Greetings, tractor owners and mowers of fields. I thought it might be fun to resurrect this little beauty I created several years ago for another forum. Life may be full of changes – both good and bad – but it’s kind of nice to realize that our forums are pretty much the same old loveable places they have always been.
How many TractorByNet members does it take to mow a field?
1 to hitch up the field mower (bush hog, brush hog, rotary mower, etc.) and post photos of it being installed.
14 to share similar experiences of installing field mowers and how theirs were installed differently.
7 to caution about the dangers of installing field mowers.
1 to demand the thread be moved to another forum.
11 to defend posting about field mowers – under any name or euphemism commonly used by those who commonly used names or euphemisms for field mowers. All of us who have fields need mowers; therefore, posts about mowers are relevant anywhere except in the Pictures of Farm Women thread --unless, of course, the women are posing in, on or around field mowers.
36 to debate which method of hitching field mowers is superior, where to buy the best mowers, what to call them, etc.
8 to respond in anger that field mower suppliers have been rotten to them, so they should be flamed, and now’s just as good a time as any.
4 to caution against being unkind to suppliers, because they’re people too.
5 suppliers to answer with long descriptions of why it wasn’t their fault.
1 forum host to plead for an end to the negativity.
7 to post messages of agreement, most with additional shots at suppliers or those complaining about suppliers.
9 to add URL's where one can see examples of different mower applications.
4 to post that the URL's were posted incorrectly.
1 to post the corrected URL's.
7 to point out spelling and/or grammatical errors in posts about field mowers.
5 to flame the spell checkers.
3 to correct spelling and/or grammar in the flamer posts.
6 to argue over whether it's "spellcheck" or "spell check," then another …
6 to condemn those 6 as stupid.
5 industry professionals to inform the group about everything to date that was stated or pictured incorrectly.
15 guys to argue that they’ve always done it their way and nothing has fallen off yet -- well maybe once in a high-speed turn -- but that doesn’t really count because of the extra stresses in a fast corner.
13 to link all field mower posts, quoting them in their entirety (including all headers and signatures), and adding: "Me to."
5 to post to the group that they will no longer post because they cannot handle the controversy.
4 to post: "Didn't we go through this already a short time ago?"
13 to post: "Do a Google search on field mowers before posting questions about them."
1 forum lurker to respond to the original post 6 years from now and start it all over again.
