I have alot of money

[RoyJackson]

for a coupe of hours....We close on a house we're buying at ~ noon today.....Somebody tell my why I shouldn't just high tail it to the nearest dealer and blow it on an enormous tractor and implements aplenty?????? Hmmmm. a family of four could live in a tractor......I'm getting the bullet proof glass on the cab for sure.....Can't have my wife shooting me the moment I pull up....Talk me off the ledge

Well, you won't have a lot of money after the divorce...or after the Mortgage Company takes their money back (since the house secures the loan).

 

[ktm250rider]

WE were in the same boat. At the time, google had just went public. I should have taken just 10% of what we made on selling our house and bought into them. Could have made 5 times my money.
We bought a tractor with some of the money. Best money I spent. To think that i used to do all this work by hand, never again.

 

[Egon]

Whats a lot of Money??

 

[MtnViewRanch]

Whats a lot of Money??

Each person has a different perspective of that simply because the answer is different for each of us. Myself, I think that a lot of $$$$ is any amount that I do not have. So in my case, most everybody around me has a lot of $$$$.

 

[jbrumberg]

for a coupe of hours....We close on a house we're buying at ~ noon today.....Somebody tell my why I shouldn't just high tail it to the nearest dealer and blow it on an enormous tractor and implements aplenty?????? Hmmmm. a family of four could live in a tractor......I'm getting the bullet proof glass on the cab for sure.....Can't have my wife shooting me the moment I pull up....Talk me off the ledge

stayalert:

Welcome to TBN ; I do not know if you will be reading this entry with your overly exhuberent behavior due to an acute case of Tractoritis, Acute Onset . If I remember correctly when we bought our house around 25 years ago we kept writing checks we were not getting any at the closing. Everyone at the closing was smiling; our smiles were probably fear based . Calm down, take a couple of breaths, and distract yourself from your impulses by telling us about your new property, location, property characteristics, short term and long term plans and what you think you need. The membership of TBN will support you through this, provide generally reasonable suggestions and opinions about what you really need (except divorce lawyers), provide you the necessary "reasons" to justify your aquisitions, and really help you spend your money (We really like that .). Be prepared to learn the advanced techniques of whining, grovelling, kowtowing, justification, distraction, and sleeping alone . I will warn you in advance that TBN membership is a quite a journey, but we are all in it together. Good luck, Be Strong, Be Safe- Jay

 

[stayalert]

Many thanks to all of the insightful advice. I no longer have alot of money. we successfully closed and the moving is underway...our move will take a few weeks but I can assure you the hunt will be on for a suitable tractor for our property:
-~12 acres
-1/2 wooded
-1/4 acre skating/swimming pond
- 1 acre shallow pond with vegetation, critters, etc/
- predominantly rolling terrain with some steep terrain (non tractorable - mtn. goat type stuff)
- ~3 acres mowing type grass - plenty of sporadic trees and other mowing obsticles.
- ~3 acres pasture? - prev. owners had a horse - fence is portable (ie rods and electric wire
-~2000 FT driveway not paved
thoughts on tractor needs/wants:
- I can and enjoy fixing and working on things mechanical.
- 4wd desirable
- possible pto generator?
- possible pto h20 pump (to pump water from below ice to top of ice for rink maintenance)?
-I have a small ride on mower, push mower and string trimmer
- interested in cutting prepping wood for woodstove and possible future wood furnace.
- snow plowing is currently performed by neighbor at a reasonable fee, I have a walk behind snowblower.

budget? still scratching chin and sharpening pencils wild *** guess is ~10K for tractor & mower.

all this is or will take place in/near Norwich, VT

so? whadaya think?????

 

[jbrumberg]

stayalert:

Congratulations on your home purchase ! You will have to go used, but there are some pretty good deals on used tractors if you are patient and do not "jump" at the first "deal". My profile is similar to yours with the difference being your water (since your driveway is being plowed). I would think a 4WD tractor and FEL with HP in the high 20's to low 30's should meet your needs especially if you get either weighted R-1's or R-4's. That size tractor can handle 5' attachments. Good luck- Jay