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</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Are these things that useful? )</font>
Yes, Steve, in many cases they are, although I'm sure that many are sold just as recreational vehicles. My brother bought one, more for recreation than anything, but it also proved to be an invaluable tool around both his place and mine. We moved many yards of dirt considerable distances with me loading it with my little Kubotas and him running fast to where we wanted the dirt and dumping it on the fly. We used it to drag trees for firewood, brush to be burned, but also used it as a fishing wagon to get back into the woods to creeks where no pickup truck could have gone. He added the hard top (canopy) to his and it made a great rolling scaffold for installing and cleaning rain gutters, as well as for installing a big patio cover at my place, and for pruning trees.
I had a very conservative, older rancher neighbor who would never buy a new tractor, pickup, or car, but after I took him in the Mule one day to get through the woods, through ravines, and over brush piles to do fence repairs, he promptly went and bought a new one himself. He could load tools, including his portable generator, into it to go anywhere on the place to do maintenance and repair jobs, loaded his 12 volt spray rig in it to spray insecticides and herbicides, used it to round up and/or herd cattle, etc. Even used it one day to pull the hay rake when the old tractor he was using broke down. Even in areas that the pickup would go, it was so much handier and quicker to get in and out of that it was a great ranch tool.
My brother also sponsored his own annual golf tournament. I played in it one year, but a couple of years, I used the Mule at the golf tournament to run around the course as the photographer, making pictures of the tournament for him. And of course, I had the back end full of ice chests with plenty of beer and soda pop for the players, and especially for myself. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
Yes, Steve, in many cases they are, although I'm sure that many are sold just as recreational vehicles. My brother bought one, more for recreation than anything, but it also proved to be an invaluable tool around both his place and mine. We moved many yards of dirt considerable distances with me loading it with my little Kubotas and him running fast to where we wanted the dirt and dumping it on the fly. We used it to drag trees for firewood, brush to be burned, but also used it as a fishing wagon to get back into the woods to creeks where no pickup truck could have gone. He added the hard top (canopy) to his and it made a great rolling scaffold for installing and cleaning rain gutters, as well as for installing a big patio cover at my place, and for pruning trees.
I had a very conservative, older rancher neighbor who would never buy a new tractor, pickup, or car, but after I took him in the Mule one day to get through the woods, through ravines, and over brush piles to do fence repairs, he promptly went and bought a new one himself. He could load tools, including his portable generator, into it to go anywhere on the place to do maintenance and repair jobs, loaded his 12 volt spray rig in it to spray insecticides and herbicides, used it to round up and/or herd cattle, etc. Even used it one day to pull the hay rake when the old tractor he was using broke down. Even in areas that the pickup would go, it was so much handier and quicker to get in and out of that it was a great ranch tool.
My brother also sponsored his own annual golf tournament. I played in it one year, but a couple of years, I used the Mule at the golf tournament to run around the course as the photographer, making pictures of the tournament for him. And of course, I had the back end full of ice chests with plenty of beer and soda pop for the players, and especially for myself. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
