overheard the wife

texastomtom · Oct 15, 2004

just thought i'd mention something

overheard the wife telling one of here friends today that I had a really neat tractor and equipment..

relevant mainly cause she has not been real happy with my purchase..... I think she is starting to dig it /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

wooo hoo !!!!

bczoom · Oct 15, 2004

Isn't that a great thing when she does that.

I believe my wife does that on occasion when she's at work.
We had a B'day party for my daughter a few weeks ago. Many of the attendees were from suburbia. The lovely Mrs. bczoom made it a point to take them out and show them all the equipment.
Now she does give me a hard time now and then about too much seat time but was excited about giving the tour and proud of all the toys (I mean tools)..

PineRidge · Oct 15, 2004

Texastomtom that's how it starts, next she will have the spare key..... /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

My wife has been after me the last couple of weeks to teach her how to operate the TC-40D. I love my wife dearly, but I have seen her use a tool or two in the past and it isn't graceful. Think I ought to give in here? /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

Varmintmist · Oct 15, 2004

Pine, end every instruction with "not doing this can get you dead" Teach her, tell her what she can do and cant do. They hate that, but thats why you end the sentance with "dead" Keep her just shuffelling things around or mowing flat areas for now.

Mine was a city girl, and didnt take to the tractor at first. But the 850 was easy to run and you can do a lot with a small tractor that takes a lot more to do by hand.

The 3510 I think is intimidating her some. About twice as many levers and a lot bigger. She drove it at the dealers, but not since it got home. This weekend she is going to get some seat time. It is real handy to have a spare operator at times.

MikeFromVA · Oct 15, 2004

My wife was surprised by the cost of my tractor. However, two weeks after I got it, a friend was over and we were taking turns [strike]having fun[/strike] clearing some underbrush to make a backyard. She came up to me and watched him for a few minutes and commented about the tractor:
"That thing is (insert expletive) awesome!" /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

Cliff_Johns · Oct 15, 2004

( Pine, end every instruction with "not doing this can get you dead" . . . )

If you scare the bejeebers out of her, she may insist you sell it because she doesn't want YOU dead.

Cliff

MikeFromVA · Oct 15, 2004

( If you scare the bejeebers out of her, she may insist you sell it because she doesn't want YOU dead.

Cliff
)

Or she may insist that you buy more life insurance... /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

Mark4510 · Oct 15, 2004

Varmint,
You are exactly right. Mine was a city girl as well and was a bit overwhelmed with the levers and power and noise. She has had some seat time and really likes it but her area of interest/expertise is limited to the arena.

So far she is a fan of having the tractor and all the time it saves so I can do other things. Sort of reminds me of Henro's thread. "If I want to get all the things done that I want to I need a tractor."

Mark

chim · Oct 16, 2004

I'm a "townie" who has been blessed with a farm girl. When we built, it was obvious the chain store riding mower wouldn't cut it. First came a Cub LoBoy, then the Ford 1210. A couple years ago while looking for another tractor, Wifey somehow thought it would be a good idea to have a tractor with a loader. So it was easy to add the B7500. She has often said since then that we'd be lost without it. She has no desire to operate either tractor, but enjoys seeing our boys help out...........chim

SPIKER · Oct 16, 2004

I can only say that if the woman said "She was having fun with some NEW EQUIPMENT" this I would have to make sure there was no new pool boys close by! /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

as for keeping them off the TOYS we have then one reason I choose a gear drive tractor! hahaha. those hydros are too easy to learn to run and then all the FUN is gone and they get used to having "POWER between their legs" which could leave US GUYS setting on the back porch wishing we were out back playing err working /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

MarkM /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif