[AT] Need more tractors

Skip Cleveland OCLEVELAND at cfl.rr.com
Wed Sep 28 15:35:41 PDT 2005


Hey,farmer. Your raving now.

Skip
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From: "Indiana Robinson" <robinson at svs.net>
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Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 5:25 PM
Subject: [AT] Need more tractors


>I am convinced that we need a tractor for each implement.   
> :-)    I was putting the bush-hog on the Super M Farmall (3 
> pt) and to do that I had to take the bale spear off. We are 
> not done with the bale spear and I am not done with the 
> bush-hog yet but I also need to use the 3-point grader box. 
> I have quite a few tractors but not that many with 3 point 
> hitch. One of those is down and will be until this winter 
> when I make some repairs to the PTO Drive. I would like to 
> make a 3 point hitch for both the 1948 John Deere A and the 
> Farmall Super MTA.
> The tractor for each implement doesn't sound too bad but I 
> have a lot of implements.   :-)
> Lets see, I could have:
> The bush-hog on one tractor.
> The grader box on one.
> A manure spreader on one.
> A mid-mount sickle mower stays on the 1946 AC C much of the 
> year.
> Then a plow.
> A disk.
> And so on. I suspect about 40 should do it.  :-)
> 
> For a change I am actually looking forward to winter (and I 
> normally hate winter). This "will" be the year of the shop. 
> I have plenty of firewood available. I have just a little 
> work to have the rest of the ceiling closed in and I have 
> plenty of rolls of polyethylene sheeting to seal drafts and 
> a line of projects a mile long.  :-)
> What I do not have is the every minute responsibility of 
> caring for and dealing with my elderly mother with 
> Alzheimer's. She is still creating more than her share of 
> stress and daily problems but now at least I can work in 
> the shop without constantly being stopped to hear some 
> (usually groundless) compliant, sometimes as often as a 
> couple of dozen times a day.  I had reached the point of 
> being almost completely unable to work there at all for 
> most of the last two years. The administrator of the 
> assisted living center that I placed her in (in July), 
> after her Alzheimer's became so bad that it was placing her 
> in extreme danger, recently told my sister that he had no 
> idea how I had coped with her that long. She was driving 
> him bonkers and he had a full staff and they all get to go 
> home to privacy everyday. I was only 300 feet away 24-7. 
> After we placed her in the center my blood pressure went 
> down 30 points in about 3 weeks.
> I have a little dab of hay to bale. A little dab of corn 
> to combine and a little dab of wheat to plant and look out 
> shop here I come. The shop will be pretty much full time. I 
> am sneaking in there more now.  Of course I still have some 
> odd jobs to do getting houses ready winter but those 
> projects are an hour here and two hours there. Not big time 
> eaters. 
> I always enjoyed my shop a lot in the off seasons and I am 
> looking forward to getting into it regular like a kid 
> waiting for Christmas. Over the last couple of years I 
> almost had to beat myself with a knobby club to force 
> myself to work there. While I knew it was bad at the time I 
> only realize how bad it was as I look back at it.
> I am sure there are others in a similar boat. I would just 
> say don't allow it to drag you down. Do what you have to 
> do. Don't face it alone.
> I only post this in hope I can get someone else to take a 
> deep breath and do what you know must be done. I waited 
> much longer than I should have. For those that are not in 
> that boat (especially you young guys) I have to say don't 
> ever make the mistake of moving real close to your parents, 
> not even for a couple of million dollars. A half-mile may 
> be OK but still really too close. I only hope I can keep 
> from placing a load like that on  my children.
> I have a whole bunch of wagons and trailers. I wonder if I 
> should have a separate tractor for each of those.   ;-)   
> Then there is the buzz saw and...
> 
> 
> 
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> Central Indiana USA
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