I married a man with no problem investing time into something that may not have value or use to another person. When we moved out to the country from the city just over a year ago, we were strolling through our very own woods and found some old tractor parts and then an old farm tru...
I have now single handedly skidded a huge cedar tree out of the woods. Well, technically Alan cut it down, and Gene wrapped the line around it, but I’m the one that drove the tractor *and* pulled the string that made the winch reel it in. Ergo – legit logger. I’ve skidded out...
When January came, Old Red didn’t want to go back under the shelter. Nephew Monk had to bring his big tractor and drag her out of the yard. Other folks seem to like old red trucks too: friends got together and had Old Red sit for a portrait. I love it. I have old red truck ...
Building the tractor is straightforward. The conduit that we buy comes with one end belled to fit over another piece, we cut the bell off. In our area Menards has the best price on PVC and fittings. The sticks of PVC are 10′ long. The main frame is made of 2″ PVC. The width i...
For that I don’t have to advertise. I have perfectly lovely friends willing to pronounce my junk as utterly beneath them for free. Got to go. Nonetheless, having pushed, pulled, and dragged the non-functioning tractor to various points of our property over the past two years, we knew th...
Returning to the farm (or the garage) we can go further! Do I really need that tractor? What would I do without it? In your suburban yard, do you really need that riding lawn mower AND that treadmill? What if you sold both and got a push mower? Just sayin’. ...
Guest post by Larry F. Brown, PhD We visited a wind farm in southern Utah recently. I've always been curious about the costs, profitability, and physical size of these things as well as the footprint and environmental impact. I had 3 meetings with the ma
While drilling post holes for the fence around our garden, I put the tractor’s auger right through the main power lines to the house. It also coincided with one of the coldest days of that winter. The house is all solar, and if the power goes out we have a 48 volt battery back ...
t have to travel so far when we come back later to pick them up. We could stack the bales right off of the baler but that makes me sneeze…lots of dust. Instead, we pulled two wagons behind the tractor. I alternated putting the bales on each wagon and the boy and the wife stacked...
though it wasn’t on my list of chores for Sunday. I was focused on cutting firewood and cleaning up around the farm. We are also plugging away at removing fences that have been stomped into the soil. Not easy work. So dad rode the tractor all day to plant 9 acres of pasture while...