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Could you have your Wife talk to my Wife?
Gotta love that Gal of yours. I'd be all for going bigger on the tractor but have you considered just upgrading to little larger on your lift cylinders? Don't know what you currently have but going from a 1.75 to 2" cylinder is a 1472# ( @2000psi) push increase per cylinder ( 1.5" to 1.75" @2000psi is 1271# increased push per cylinder). Just have to be sure the loader could handle the increased lifting ability. Here is a thread where Mars1952 upgraded his small Deere FEL. He also has a Youtube Video on the project. http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/build-yourself/186398-upgrading-john-deere-loader-cylinders.html
Same here, I was sweating my tail off on my old Yanmar and the wife tells me "Why don't you buy a tractor with a cab and AC so you don't sweat so much" Well it didn't take me long to go looking for one. A year or so after getting my LS, I sold that old Yanmar to my sister for a low price after I bought my B26 TLB. 2 tractors are useful, but 3 was pushing it a bit.geesh..that wife's a keeper. My wife was the one that told me to get the cab tractor.