Wives using the tractor

[Billc]

Glory be, it is drizzling outside. First rain we've had in a while. But that is not the point.

Got to wondering how many of y'all have wives that use the tractor.

Got thinking about this 3 days ago. I had already taken my shower. Drove my wife down to feed the horses. On the way back I realized I had left the tractor in the area I'm seeding new pasture. The tractor was dusty as hell. I didn't want to drive it back to the pole barn...I had just taken my shower and would have been covered with dust from blow back as I drove. My wife, who hadn't showered yet, said she'd drive it back. She got out and I drove the truck up to the house. I was standing out front, the sun was just going down, and my wife was coming up the drive on the tractor. She looked great. I waved and she waved back...with the loader bucket!

There is nothing like driving up the drive way and seeing my wife cutting the pastures, or clearing an area of rock, or on her way to feed the horses, etc.

So anyone else have a tractor wife?

 

[TWINKLE_TOES]

Bill,
Good story/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif My wife wanted no part of my other tractors, but the new Kubota did catch her eye. She runs the front loader better than I. she uses it as the biggest wheel barrow on the place. Loads fire wood on the front porch over the railing. She hasen't taken a fancy to the backhoe yet but it will just be a matter of time until she will be digging and planting bulbs. Is there a squeegee that fits the bucket? Maybe I can get her to do windows.

 

[Thomas]

Bill,
That was great to read...warming.
A friend of mine wife also uses there tractor..mowing,scaping the driveway etc..
Yep more and more women are useing also buying tractors,just like uppermich Pat.

Thomas..NH /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

 

[TexasJeff]

My wife uses our tracor to clean out her barn, spread dirt dig post holes disc her horse pen ect. I was gonna trade my IH 254 in on a larger tractor but My wife informed me that if I got another tractor the IH was staying also. It would be Her's I got lucky with my Wife she drives tractors, 14 yd dump trucks ect. Not bad for an Accountant!! this is one of those posts that does not just belong to one brand

 

[uppermich]

Well, I'm not married, but I'm definitely a tractor woman! I've had a '49 Farmall M for 10 years and just got my Kubota Grand L 3710 on Wednesday afternoon. Only put 12 hours on it so far, but like a new baby, people keep dropping by to see it so that eats into my day /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif.

Up till yesterday I also had 3 trucks (sold one), a car, a fishing boat, row boat, pedal boat, and a 3 year old 32x48 shop building filled with all kinds of tools and toys. I do the maintenance on everything and even do my own building projects (am building new frames for the barn windows right now). Woodworking is similar to sewing in a lot of ways.
Oh, I'm also a computer support person (both hardware and software).
In spite of my masculine interests, I'm ALL woman , and don't you forget it! /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif


Pat (Techno-Tractor Mom)

 

[Anonymous Poster]

Pat, congrats on your new tractor.

 

[LazyK]

Bill, I'm glad to meet a man who appreciates the beauty of his wife operating the tractor.
There is a special feeling of peace of mind when a feller knows that his partner, his mate, can and will crank up the Power Critter and make hay while the sun shines.
I guess that's why Sandee, my wife of 34 years, lets me cook and do the laundry.
Of real help to her, was my purchasing a JD 4200 HST. The 1050 She & I operated previously, was hard on her back when she had to cycle in and out of forward/reverse and operate the bucket loader. I was quick to let her know that if we picked up an HST, she could get a lot more work done. She even let me buy the 4200 before I sold the 1050. (dangerous temptations to have'em both cluttered my thinking, just a little) Anyway, I have developed a wireless communication and TV monitoring system which, hopefully, will allow me to watch the football game and simply switch to the closed-circuit audio/video channel so I can instruct Sandee in the finer points of tractor operations. I'll be proposing this great idea to her, today, so she'll be ready to power-on with the work when the really good games are on. Yes, and pigs will fly out my you-know-what!
Seriously, it's amazing what you-all can get done with your wife on the tractor while you break trail. It's a good feeling to know someone will operate your 'baby' like you would.

Lazy K - Chip

 

[Thomas]

Pat {uppermich} and Jeff wife do have a mine of there own..which is great. /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif
Indeed today tractors are not just for us guys,for women have been work standing beside men for a very long time...50/50 /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

Thomas..NH /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

 

[Billc]

LazyK, are you serious about the wireless TV monitoring system? I ask because I am looking for just such a system for my place. We have had 2 breakins in our area within the past month. They caught the guy. A breakin, considering where we live in the country, is unheard of. But it got me to thinking and I have decided to get a monitoring system that is activated my hidden motion sensors. I have a good bit of farm equipment and tools. My wife and I go on trips in our fifth wheel for upto two months at a time. Figured I had better do something.

 

[uppermich]

Larry,

http://www.x10.com/products/sk10a_deal.htm

Once you buy anything from them, you'll be bombarded with emails, but the stuff is inexpensive. They have "deals" continuously, and every so often they give away a starter kit for first time visitors from the www.X10.com page. I have one of the cams (the Anaconda) overlooking my barn with a remote sensor that sets off a chime. I got it to monitor when the bobcat was coming to raid the henhouse, but it really doesn't work so great at night unless you have a good yard light over the area.



Pat (Techno-Tractor Mom)

 

[roysallis]

My wife uses our tractor as much or more than I do. Probably more since she goes to our farm during the day when I am working at the office. She really enjoys using the FEL but I think her favorite thing to do is uses the brush cutter.

 

[dmccarty]

Hmmm, I'm going to start up a thread in Rural about TV Monitoring systems, Security, and Trail Trackers since we
are a bit off topic for this area.

See Ya Over There...
Dan McCarty

 

[Anonymous Poster]

Pat,

I don't have quite the real tractors you have (or a wife), but I've done my share of maintenance and building too. It too thoght it quite similar to sewing - measure and cut and piece together - just different materials. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif Good tools are a girl's best friend!

Mary
The very pleased and proud new owner of a slightly used G1900S. And thanks to all you on these forums for helping me to make the decision and jump to a baby Kubota - you answered all my questions without me ever having to do more than lurk.

 

[Anonymous Poster]

Mary,We own a B2710 and a G1900S,the 1900 is my "wifes" Kubota.She enjoys getting outside and helping out with all the mowing we do.

 

[art]

Bill these tractors have gotten so easy to drive many of my customers wives drive there tractors and do mowing,cleaning the snow from the driveway and other chores as well.

 

[WVBill]

I'm not sure "easy to drive" is a requirement for a wife or any other female to use a tractor. There are many females out there who I'm sure can handle a tractor much better than I can.

My wife doesn't drive my tractor or my lawn mower or run my power tools. She doesn't use the computer much and has trouble with more than two buttons on the TV remote. But I have no less respect and love for her. She stitches beautiful quilts, makes finely detailed ceramic pieces and crafts wonderful wreaths and other home decorations. She does what she enjoys and I do what I enjoy and we share life's drudgeries that niether of us enjoy. We also share things we enjoy together - like sitting on the back porch watching the sunset.

WVBill

 

[Bird]

WVBill, I married a gal from West Virginia myself; sounds like my wife. As far as I know she's never touched a tractor, much less gotten on one, never uses any of my power tools, and never uses the computer. I work on raising things I can either eat or sell, she does the cooking, canning, freezing, housework, and she does the house plants, decorations, flowers outside, and anything else for looks./w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif I've always said you probably couldn't find two people more different in personality and personal likes and dislikes than we are, but we kinda enjoy each other's company or we wouldn't have stayed married for 35 years./w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

Bird

 

[art]

WVBill you are right about what you said. I've found that some women who never had any desire to drive a tractor to mow a lawn or to do virtually anything regarding a tractor have started to. Yes, I know women who can drive as good as any man and they can drive some of the older tractors that were as user freindly as a old bull. That doesn't mean that there are some who just enjoy doing other things as you have mentioned. I know when I bring a tractor home to play I'm not going to let my wife play with them until I get tired of it. She already found out that she can mow the lawn and no one bothers her so I've lost that. Don't know if I can afford to teach her more because than I won't have any fun. Guess I'm glad she doesn't enjoy landscaping. She doesn't really like snow and cold so I guess the boys and I can still do that. She does a good job in the house so she gets the inside and likes to mow the lawn and I get to deal with the roof over our heads and the yard work. To bad she doesn't like heights!

 

[WVBill]

Art: You hit on another reason why I'm glad my wife doesn't enjoy my tractors - I DO!

 

[bpence]

It's funny, my wife has absolutely no desire to do anything associated with tractors, power tools, or other constructive/destructive toys I might have around. Her definition of a power tool is a multi-purpose vacuum cleaner. She's perfectly happy to take care of the house and flower gardens around our place, and in fact will often "shoo" me out of the house when I offer to help with some of the housework. Says I just get in her way and don't I need to change the oil on something or other out in the barn. I guess that's why my stuff always has clean oil. My wife says I should go change it, again.

Bob Pence