JohnENC
New member
Howdies,
I'm a city boy by raising, but inherited a small farm when my Mom passed a few years ago...she grew up out here, it was "Grandma's house" when I was younger. Have been living in the country for almost 3 years now (and loving it), and finally broke down and got a tractor, a Deere 3032E, 31-point-something HP. All I need. Has a front end loader and a bush hog on back; looking to get some pallet forks soon. Then who knows. I'm not a farmer; we had a guy working the land for several decades, but the wife & I decided we wanted to get away from chemical sprays, GMOs, all that stuff. He's pretty well set on farming that way, so we ended up parting ways, but on good terms. Now we're letting the land sit fallow for a few years, with hopes of finding an organic farmer. Even though I'm not planning to farm out here, I still decided I needed a tractor of my own, to do some land maintenance from time to time while we're in this holding pattern, and later on for stuff a renting farmer wouldn't be obligated to do. We're planning on an orchard of fruit & nut trees, I'm setting up a private shooting range at the back of the property. Going to be burning wood for heat next winter, having to cut & move a lot. A compact tractor will come in handy for those kinds of things.
Anyway, I'll most likely be a lurker for a good while, just read what you folks have to say. I've been looking at a lot of YouTube videos about tractors (like "Ask Tractor Mike") and have picked up right much already. It's not so foreign, driving one, though I never did until last summer when my cousin brought his out here to do some bush-hogging. I drove big forklifts for years in tobacco shipping & receiving warehouses, and also in a factory that makes small electric motors for automobiles, so some of it comes naturally. The difference is that those forklifts were inside, on smooth concrete floors! Not on occasionally uneven, sometimes muddy, sometimes rutty land outdoors. With some pretty wide & deep farm ditches nearby too. That stuff I'm having to get used to, and am learning the need to be careful in new ways (duh-huh). Don't want that ROPS to ever have to come into play.
Anyway, thanks for letting me in.
I'm a city boy by raising, but inherited a small farm when my Mom passed a few years ago...she grew up out here, it was "Grandma's house" when I was younger. Have been living in the country for almost 3 years now (and loving it), and finally broke down and got a tractor, a Deere 3032E, 31-point-something HP. All I need. Has a front end loader and a bush hog on back; looking to get some pallet forks soon. Then who knows. I'm not a farmer; we had a guy working the land for several decades, but the wife & I decided we wanted to get away from chemical sprays, GMOs, all that stuff. He's pretty well set on farming that way, so we ended up parting ways, but on good terms. Now we're letting the land sit fallow for a few years, with hopes of finding an organic farmer. Even though I'm not planning to farm out here, I still decided I needed a tractor of my own, to do some land maintenance from time to time while we're in this holding pattern, and later on for stuff a renting farmer wouldn't be obligated to do. We're planning on an orchard of fruit & nut trees, I'm setting up a private shooting range at the back of the property. Going to be burning wood for heat next winter, having to cut & move a lot. A compact tractor will come in handy for those kinds of things.
Anyway, I'll most likely be a lurker for a good while, just read what you folks have to say. I've been looking at a lot of YouTube videos about tractors (like "Ask Tractor Mike") and have picked up right much already. It's not so foreign, driving one, though I never did until last summer when my cousin brought his out here to do some bush-hogging. I drove big forklifts for years in tobacco shipping & receiving warehouses, and also in a factory that makes small electric motors for automobiles, so some of it comes naturally. The difference is that those forklifts were inside, on smooth concrete floors! Not on occasionally uneven, sometimes muddy, sometimes rutty land outdoors. With some pretty wide & deep farm ditches nearby too. That stuff I'm having to get used to, and am learning the need to be careful in new ways (duh-huh). Don't want that ROPS to ever have to come into play.
Anyway, thanks for letting me in.
