[AT] Tractors and other stuff...

[Steve W.]

Easley, Greg A. wrote:
> You got that right.  My wife and daughter have been doing the horse
> thing for the past fifteen years or so. I've got plenty of pasture,
> but you still have to feed em in the winter time.  The good-guy
> neighbor rate for making my grass into idiot cubes is up to $4/bale.
> I think I paid $27 for putting up 5x5 net-wrapped round bales last
> year.  Then you get into the older ones needing a bit of grain
> through the winter, and the farrier, and the vet, and the quarterly
> visits to PFI, etc.  On top of that there's the 100x150 arena surface
> to maintain, board fences, barn space, stall maintenance, heated
> drinkers, it just doesn't end.   The Mrs. bought another one last
> weekend and both wife and daughter are looking at more to buy this
> weekend.  I've got give em credit for being good traders though.  So
> far they've managed to buy low and sell better.
> 
> I'm with you - I'll stick to tractors.
> 
> 
> Greg


Sounds like you need a small hay making outfit. Perhaps some 
dis-incentive machines like a sickle bar on a TO-20 for the daughter, 
maybe a crimper and a wheel rake. A TO 35 or similar on a small baler. 
Then you simply say "I'll keep the machinery going, but YOU TWO need to 
operate it"

If they like it you end up saving money AND end up with more tractors!
If they decide it's far to much work and sell the horses, you end up 
with tractors AND more storage room for .... Tractors...
You win either way...

-- 
Steve W.