Hello from Slovakia!

[ultrarunner]

Your tractor is so modern compared to what I had to work with in Austria...

 

[Andy12]

:laughing::laughing: There are plenty of old ones around here! Neighbour next door only sold his horse 3 yrs ago. The favourites are Zetor with a lot of Belarus as well.
I trailered this over from the UK last April. But parts are difficult to get. Nearest dealer about 4 hrs away.

 

[ultrarunner]

The one I am on is a Steyr circa 1952...

It took several years of selling timber to buy it... very dear at the time and faithful more than 30+ years...

Nothing sounds like a single cylinder diesel...

Stateside in California I am Kubota, Deere, Ford and Caterpillar...

 

[Andy12]

Nice!

 

[ultrarunner]

Are you able to farm to make a living?

The reason I ask is it is harder to do that in neighboring Austria.

So much of the small family farms have someone working outside the farm or they have set up Bed and Breakfast for tourism to help out?

I have spent a little time in Slovakia especially to and from the airport just over the boarder.

How did you master English... you have great command of the language!

 

[EddieWalker]

:laughing:
Our red deer usually leave us alone, but in a cold Autumn they get a bit hungry! In 2018 we had the last strawberries on the plants, which I'd left as it was sunny, thinking I'd pick them the next day. They went overnight... wit most of the plants too.

Do you have Fallow and Roe deer? What about mouflon and ibex?

 

[Andy12]

Are you able to farm to make a living?

The reason I ask is it is harder to do that in neighboring Austria.

So much of the small family farms have someone working outside the farm or they have set up Bed and Breakfast for tourism to help out?

I have spent a little time in Slovakia especially to and from the airport just over the boarder.

How did you master English... you have great command of the language!

Very similar here. The communal farms of the communist era didn’t take over in this area as in the flatter lands of Slovakia. They were always subsistence smallholders here, the land originally divided in narrow strips (c. 25m wide) from valley bottom to the top of the ridge (2km or so). This area became an early tourist destination and it is still so today, with many holiday homes, guest houses and small hotels. Most families take in at least a few paying guests in the season.
Our plot is tiny, but the tractor is great for saving my back mowing in the summer, and doing the digging for our building works.
English is ok I suppose - not perfect perhaps, cos I’m Welsh!!

 

[Andy12]

Do you have Fallow and Roe deer? What about mouflon and ibex?

I’ve only seen red deer here, but there are roe and fallow. Mouflon have been introduced, but in the Low Tatras. We have chamois, but no ibex.

 

[Zibi57]

Andy12: I am at home ;-)
It means in Poland, close to the Bydgoszcz town. As you can see with friend

Zibi

 

[Andy12]

:thumbsup: