I'm a retired paramedic slowly turning ten acres of avalanche into a self-reliant homestead on the slopes of the Fraser Canyon in BC, Canada.
We have more rocks, boulders, and trees than dirt, and almost nothing that you'd call soil. Consequently it's just about impossible to make any real progress without a tractor of some sort.
My tractor is a Ford 1920 4wd with a FEL, a brush hog, and a 3 point rotor tiller. (I've never even attached the tiller, which came with the tractor. I'm pretty sure it won't work on 500 lb boulders.)
Someone recently backed into my 500 gallon bulk fuel tank, necessitating repairs to the stand. I made a set of pallet forks from 2x4s for the one-time task of removing and replacing the tank, and have since found that I need them almost every week.
I have ordered a Piranha toothbar, and I'm very eager to receive it. I expect to use it more than any other attachment, as wild cherry and vine maple are pervasive weeds here, and because every cubic foot of garden must be created from little pockets of dirt dug from between the rocks. (I'll show you when I figure out how to add photos.)
I was raised on a cattle ranch with several hundred acres of corn and alfalfa; my dad had almost completely switched from horses to tractors for field work by the time I came along, and we were strictly John Deere folks.
Whenever I wasn't straddling a horse I was running an A, a B, an MT, a 60 or a 630. I never expected to own a tractor that wasn't green, but this little Ford suits my requirements perfectly.
Thanks for accepting my membership,
I've been reading TBN forums for the past two years and have learned a lot from other owners.
We have more rocks, boulders, and trees than dirt, and almost nothing that you'd call soil. Consequently it's just about impossible to make any real progress without a tractor of some sort.
My tractor is a Ford 1920 4wd with a FEL, a brush hog, and a 3 point rotor tiller. (I've never even attached the tiller, which came with the tractor. I'm pretty sure it won't work on 500 lb boulders.)
Someone recently backed into my 500 gallon bulk fuel tank, necessitating repairs to the stand. I made a set of pallet forks from 2x4s for the one-time task of removing and replacing the tank, and have since found that I need them almost every week.
I have ordered a Piranha toothbar, and I'm very eager to receive it. I expect to use it more than any other attachment, as wild cherry and vine maple are pervasive weeds here, and because every cubic foot of garden must be created from little pockets of dirt dug from between the rocks. (I'll show you when I figure out how to add photos.)
I was raised on a cattle ranch with several hundred acres of corn and alfalfa; my dad had almost completely switched from horses to tractors for field work by the time I came along, and we were strictly John Deere folks.
Whenever I wasn't straddling a horse I was running an A, a B, an MT, a 60 or a 630. I never expected to own a tractor that wasn't green, but this little Ford suits my requirements perfectly.
Thanks for accepting my membership,
I've been reading TBN forums for the past two years and have learned a lot from other owners.
