1720BlueBell
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My intro to the wonders of tractors was in the '60s with a Silver King 3 wheeler. We worked part of 30 acres in Pa. with it. Soon we got the MM to handle plowing and baling. The Silver King remained my favorite, especially after I rolled the MM on a side hill that the SK handled with ease! I was 12 at the time, got the 3 bottom plow stuck (no surprise) behind the SK, walked back to the barn for the MM, started out for the field, remembered I didn't have the correct hasp, and tried to turn around. I got to stay home from 6th grade for several weeks while recovering. That was cool!!!
My present tractor is the Ford 1720 with backhoe, loader, Rhino scraper, snowplow. It certainly is a much more useful piece of equipment.
We've got 3 acres in the 4 Corners region of Colorado. As we are not farming any of it, we use the tractor for logging, brush work, ditch digging, general land and road grading, snow removal, etc. I've been out on the drying pond bottom at times with the hoe, digging fish habitat and gathering soil amendment for gardening. I also drag a sheet of metal across the pond bottom at times to remove excess weeds. These weeds are teeming with crawfish, and make great garden mulch-think kelp. I like to joke I'm possibly the only gardener in sw Colorado who mulches his gardens with seaweed.
So, in a nutshell, I'm glad to have found this forum and look forward to hours and hours of enjoyment and education.
My present tractor is the Ford 1720 with backhoe, loader, Rhino scraper, snowplow. It certainly is a much more useful piece of equipment.
We've got 3 acres in the 4 Corners region of Colorado. As we are not farming any of it, we use the tractor for logging, brush work, ditch digging, general land and road grading, snow removal, etc. I've been out on the drying pond bottom at times with the hoe, digging fish habitat and gathering soil amendment for gardening. I also drag a sheet of metal across the pond bottom at times to remove excess weeds. These weeds are teeming with crawfish, and make great garden mulch-think kelp. I like to joke I'm possibly the only gardener in sw Colorado who mulches his gardens with seaweed.
So, in a nutshell, I'm glad to have found this forum and look forward to hours and hours of enjoyment and education.
