One of my neighbors just bought a new tractor! I instructed him to join TBN.
I was driving by one one morning about a week ago, on my way to work, and saw a few implements sitting next to his garage. A box blade and rotary mower. I texted him when I got to work, apparently he got a new JD that was in his garage. I came over the next day to have a look. Very nice, small, JD 3025E. He had some questions about it, and we talked tractors for a few hours. It was fun!
But for my other neighbors in the area:
The farmer down the road has a few older IH tractors. Next up is a barrowed Branson something. He borrows it from his father during the summer months to mow his fields. Next neighbor has nothing, but hires me to do small work on their property. Then the neighbor I share a driveway with has a 20hp Mahindra with no implements. He has a bucket and a snow plow. Only uses the thing to mess up the driveway in the winter.
Then there is me. 45HP LS XR4145C with tons of implements who seems to know everyone close by and does tons of work for all my neighbors leaving my projects to suffer.
Up the hill from me is my closes neighbor, friend wise. He doesn't have a tractor, other than an old Ford 8N that he never uses. Not even sure it runs. Instead he uses a telehandler. I forget the size, make/model, and its quite old. He bought it used from a rental company. He uses a 4-wheeler with a plow for his driveway in winter.
Down the hill from him is another neighbor who hires me to do all their tractoring work/needs. He is a bit reclusive and only sends me texts and crypto as payment. I've only ever met him in person once, years ago.
Next to him is another neighbor with TONS of land and no machinery whatsoever... well, except for an ATV. He also hires me to care for his property. Nice guy.
Up the road from that neighbor is another close friend of mine. He is another neighbor who borrows an older New Holland 50-ish HP something. Open station tractor with FEL. He borrows it from his folks when he needs to do some work. Borrows my implements from time to time.
Thats about it. We have some other neighbors in the area who dont do anything, or have anything as far as I know. They are further away and I hardly have contact with them, other than knowing their vehicles and waving as we pass on the road.