Mornin' Ted,
Guess I need to change my profile. I didn't mean to imply that I maintained a road, ie, grading etc. Our suvdivision is "out in the country" with big, wide, and steep ditches, but the road is paved. They don't often curb and gutter down here, cuz it would cost alot and our taxes would be much higher. /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif Also, every now and then we get a frog choker and it would take a ditch to handle it. All I do is mow the shoulder and ditch with a little Cub Cadet 2145, 42" deck. Gets pretty exciting at times. I will have to fill in with some dirt when I get more grass growing in the ditch. Dang moles and armadillos!
I really don't even have to mow the shoulder since the county big green tractors, 3 or 4 in tandem, come thru the hood several times a year, but they are quite rough. They will skip the areas maintained by the homeowner.
Well, I'm ramblin' and you probably already know more than you want to 'bout this area....
but I feel the need to ramble some more...
Didn't mean to let on that I was tractor knowledgeable. I'm a newbie too. We left the farm when I was 13. Dad wouldn't let me drive the big green tractor, only the little grey and red one. I would do things like pull the little single axle trailer down to one of the wheat fields and pick up rocks, or pull the hay wagon from the field to the barn. Forgotten alot since then.
No mishaps 'cept the time I ran over my Dad's foot. He said pull forward a little and I did. Problem was he didn't define a little. He hollered at me for just a little while. And there was the lesson I learned 'bout left/right brake turning pulling the harrow. Bent that front bar on the harrow all up! Couple more turns and it would have looked like a pretzel. Dad hollered at me a little longer that time. Hurt my feelin's. I mean, how's a young fella spose to know these things unless explained. 'Course I wasn't coordinated enough to turn and brake at the same time anyway. And then there was the time I...
Years later, when my Mom was tryin' real hard to teach me how to drive an automobile, she said I drove it like a tractor. Didn't know what she meant by that. Didn't ask. Back then you didn't ask your folks to many questions. I don't know whether or not I out grew that, driving it like it was a tractor, that is.
Man, you sure are a long ways off or maybe it's me that's a long ways off. Looked you up on the atlas. Never been there, just southern Nevada, Vegas etc, but my best bud in the GREEN MACHINE was from Sparks.
Don't now what the freight would be from here to there, but there's more than 1 way to skin a cat (whoops, there I go again!). Those fellas over at oldwwmachines.com talk about shipping some big ol' iron cross country and have mentioned getting freight quotes via Al Gore's net. Don't remember the url's, tho.
We even have an airport here, tho not an international one, where they land those big ones a few times a day. You could load that thang up in a Uhaul or even a Ryder. Or the salesman, Buster is his name, will sell you a 16', tandem axle equipment trailer for a hair over a thousand.
Y'all have a great day.
