Paying for itself.

[cowboydoc]

Did the advice work out for you Chip? I hope it helped. Like your analogy there on the backhoe, haha. My wife is actually pretty dang good about things. I can't complain one bit about her, she's my one in a million. She does get on me now and then but I have spent alot on this little 4600.

 

[Alan L.]

I rented a tiller to put in about 3000 sq feet of turf. The tiller was only $55 a day - a good deal. But the Kubota dealer I rented it from (a Befco tiller) is 25 miles away. I had to go get the tiller on my trailer, fill out the paper work. Took about 90 minutes of daylight to do that. Used the tiller maybe 2 or 3 hours, but ahd to actually put the sod down before it dried out. Couldn't get the tiller back in time and kept if over the weekend. Charged for 3 days = $165. Then the dealer accused me of causing a harmless dent in the tiller that was clearly already on it before I rented it.

A royal pain in the a$$, and I could have put hat $165 toward a tiller of my own. Wish I had.

Alan L., TX

 

[LazyK]

Doc Richard...re: arena grooming, your tip to me on cross hatching the surface with my box-blade teeth not so aggressively deep was a big help in eliminating the woop-de-doos in my covered arena. I have been scarifying the sub-surface, plowing soft the material too deeply. Coupled with long periods between arena watering and dragging the floor too fast with a chain harrow, I was wash-boarding the nice soft DEEP sand into peaks and ruts. Now, after a 2-3 inch deep drag with the box blade teeth, the surface has homogenized to a not-so-deep consistency that my customers are happy with...'specially them Dree-Sage people. Thanks fer the adviserations.

Lazy K - Chip

 

[jdkid]

Hi ya
yep i'll side with ya's on the convenience but there are 2 sides to the story .as most of ya know i work on a big farm (partner owns it) now years ago i worked on "we need"must have"there's work for it" so we had all the toys mowers balers plows tillers seeddrills etc etc 2 tractors all up 1/2 mill dollars in gear now on our new farm i'll have 200 000 dollars in gear .ok i can't do all i did but 300 000 on overdaft at 12% add's up fast +for 36 000 ya can get alot done with out turning a key ,in NZ alot of people are now useing contractors and putting captal money in to stock (cows sheep not blue chip) fert and better grasses ie things that make money .but in alot of you guys cases with smaller places (sorry i say part time )haveing the gear to suit your time frame ie weekends after work etc etc is a wise move pitty most are so far away from each other as 1 off kind of gear or only used part of the time can't work on others places ie cowboydoc's back hoe works at jinman's and jinmans post driver (pick a tool) dose cowboydoc's post driveing .conveniece is not the right word when ya hays good to go it look's like rain and the contractor rings ya up and say's "i'm broken down and will not be there till tomorrow"
catch ya
JD Kid