Tractor addiction - wife abandonment - Guilt

[Willman]

Yes, tractor addiction is legal, but it dont stop there!
Its the new implement fixes that'll get ya.
The smell of new paint on cold steel, oh my.
Trying to get that new piece of equipment in the barn before the wife comes home.
Drooling over the rotary cutter brochures.
Scrounging for money for the next new attachment.
Then you'll need a bigger barn, need more land....
its a visious cycle!

[frank_f15]

u most certainly need help. MORE SEAT TIME IS THE PRFECT ANS. WHAT YOU DO IS WORK ON THE TRACTOR TILL YOU ARE TIRED OF IT! come to think of it that did not work for me [img]/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

[JoeinTX]

I'm afraid Willman is right.....

"Yes, tractor addiction is legal, but it dont stop there!
Its the new implement fixes that'll get ya.
The smell of new paint on cold steel, oh my.
Trying to get that new piece of equipment in the barn before the wife comes home.
Drooling over the rotary cutter brochures.
Scrounging for money for the next new attachment.
Then you'll need a bigger barn, need more land....
its a visious cycle!.."

The tractor is simply the "gateway".....the implements are the real addiction.

Just one more tool to make us money or save us time. Just one more peripheral item, like a hydraulic cylinder or a coupling, to make things run a little smoother. Just one more paying job and it'll be all better...yes, yes, yes.

Before you know it, you're fibbing to the family about where you've been and what you've done with your money. You're calling in sick to work and making excuses to stay home. You're time away is pure agony and it's all you think about, yet your time alone is pure joy.

Yes, you are now a member of the "victim society" in this country and deservedly so. You were ignorant of the addictive nature of this blatantly legal product we know as tractors. You were hoodwinking by sharp tongued capitalists into squandering your hard-earned money on such trappings....."easy financing, nothing down, low interest"...yeah, we've all heard the pitch.

Yes sir, you need to contact your local ACLU, the nearest branch office of the American Worker's Party, the Sierra Club, N.O.W., and the Kennedy family in order to establish your victimhood and begin the awareness campaign reaching out to all of those like you who are afflicted (but just don't know it) with "tractorholism."

I feel your pain, brother.....

[ronjhall]

<font color="blue"> They tricked me tonight and told me supper was ready. </font>
This statement makes it sound like the wife has called in for help. You need help! Along with putting hours on the tractor. Spend more time on <font color="red"> TBN </font> for all the advice you need to continue the battle for more tractor seat time. [img]/forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

[RedRocker]

Hello, my name is Mike and I'm a Tractorholic. "Hi Mike"
It all started with 16 acers and a chain saw, then came the borrowed 4 wheeler, bought it, pole saw, weed eater, then the big leap to a CK30!! Well, that wasn't enough, had to have a box blade too. It was only two short months before I spent every last dime on a rotary cutter. Now my trailer is too small, no more money and I'm getting strange looks from the wife. I see where this is going and it's not gonna be pretty. [img]/forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img] But is sure is fun. [img]/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

[Nasty135]

I feel the guilt, I was also minding my own business, reading the classified add and there it was a, posthole digger for sale by a local grape farmer, It was calling too me! 12" auger and a 24" auger all for $200 bucks , I was outta control ,phone in hand before I knew it I was driving home when" I came to" in a "cold sweat" OH GREAT NOT AGAIN... somebody please HELP........... [img]/forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img]

[edski]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Hi, I'm Rodney and I'm a tractorholic. )</font>
Hi, Rodney.

90% of my income (and time) is spent on tractors, implements, and fuel.
The other 10% is squandered. [img]/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

Beware of the dinner's ready trick, or your wife's evil seductions!
They're setting you up for an intervention.

Get yourself a 2nd tractor, and keep it stashed out of sight. Doesn't even need to be the same color, tractors all look the same to "them."
Park one tractor in plain view, make your excuses for absence, then sneak in some more seat time with your ready reserve.
We're here for ya.

[chucko]

"Rodney and I'm a tractorholic"

you do understand comeing here and asking for help is like a drunk going to a bar in place of his AA meeting, right?

[hobbyfarm]

Rodney,
Are you hearing voices in your head? Are they telling you do things that seem illegal, immoral, or fattening with your tractor? [img]/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

[hobbyfarm]

Hmmm,
Tractor addiction, I don't think that's covered by the insurance. ( we need to talk to our representatives).

Is it the consensus that addiction is the term and not a cult?

Those of us on the outside-looking-in (read - no tractor yet) it sort of looks like a cult.

I didn't think of the cult aspect until
edski's statement </font><font color="blue" class="small">( Get yourself a 2nd tractor, and keep it stashed out of sight. Doesn't even need to be the same color, tractors all look the same to "them." )</font>

The "them" makes me think of that as a cult. Hopefully someday we'll all be inducted into the cult and then find as addicting as ever!