Keep your wife off your tractor

[Soundguy]

My wife is the sweetest woman alive...BUT she wrecks every car I buy her and its always someone elses fault. There is no way in he|| I would let her drive a 50 hp tractor around with a loader. I can just hear it now. "You didn't tell me I had to watch out for the loader" or "I thought I heard something funny sounding. I didn't know fencing made that sound when it was being ripped from the ground"

Reminds me of my wife.. she has hit our electric gate 3 times now.. and we've just had it a year or little more. Once it pretzelized the 16' gate.. once it ripped the posts out, and once it knocked the post over and sheared off the hinges, but the gate was fixable.

soundguy

 

[RobJ]

Golf and Tractors, keep them away.

 

[Farmwithjunk]

Golf and Tractors, keep them away.

NOW you tell me...

Bill (who's wife drums him every time we play a round of golf together.)

 

[pitt_md]

Reminds me of my wife.. she has hit our electric gate 3 times now.. and we've just had it a year or little more. Once it pretzelized the 16' gate.. once it ripped the posts out, and once it knocked the post over and sheared off the hinges, but the gate was fixable.

soundguy

OK, thanks a lot Soundguy. I just shot coffee through my nose all over the screen. People are stopping by my office to see if I'm ok.....

 

[rutwad]

TOO LATE! My wife has been using our tractor for 20 some years.
My wife is right in the thick of things no matter what I'm doing. I feel lucky and I have help. Trimming trees she drives I'm in the FEL bucket, Painting she drives I'm in the bucket. Wait a minute, why am I always in the bucket????? I need to change that!

R U Crazy? Tell your insurance man to call you ASAP if your life insurance policy is suddenly increased!

Actually, I think it's great. My mother has been helping with tractors as long as I can remember. My wife is learning as well. My wife's first experience as pulling a drag hare with a Farmall H. I was cutting the grass and I had to turn the mower off just to make sure the Farmall was still running. She was idling in 1st, but at least she helped. Any when my mother says "my tractor", we all know she is talking about the cab Kubota. It's great having help around the house.

 

[Soundguy]

OK, thanks a lot Soundguy. I just shot coffee through my nose all over the screen. People are stopping by my office to see if I'm ok.....

Yep.. 2 times she just outright hit it.. backed right into it.. one time she hit it while it was moving... The gate has a delay timer.. IE.. you can set how long is stays open for before it automatically closes.. something like 10 seconds to 2 minutes.. etc. I wanted to set it for 45 seconds.. that way i can lock the house door.. hit the keypad onthe side of the house to open it, and be in my vehicle and started by the time the gate is open.. then back out.. she wanted 30 seconds so no one could 'slip in' behind us.. well.. that 30 second thing has caused half the problems. Every time I mention lengthening the time.. she veto's me.. I think I'm just gonna have to do it and not tell her..

soundguy

 

[blagg]

Cant wait til snow season maybe I'll teach my wife how to run the rear mounted snow blower. That will be good for a few learning experiances. She doesnt like me to tell her, she likes to figure it out herself. She will be going forward trying to figure out why it dont blow.

 

[jaybrad]

I told my wife from day 1 that I was planning to be sure she knows how to use the tractor. Especially during the winter with the rear mount snow blower.

I have to travel on occasion and last year (before we got the tractor) on one such trip we got about 6" of new snow every day I was away. She's a pretty bright, independent person, so I know she'll be OK if she's in that position this year. But the truth is I really like using the tractor and snowblower - and would race her to the garage if she even hinted that she was going to deprive me of that job.

She did the same thing when I got back into motorcycles about 10 years ago. She took an MSF course and got her m/c license, just in case she needed to drive the motorcycle - but that's never happened (and probably never will), which is a good thing for both of us (and the Harley).

Jay

 

[JRobyn]

One main reason I opted to buy a new Kubota was an old goat farmer we talked to a year or two before we bought. He had a small HST Kubota with FEL, and said he'd bought it because his wife (several years younger) found it simple to operate, and it was versatile enough and dependable enough that he could count on it and her to be able to keep up the farm after he passed on. As my wife is also a good bit younger than me, I found it to be a sound argument!

- Jay

 

[sixdogs]

Yes, keep the wife OFF but teach her enough to be able to LIFT the 3 PT hitch and be able to turn the thing--plus PTO-- off in the event of an emergency . She could save your azz. Might not want to but could.
As well, teach her how to mow the grass so if you pass away first she can at least not worry about maintaining the place.

My wife once drove--not backed --into my Kubota M8950 tractor pulling a NH 570 baler with thrower and three rack-type kicker wagons hooked to the back. This must have been an 80? ft train in the middle of a 50 acre flat field.
She never wanted on them anyway but that sealed her fate.