things I'd rather be doing. My tractor and skidsteer aren't toys.

MossRoad · Sep 17, 2006

Mindless work? Man, that's a bummer.

I get great satisfaction out of driving my tractor. Like any task, you only get out of it what you put into it. I try different stripe patterns in the lawn and rarely do it the same way twice in a row. Brush hogging my trails, I always see different wild life and plant life in constant seasonal change. FEL work... you never know what you're going to dig up.

Farmwithjunk · Sep 17, 2006

MossRoad said:
Mindless work? Man, that's a bummer.

I get great satisfaction out of driving my tractor. Like any task, you only get out of it what you put into it. I try different stripe patterns in the lawn and rarely do it the same way twice in a row. Brush hogging my trails, I always see different wild life and plant life in constant seasonal change. FEL work... you never know what you're going to dig up.

That "mindless work" is therapy to some of us. I get enough time in the office to satisfy me. I get enough time with my broker. I get enough stress and strain on the brain. I get enough time with all my "Mind work". That "mindless" stuff is what I enjoy the most.

Somehow I have a feeling I'm not alone in that pursuit of happiness.

AndyM · Sep 17, 2006

Gatorboy said:
It's more fun being online than sitting on a tractor cutting grass.

Unlike many on here, if I'm on my tractor that means I'm having to do mindless work instead of doing things I'd rather be doing. My tractor and skidsteer aren't toys.

When I'm on the tractor cutting the grass, I'm in deep thought, trying to figure out the great puzzle called life.
It's good for me to be outside doing something productive... sometimes surfing the internet can be a little mindless too!

scott_vt · Sep 18, 2006

Gatorboy said:
It's more fun being online than sitting on a tractor cutting grass.

Unlike many on here, if I'm on my tractor that means I'm having to do mindless work instead of doing things I'd rather be doing. My tractor and skidsteer aren't toys.

Mornin Dave,
At times sitting on the tractor is mindless but when the scenery is right and Ive got Alan Jackson playin in my earphones and a good cigar planted between my lips, lookin out into the mountains in the fall is not so bad

Maybe if I had to mow as much as you I would have a different view

knute_m · Sep 18, 2006

Farmwithjunk said:
Most of my internet time is while I'm at work. ALL my tractor hours are at home.
. . .
My job now has a lot of slack time at certain times of the year.

I'm kind of in the same boat (well, maybe on a similar tractor?)

The company where my wife and I have worked for the past seven years is closing down. I get to turn out the lights in my department in three weeks (Friday the 13th). She gets to turn out the rest of the lights on New Year's Eve.

For the past couple of months my job has been mostly baby sitting as my crew closes out all the current contracts. I must be at my computer and by the phone all day long, but I don't have a lot of work to do. So, surfing takes up a big part of my day.

I'll miss TBN when I start a new job.

Knute

P.S. Anybody have any good jobs near Winchester, VA or Martinsburg, WV for somebody with lots of RF/microwave experience?