Backhoe Another reason for a backhoe

Boondox · Nov 28, 2001

The Wife came back from walking the dogs to inform me there was a dead coyote at the top of our hill. She wanted me to bury it. I thought for a moment and told her I'd bury it with my new backhoe. She thought for a moment and told me she guessed it would just have to rot.

I was briefly hopeful. /w3tcompact/icons/crazy.gif

Pete

www.GatewayToVermont.com

Anonymous Poster · Nov 28, 2001

I'd wait about a week, and tell her... "Honey, Babe, Sugar... that coyote is still laying there, rotten, smelling up a storm...

Would be nice about now to have that backhoe and get rid of it...Babydoll..." /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

MikePA · Nov 28, 2001

Thanks for the laugh /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif. I've tried a similar logic on my wife with the same results. Kinda like trying to catch that wise old fish (not that your wife is a fish /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif, or old /w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif). You can see 'em swimming up to the bait, they circle for a minute, then swim off. /w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif

Anonymous Poster · Nov 28, 2001

Peter,

I forgot to mention, you have to be subtle and not too obvious... don't want her to catch on or anything... /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

butzkeg · Nov 28, 2001

...and won't a dead coyote just attract more?

cedarranch · Nov 28, 2001

Do you guys really have that much trouble with the wife? I see phrases like can't convinced the wife, trying to talk her into it, etc. all over this board. Am I the only one here that does not have this problem. Now that I think about it, my wife is the one trying to convince me. /w3tcompact/icons/blush.gif She has been bugging me all week to get a 10hp chipper shredder on sale at home depot for $597 so we don't have to drag off the limbs.

Jag · Nov 28, 2001

CR, some of us are just very lucky..... I have heard "Will you go buy that bulldozer and get me a place cleaned off so we can put up that barn."

But on the other side no one wants their spouse to spend $10-20k in one quick shot with out at least talking it over and getting some kind of agreement on it. Would you like to come home an find a new pink Cady, or two walls missing form your living room. "I thought we would just add a new den and get all new carpet."

AndyR · Nov 28, 2001

In marketing there is an emphasis on keeping your "product" on the customer's mind. I had good luck on getting my bandsaw by grinning and commenting "gee, the ___ would get done faster if I had a bandsaw." Course I never limited myself to anything that actually would need a bandsaw/w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

Gotta watch those pauses though - try just responding as if you have the 'hoe... Good Luck!

Andy in NH

webbmeister · Nov 28, 2001

My sweetie would just smile, take me by the hand out to the shed, hand me the pick axe and a shovel and point. At that point, I'd know two things: 1. No backhoe. 2. The coyote was gonna get buried, by me, right away.

I do love her a lot, though (my sweetie, not the coyote.)

Boondox · Nov 28, 2001

John -- You forget that where we live what's not eaten in a week will be frozen solid!

Pete

www.GatewayToVermont.com

PaulinSD · Nov 28, 2001

While my wife and I are penurious, but we have an agreement either can spend $1000 withour asking/confering with the other. I do have a plus here though. We mainly use both our tractors for business, so I can usually justify it, as long as I can pay it off in 2 years. So far, I've been able to write off all my toys.

Paul

Boondox · Nov 28, 2001

It's not that I normally have that much trouble with her. It's just that less than a year ago she dished out $20k cash for Clementine and all sorts of implements...then this year gave me my Christmas present (logging winch) early. So complaining at this point would be construed as bad form. /w3tcompact/icons/blush.gif Oh how I loved making that last student loan payment!!!

Pete

www.GatewayToVermont.com

Boondox · Nov 28, 2001

LOL! I've been as subtle as a jackhammer so far! /w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif

Pete

www.GatewayToVermont.com

Harv · Nov 28, 2001

pe•nu•ri•ous (pú-nÜry-ús, -nyÜr2-) adj. 1. Ungenerously or pettily unwilling to spend money.

I thought I was reasonably well educated when I joined this forum, but my vocabulary gets challenged (and hopefully expanded) almost daily here. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

Just goes to show you -- tractor folks are a breed apart. /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

cedarranch · Nov 28, 2001

Harv, I was gonna look it up too, guess ya beat me to it!
Atleast I was not the only vocabulary challenged tractor nut! /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif/w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

hayden · Nov 28, 2001

Around here's we're called cheap yankees

hayden · Nov 28, 2001

Remind her in the spring when it thaws out and the stink comes back. You'll probably have a culvert ot two to sing that time of year too.

TWINKLE_TOES · Nov 28, 2001

Harv,

At least your honest (and abitious). Iwas content to just wonder/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif
My vocabulary has increased from 300 words to 311 since I joined TBN.
Al

EddieW · Nov 28, 2001

My wife bought a house thru the sheriff's sale that needed a bunch of fixing. I told her I wasn't going to participate but she got it and when you get the money tied up you have to do something. All the way thru the project I got every dirty job that came along and I started teasing her about giving me all the sh*# work. The sewer line was working but not right so I tried to root it out. It didn't work so I called a plumber to come look at it. He wanted $1500 to replace it. It was a new PVC line so I didn't think it could be too bad so I decided to dig down where the blockage was. After digging a 15' by 2' trench 6 feet deep with a shovel i was able to break into the pipe and get the rotorooter to clean it out. My wife walked up while I was elbow deep in sewage wanting to know how it was going and when I finished explaining how easy it would have been with a backhoe she suggested I go get a backhoe for my tractor to make it easier. I guess the timing just has to be right (and you have to be really passionate). /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif