How many tractors in your neighborhood?

[lman]

The ground is a little harder this time of year. Manual digging might have to wait.

 

[Jstpssng]

The ground is a little harder this time of year. Manual digging might have to wait.

I buried mine in February 2011. We don't get frost in the ground the way that we used to, except in areas where the snow is kept cleared. I knew that it was going to happen that winter and planned to put some foam board down; but it started snowing before the ground froze so I didn't need to.

 

[GeneV]

Over here on our road, there are 20 houses sitting on anywhere from 2.5 to 10 acre lots. Aside from garden tractors, as far as I know there's only 4 of us with scuts or cuts and nobody with anything bigger than that.

 

[Oaktree]

Not really farm country here, and hasn't been in 50+ years, but on my road alone I'd say better than 1/3 of us have at least one, mostly in the 25-50 hp range. I'm not counting lawn tractors either. Lot sizes range from 5 acres or so up to a couple hundred.
Pretty rural though, and a tractor is mighty handy to have.

 

[woody]

Ouch, that sucks. When I buried my dog I wouldn't use my BH even though there were two feet of snow on the ground. After 14 years I felt I wanted to do it by hand.

Crazy as it sounds, while I was digging I was sure that I could hear her barking off in the distance. It must have been the wind.

I understand and my father-in-law dug his dogs grave by hand even after I volunteered. But this wasn't our dog it was our neighbors, but another neighbor and myself done the burial. I don't think the dog owner could participate they may have went out there after we left.

 

[John_Mc]

8 in my immediate area but 3 of those are in my yard and mine are the only backhoes, so I get to be the grave digger I buried my neighbor's dog yesterday, the dog got into it with a truck and the truck won.

When we had to put our Akita/German Shepherd mix down I dug the grave ahead of time with my backhoe so it would be ready. It did feel weird digging a grave for an animal that was still alive. I wanted to at least put her in by hand, but had injured my back. She was a big girl: 150# was more than I could handle at the time, so had to use the bucket of my tractor to transport and put her in. I was keeping things together until my hand moved to the lever to dump the bucket and I fell apart. I had to stop and go around to say goodby again, and even after that I had a hard time of it.

 

[MoKelly]

When we had to put our Akita/German Shepherd mix down I dug the grave ahead of time with my backhoe so it would be ready. It did feel weird digging a grave for an animal that was still alive. I wanted to at least put her in by hand, but had injured my back. She was a big girl: 150# was more than I could handle at the time, so had to use the bucket of my tractor to transport and put her in. I was keeping things together until my hand moved to the lever to dump the bucket and I fell apart. I had to stop and go around to say goodby again, and even after that I had a hard time of it.

Fully understand. It is very difficult to lose your dog. Very.

MoKelly

 

[John_Mc]

Eight houses toward our dead end of a one mile, rural dirt road. Parcel sizes ranging from 20 to 144 acres. Six of the eight have tractors ranging from 30 HP compact up to 50-60 HP farm utility tractors (a couple of the owners are from nearby farm families and also have ready access to the larger farm tractors for big projects). Two of these homes have more than one tractor. Two also have mini excavators. The owners of the two houses without tractors just moved in recently. One about a month ago, the other two days ago. Both of those homes had tractors under their previous owners. Both of the new owners have plans to get compact tractors, so we'll be back up to 100% on this end before too long. The other end of the dirt road is owned by area farmers. Anything that is not a rental property is farm family property with access to multiple tractors.

 

[Wagtail]

When we had to put our Akita/German Shepherd mix down I dug the grave ahead of time with my backhoe so it would be ready. It did feel weird digging a grave for an animal that was still alive. I wanted to at least put her in by hand, but had injured my back. She was a big girl: 150# was more than I could handle at the time, so had to use the bucket of my tractor to transport and put her in. I was keeping things together until my hand moved to the lever to dump the bucket and I fell apart. I had to stop and go around to say goodby again, and even after that I had a hard time of it.

Not to 'black cat' you; I had to have one of my horses put down (Vet said kidney failure = they deteriorate quickly). Fortunately my other neighbour had borrowed his work's excavator to do some work around his property and he agreed to come over and dig the grave/fill it in. (a 'slab' of his favourite libation as payment)

After the Vet put 'Jack' down (I held his headstall during the injection) and my neighbour was digging the grave, I swapped my FEL bale spikes for the fork-lift tines. I was able to pick 'jack' up a slip him into the grave... he came to rest looking as if he was naturally curled down for a nap. It couldn't have worked out better.

You help out a neighbour as needs be.

 

[fried1765]

My friends simply think I am nuts, with 3 tractors.
Nobody around here has anything bigger than a small lawn tractor.
When they learn that I have a 48HP Kubota TLB, they usually ask...why?
My response is: I like tractors!