daedong
Veteran Member
I have spoken to Henro by phone and he told me he left purely because he was spending too much of his time here. basically wanted to get back to a more active and fulfilling life. He had no qualms about TBN
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btolle
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I can certainly understand the time factor. About the only forum I visit here is the Kubota Owning/Operating.
I also visit 2 Jeep forums regularly and a couple of others occasionally.
If I not careful I will spend several hours a day reading and responding to forums. Add to that a couple of new sites I read and I can fritter the whole day away.
I have a cure though. We are leaving for Buena Vista, Colorado in the morning and won't be back until Oct. 1. The downside is I bought a Wi-Fi card for my laptop so I may be able to find a decent connection.
In reality this is all a matter of dealing with my abundance. I have been blessed with a wonderful wife, a great business that allows me a lot of leisure time, and the financial wherewithal to travel 3 or 4 times a year. I have it made and I am really grateful for all of it.
And we all have the Internet. Think of how much help and advice we would have all missed out on if we didn't have the Internet and this forum.
I'll miss this group while I'm gone but I'll be back, still lots of tractor work to do around here.
You are a great group and we should all concentrate on trying to help one another no matter what color tractor we own or anything else.
Bill Tolle
I also visit 2 Jeep forums regularly and a couple of others occasionally.
If I not careful I will spend several hours a day reading and responding to forums. Add to that a couple of new sites I read and I can fritter the whole day away.
I have a cure though. We are leaving for Buena Vista, Colorado in the morning and won't be back until Oct. 1. The downside is I bought a Wi-Fi card for my laptop so I may be able to find a decent connection.
In reality this is all a matter of dealing with my abundance. I have been blessed with a wonderful wife, a great business that allows me a lot of leisure time, and the financial wherewithal to travel 3 or 4 times a year. I have it made and I am really grateful for all of it.
And we all have the Internet. Think of how much help and advice we would have all missed out on if we didn't have the Internet and this forum.
I'll miss this group while I'm gone but I'll be back, still lots of tractor work to do around here.
You are a great group and we should all concentrate on trying to help one another no matter what color tractor we own or anything else.
Bill Tolle
rox
Veteran Member
If you could, the next time you speak to Henro please let him kow that therre is a lady in France who misses him on TBN. I go through similar stages, sometimes it seems like I spend a lot of time here, althoguh I'm not postin, I'm lurking. Then I can go for quite a long time without even peeking. Depends on how busy I am on the farm.
When my husband and I bought our farm about a year and a half ago, Henro along with others were extreemply helpful, extreemly, to me explaining the tractor. My husband early retired as a French Chef/Restaurant owner and the only thing he knows about mechanics is how to jump a battery. Although he did learn quite a bit about plumbing in his years of cooking.
We are both making progress, he even fixed the sprayer by himself yesterday, without having to call the neighbor fo help.
Henro and others, and you know who you are, Bird & oh I just can't think of the names right off top of my head, you were a big help to me. When Henro is ready he'll be back. Probably when he goes to buy another piece of equipment. And when he does it will make for a better TBN community. Merci, Henro! Ah BCZoom, I jsut thought of another one who helped us so much.
When my husband and I bought our farm about a year and a half ago, Henro along with others were extreemply helpful, extreemly, to me explaining the tractor. My husband early retired as a French Chef/Restaurant owner and the only thing he knows about mechanics is how to jump a battery. Although he did learn quite a bit about plumbing in his years of cooking.
We are both making progress, he even fixed the sprayer by himself yesterday, without having to call the neighbor fo help.
Henro and others, and you know who you are, Bird & oh I just can't think of the names right off top of my head, you were a big help to me. When Henro is ready he'll be back. Probably when he goes to buy another piece of equipment. And when he does it will make for a better TBN community. Merci, Henro! Ah BCZoom, I jsut thought of another one who helped us so much.
daedong
Veteran Member
Rox,
I remember the thread "How grip up and down steep hills" , That was a while back. Did you ever solve the problem?
I do not talk to Henro very often as i live in Australia, When i call him next i will mention you miss him on TBN.
I remember the thread "How grip up and down steep hills" , That was a while back. Did you ever solve the problem?
I do not talk to Henro very often as i live in Australia, When i call him next i will mention you miss him on TBN.
rox
Veteran Member
daedong,
Yes you remember well, the hills were terrifying. What we did is figure out how to get the smaller articulated tractor to work. My husband feels safer on that tractor. Also the tires are filled. He only uses the big tractor which holds the PTO driven sprayers to go up the big hills for spraying. Basically it was fill the tires, and minimize the trips with the big tactor.
Through TBN I have learned about an implement called a Box Blade. We totally need that, he should run the box blade on the drives up and down the hills to smooth them out, cuz they are rather full of ruts. I will keep my eyes peeled in France to see about getting a used BoxBlade. Also my husband has gotten a bit more experience on the tractors, so he isn't as terrified. It still makes him quezy but it wasn't like before. He always back down the hills.
Depending on the ahrvest this November and December, 2006 might jsut be the year we buy some equipment. We are very conservative and like to have the money in the bank before we buy since we are so new to farming. Like to keep the bills paid, and not have any credit. We sleep better that way. In our former lives when we had more regualr income we would stretch now and then to invest in things, but we are not taking any chances finacially jsut yet. Need to have more than one crop picked and sold that is for sure.
We did real well our first year though. We sold everything, and we sold it to quite prestigious clubs in USA, I mean you would recognize them. The oil is really the tops. We have a small inventory to carry us through the end fo the year but basically we grew it, we scrambled to find cusotmers, that was hard, and we sold it and got paid.
The farm, so far appears to be able to provide us with a moderate income, and that is all we were looking for. We have other investments, we just wanted to make a moderate income and enjoy our life, and after a year and a half we have reached the goals we set. Basically we are happy!
We are happy with our decision, our transatlantic move, and our life. It is a good life, we love our work on the olive farm, it is a challenge to learn something completely new. It is more or less keeping us young (I'm 51 my hubby is 54). The crop this year doesn't look as big as last year but it still looks pretty good. But OMG do we have prunning to do, I will probably spend 2 more years jsut prunning every chance I have. But then the trees will all be lower and it won't be so bad to just do maintence pruning. Right now we are doing remidial prunning, the farm hand from the previous owner let these trees get way to tall. But we'll geter done! /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
Thanks for asking BTW.
Yes you remember well, the hills were terrifying. What we did is figure out how to get the smaller articulated tractor to work. My husband feels safer on that tractor. Also the tires are filled. He only uses the big tractor which holds the PTO driven sprayers to go up the big hills for spraying. Basically it was fill the tires, and minimize the trips with the big tactor.
Through TBN I have learned about an implement called a Box Blade. We totally need that, he should run the box blade on the drives up and down the hills to smooth them out, cuz they are rather full of ruts. I will keep my eyes peeled in France to see about getting a used BoxBlade. Also my husband has gotten a bit more experience on the tractors, so he isn't as terrified. It still makes him quezy but it wasn't like before. He always back down the hills.
Depending on the ahrvest this November and December, 2006 might jsut be the year we buy some equipment. We are very conservative and like to have the money in the bank before we buy since we are so new to farming. Like to keep the bills paid, and not have any credit. We sleep better that way. In our former lives when we had more regualr income we would stretch now and then to invest in things, but we are not taking any chances finacially jsut yet. Need to have more than one crop picked and sold that is for sure.
We did real well our first year though. We sold everything, and we sold it to quite prestigious clubs in USA, I mean you would recognize them. The oil is really the tops. We have a small inventory to carry us through the end fo the year but basically we grew it, we scrambled to find cusotmers, that was hard, and we sold it and got paid.
The farm, so far appears to be able to provide us with a moderate income, and that is all we were looking for. We have other investments, we just wanted to make a moderate income and enjoy our life, and after a year and a half we have reached the goals we set. Basically we are happy!
We are happy with our decision, our transatlantic move, and our life. It is a good life, we love our work on the olive farm, it is a challenge to learn something completely new. It is more or less keeping us young (I'm 51 my hubby is 54). The crop this year doesn't look as big as last year but it still looks pretty good. But OMG do we have prunning to do, I will probably spend 2 more years jsut prunning every chance I have. But then the trees will all be lower and it won't be so bad to just do maintence pruning. Right now we are doing remidial prunning, the farm hand from the previous owner let these trees get way to tall. But we'll geter done! /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
Thanks for asking BTW.
