As many do I live in a typical 3/4 acre lot in a little small town in NW Georgia. I live and work from home but I sometimes find myself wishing for a whole bunch of land. Now make no mistake I am no farmer or rancher. I grew up working on farms and I have no interest in that. But when I see these commercials about tractors on TV I have an almost overwhelming desire to buy a big green tractor and do tractor things.
I guess there is something to the scientific research on how to make a targeted ad because these commercials seriously make me want to go buy a nice shiny tractor with all the attachments and start digging holes and brush hogging and loading stuff.
Then I would have to buy a lot of land and maybe take my wife for a ride on my big green tractor, out though the field and down to the pasture, we can go slow or make it go faster.
I grew up on a cotton farm near Lubbock. I was going from one farm to the next with an 8 row tool bar attached before I had a drivers license to travel the same roads.?ÿ I have always said that if I ever won the lottery, I was gonna start farming and keep farming until all the money was gone and then go back to work.
This is the latest one that caught my eye. Might be a little crowded with you and your wife.
It was in a Ritchie Brothers auction about a month ago. To big for what I need but it still caught my eye.
The difference between men and boys is the cost of their toys.
My toy is a John Deere Z425
Fred Eaglesmith - John Deere B
I was buried to the doors in mud way in the?ÿ in middle of a field in my truck. As I sat there about pack up and walk out a huge red Ford tractor pulled up behind me hooked up to my tow strap and pulled me to dry ground. The farmer was giving his boys in looked like a brand new tractor. Everyone in the tractor was grinning ear to ear and so was I.
When I was a young kid in the early 60's, My dad would take the front end off of two Minni Mo - twin cities and bolt them together with an I beam. My mother still has some pictures of it somewhere but hasn't been able to find them.
This is about as close as I could find on the internet. Dad only used it for breaking. skid steer only
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I have always said that if I ever won the lottery, I was gonna start farming and keep farming until all the money was gone and then go back to work.
Couple years ought to do it.
Farming is the only business where you buy retail and sell wholesale.
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Oh....as I said I have less than zero interest or desire to be a farmer and I darned sure don't want to start raising animals.
I just have this urge to do tractor things.
Years ago I was watching a TV show about Bill Elliott the race car driver and in his off time he got on a small dozer and just move dirt and pushed over trees on his property. Kinda relaxing for him.
I had some developer friends who would throw me the keys to the excavator or bull dozer if brush or trees were in the way and I had to be careful not to get carried away.?ÿ
Oh, you guys. ?ÿMy wife tells people I only started dating her because she already had her own tractor. ?ÿIt was an older, blue Ford. ?ÿShe sold it before we got married. ?ÿDarn it.
The Kobota Dealer had a 0% interest loan deal on tractors. Who can pass that deal up? Ten years later the tractor has 98 hours on it. I should sell it, but it's paid for.
Best way to make a small fortune is to start farming with a large fortune.?ÿ
While taking a shot on a quarter corner today looked to the northeast to see 320 acres and over 100 head of 800 lb heifers enjoying the lush grass. ?ÿAll owned by a dentist. ?ÿLooked to the northwest to see a similar sight. ?ÿAll owned by a retired pharmacist.
I'm not sure if it is still the case, but down this way they had a law that the only people that could own pharmacies, were pharmacists, and that created quite a nice little monopoly. I'm sure they didn't, but perhaps to even out the score, they should have had a law that pharmacists couldn't own anything else.
To be fair to dentists though, they must see some some hideous things while tuning the human main manifold, so moonlighting with a farm is ok with me.
That green paint is awfully expensive.
Buy yourself a used Ford tractor. You can pick one up off craigslist for a few thousand. Play with it until you get tired of it, then sell for what you paid for it.?ÿ?ÿ
I heard behind every successful Rancher, is a wife who works in town.?ÿ
While taking a shot on a quarter corner today looked to the northeast to see 320 acres and over 100 head of 800 lb heifers enjoying the lush grass. ?ÿAll owned by a dentist. ?ÿLooked to the northwest to see a similar sight. ?ÿAll owned by a retired pharmacist.
You can see the same thing down here in OK.?ÿ But I'll bet you money your dentist and pharmacist probably have?ÿ some sort of tie to KS...and names you could readily pronounce without a world geography book.
