Glenn, you're too right about that. I'm a complete addict. Where's tractor's annonomous?
But at the same time, I do actually use the stuff, and my tractoring circumstances have shifted quite a bit in the past 2 years. I've shifted from the tractor living and being used at my 2 acre home with one or two trips a year to my place in VT, to living at the place in VT with one or two trips a year back home for occational work. The place in VT requires that I maintain the full road going to it, even where it's not on my property, plus there are years of work to do in clearing old field, rebuilding walls and foundations, etc. etc. There are fields to reclaim and then cut, outbuildings to construct, hydro systems to install, etc. It's great fun and tractorman's heaven. We are also trying to acquire a bunch of neighboring land in conjunction with a conservation organization and I'd end up owning/managing that land too.
My 4 foot field mower, 800 lb loader, 4 1/2 foot snow blower, and 7 foot BH are starting to look small. They were HUGE when I got them. Truely the biggest and baddest, but my world grew around them. As more of our lives shift from 2 acres to what might become more like 500, I have great justifications fro even bigger and badder.
How's that for a rationalization.