GentleMFer
New member
Hi everyone,
Crossing my fingers that the sale of my current place in the city doesn't collapse at the deadline tomorrow (like the previous offer) and I'm not carrying 2 places at the end of the month when we move in.
We got a great R2000 place on 80 acres that is about 1/3 treed. It is newly fenced and cross-fenced, set up for horses with a crappy horse stall and obviously lots of pasture. There is a large shed (when can I call it a quonset - is that a Canadian thing?) but there is no barn. On the downside we are getting all the water treatment redone, at 30-ish years the well may be near the end of its life (sand has moved in 14ft of 50 so I'm wondering if the steel casing has coroded), the driveway is so long (all I see is potential snow to move), there's a fairly large hatchery across the road (could catch a whiff a few times), and I've got to get used to 3 or 4 km of gravel road to get to the highway.
We're moving in -- now what? I'm a city boy with about a 1-year stint on an acreage when I was in grade 2.
I'm thinking tractor -- this is fun researching -- I'm just trying to swallow how much tractor I need and how much it's going to touch that 50-ish acres? I'm having a tough time thinking through how much pasture management would be required for a couple of horses with this much land. What do you do with 80 acres? We're only 12km from the city so that's a big plus. A horse will be moving in with us and possibly more and I'd like to be pushing a snowblower. Maybe a high HP 2nd-tier brand (no offence to anybody) tractor with a mid-PTO so I can attach a front-mount blower? I have to check out the local dealers but we do have anything from the majors through Mahindra, Kioti, LS, etc. I can steal cash coming from the sale of my place and just absorb it through the mortgage. Just getting used to paying more for a tractor than our 2 vehicles combined. I like to figure things out but I've never really touched mechanical stuff so I'm not really sure about the used market.
Any other things to think of? I spotted a coyote when we looked at the place -- a nice reminder to pick up a gun license. Thanks for the help and ideas everyone. I should be probably posting in the tractor section -- I think that's my next move. Maybe I should talk to the neighbors before I make a big purchase. I'm really excited -- I think my agrarian DNA and roots are starting to bust out.
Here's the new place:
Crossing my fingers that the sale of my current place in the city doesn't collapse at the deadline tomorrow (like the previous offer) and I'm not carrying 2 places at the end of the month when we move in.
We got a great R2000 place on 80 acres that is about 1/3 treed. It is newly fenced and cross-fenced, set up for horses with a crappy horse stall and obviously lots of pasture. There is a large shed (when can I call it a quonset - is that a Canadian thing?) but there is no barn. On the downside we are getting all the water treatment redone, at 30-ish years the well may be near the end of its life (sand has moved in 14ft of 50 so I'm wondering if the steel casing has coroded), the driveway is so long (all I see is potential snow to move), there's a fairly large hatchery across the road (could catch a whiff a few times), and I've got to get used to 3 or 4 km of gravel road to get to the highway.
We're moving in -- now what? I'm a city boy with about a 1-year stint on an acreage when I was in grade 2.
I'm thinking tractor -- this is fun researching -- I'm just trying to swallow how much tractor I need and how much it's going to touch that 50-ish acres? I'm having a tough time thinking through how much pasture management would be required for a couple of horses with this much land. What do you do with 80 acres? We're only 12km from the city so that's a big plus. A horse will be moving in with us and possibly more and I'd like to be pushing a snowblower. Maybe a high HP 2nd-tier brand (no offence to anybody) tractor with a mid-PTO so I can attach a front-mount blower? I have to check out the local dealers but we do have anything from the majors through Mahindra, Kioti, LS, etc. I can steal cash coming from the sale of my place and just absorb it through the mortgage. Just getting used to paying more for a tractor than our 2 vehicles combined. I like to figure things out but I've never really touched mechanical stuff so I'm not really sure about the used market.
Any other things to think of? I spotted a coyote when we looked at the place -- a nice reminder to pick up a gun license. Thanks for the help and ideas everyone. I should be probably posting in the tractor section -- I think that's my next move. Maybe I should talk to the neighbors before I make a big purchase. I'm really excited -- I think my agrarian DNA and roots are starting to bust out.
Here's the new place: