Building a Hobby Farm- from woods to eggs

[tony123]

scgargoyle, I don't think the pipe is a driveshaft pipe. It seems to be pretty stout.

easygo, great idea with the paint. I don't intend to make it pretty, so may as well let them have some fun with it.

I should have better described my uses for the trailer. It will never have reason to be pulled faster than about 30mph on back roads. It won't ever see an interstate, and would be rare that I was on a 45mph road. The only load that would ever approach a ton might be crush and run and that will only happen once every 4-5 years. And, as suggested, easy enough to break into a few trips. The quarry is about 3 miles from the house on a small country road.

Hope that better illustrates my intent for it. In fact, it will have infrequent duty at all. After this initial construction it may only be pulled out of the weeds once a year for hayrides.

[easygo]

Tony,
Hayrides are fun. You must have a trailer for that reason alone. Here is the very simple setup I had this fall. You can see my ugly duckling trailer too. I borrowed the hay from a horse farm down the road. My friend's 2 year old didn't want to get off the trailer when we were done.

[tony123]

easygo....you can't join the "ugly" club with that thing! Way too pretty. Looks like everyones enjoying it. The photos are making me miss the green of summer.

If my $40 only buys a hayride trailer it was worth it. Heck, I've been places that charge $3 a head for a hayride. Taking the family on one of those is half the price of this trailer alone. hahaha

toro, yes I do need to get lights. A friend recommended the magnetic kind so that I could easily remove them when being used as a farm cart. About $20 at HF. The law though is that you don't need them if you can still see the truck tailights. Either way, 20 bucks is worth the peace of mind.

We got snow last night! It happens on average about two light snowfalls a year around here. This one was about 3". Beautiful. I'll get a photo or two posted later.

[tony123]

Here's a few shots of the snow today. The tractor is usually in the garage, but Momma wanted her car in there for the snow.



And this one is from our back porch.

[3RRL]

Geez Tony,
Now your place is a Winter Wonderland. Great photos!

[Tororider]

Tony, looks real purty. I have one question though, where are your wifes priorities? I mean the tractor or the car, I think the more useful piece of equipment should be protected, hehe.

[Nasty135]

Hi Tony, I was checking out the weather yesterday on the internet and called my Buddy in SC who lives real close to our property in Abbeville and told him to go out and see how much snow was outside... He was like "Guawwwwlly" he had been inside for awhile yesterday and he was surprised too see some of Al Gore's Global warming in action

I'm pretty sure my wife would have been outta luck trying to get me to move my tractor outside (they don't call me Nasty135 for nothing )

Anyhow we are chopping at the bit (a little) to come down there and get started with a hobby farm of our own, So I'm reading this thread with interest....

Oh, One of the things my boys had a question about was "How much snow are we gonna get in SC and I had to tell them not much if any... "But Dad we gotta have some fun in the snow"... Well maybe will will after all, now & then...

[tony123]

As useful as our tracor is, the car is what gets us back and forth to work, which pays for the tractor.....so.... And she's so good to me that I can't argue much.

Originally Posted by Tororider

Tony, looks real purty. I have one question though, where are your wifes priorities? I mean the tractor or the car, I think the more useful piece of equipment should be protected, hehe.

[tony123]

Nasty, show them the photos. We get it on average about 3 times a year here on the north side of Greenville. Down where you are may only average about once every few years. Now, if you make the drive up just into NC, they average 6-8 snows a year maybe? I forget, did you say how old your boys were?

Oh, figured out through internet research that my fancy trailer is off of a '59 Ford. Nearly 50 years old and still being used!

[tony123]

Here's a basic question: Now that I have this trailer, I can go to a local tree company and pick up free wood chips. I was considering using them on the entrance road to the farm and covering the pad of the eventual barn.

How does this work out? will it help keep the mud down? or will it just make a mud a woodchip gumbo?