04-18-2022, 02:58 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-18-2022, 02:59 PM by FlyingClayDisk.)
Congrats! And, welcome to Colorado!
It won't be long before you're wanting more gear, it's an endless cycle! It all starts somewhere. For us it was our first tractor, then a bigger tractor, then a skid loader, then a bigger skid loader and then a couple trucks and an even bigger tractor. Then the barn to house all the equipment, and a designated area to drop all of the attachments, then fuel storage, and hydraulic oil and the list goes on.
Pretty soon you'll have subscriptions to magazines like Tractor House and publications like The Fence Post.
You'll say "Oh no, no we'll fine with just this one thing!", but come spring one year you'll see!
I'll never forget the spring of 2010, Memorial Day weekend. It rained for about a solid day and on Sunday we were doing something and we got my buddy's truck stuck. Then got his skid loader stuck trying to get it out. Then we pulled out the big guns, and I took our big tractor out thinking we'd have everything un-stuck in a jiffy. Ten minutes later I had the big tractor buried above the axles in mud and hopelessly stuck. Then got our skid loader stuck. After that we got two more tractors stuck (and another truck, just trying to get to where everything else was stuck). It took us four days of digging in mud (Colorado mud, which is no fun at all), (3) heavy duty wreckers, and (3) winch trucks, along with countless hours on the wrong end of a shovel in the blazing sun and bugs to get everything out. I never thought I'd ever see such a colossal mess!
By the time we got the 1st piece of equipment un-stuck we had an audience from all around. People were cheering as we drove the first tractor out, and one by one we got each piece of equipment extricated. The last piece out was our big tractor, as it was stuck the worst. As we drove it down the country road afterwards people were out on their balconies and decks cheering as we drove by.
Took weeks on the power washers to get everything cleaned up properly. That is one holiday weekend I won't soon forget. I swore..."Never Again!".
...time for a bigger tractor! ?
It won't be long before you're wanting more gear, it's an endless cycle! It all starts somewhere. For us it was our first tractor, then a bigger tractor, then a skid loader, then a bigger skid loader and then a couple trucks and an even bigger tractor. Then the barn to house all the equipment, and a designated area to drop all of the attachments, then fuel storage, and hydraulic oil and the list goes on.
Pretty soon you'll have subscriptions to magazines like Tractor House and publications like The Fence Post.
You'll say "Oh no, no we'll fine with just this one thing!", but come spring one year you'll see!
I'll never forget the spring of 2010, Memorial Day weekend. It rained for about a solid day and on Sunday we were doing something and we got my buddy's truck stuck. Then got his skid loader stuck trying to get it out. Then we pulled out the big guns, and I took our big tractor out thinking we'd have everything un-stuck in a jiffy. Ten minutes later I had the big tractor buried above the axles in mud and hopelessly stuck. Then got our skid loader stuck. After that we got two more tractors stuck (and another truck, just trying to get to where everything else was stuck). It took us four days of digging in mud (Colorado mud, which is no fun at all), (3) heavy duty wreckers, and (3) winch trucks, along with countless hours on the wrong end of a shovel in the blazing sun and bugs to get everything out. I never thought I'd ever see such a colossal mess!
By the time we got the 1st piece of equipment un-stuck we had an audience from all around. People were cheering as we drove the first tractor out, and one by one we got each piece of equipment extricated. The last piece out was our big tractor, as it was stuck the worst. As we drove it down the country road afterwards people were out on their balconies and decks cheering as we drove by.
Took weeks on the power washers to get everything cleaned up properly. That is one holiday weekend I won't soon forget. I swore..."Never Again!".
...time for a bigger tractor! ?