Starting to feel irrelevant...

[riptides]

So one week after getting the 13 year old introduced to the tractor, I am fighting the women off. Granted it was just an introduction into the tractor operations, but it seems to be getting away from me.

This past w/e, HHH (hazy, Hot and Humid) the wife and I are in the back, recovering YAP (yet another pasture). She is asking for barbed wire removal instructions. No problem, I need all the help I can get. (Note: I need better advise on barbed wire removal, I have old wire, thousands of feet).

She mentions it would be nice to wack the pasture down with the bushhog. No problem, I say "If your OK with the wire, I'll go do the pasture". I return on the tractor and get to cutting. Sure beats the wire.... /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

After making one pass I get the old stop signal. What? /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif Must be some tough wire. /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

Nah, she wants to drive. /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif Ya... but... but...

So after giving instructions, off she goes. No stalls, nice lines, and a happy face to boot. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif When she is done, she gets off and says "awesome", "I LIKED that!".

Oh boy, after two years, I held off for two years....

I take my pricked arms and drenched body, dragging my bleeding uncomfortable self back to the house.

Guess I am going to need another tractor... /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

-Mike Z. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[RedRocker]

You are doomed, I feel your pain. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

 

[gmsssi]

It's your own **** fault! /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

I've been praised by a few TBNer's for doing the smart thing and buying the wifes tractor first. Keeps her outta my seat! Like I've said before, the best money I spent was buying her, her own tractor! /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

 

[Indydirtfarmer]

My wife grew up on a farm. She had 10 sisters, and only 2 brothers. John and Tony "departed" for the Navy as soon as they were old enough. Sandy became her dads #1 helper after that. She can do about anything there is to do on a tractor. For that reason, she doesn't get the big thrill out of seat time that you might expect.

A little over 4 years ago, I bought a new combine. (Actually, not new, but a lease return with 1 seasons use on it) Since I needed to learn everything about the new combine too, it was decided that Sandy would make a good combine operator. She went through the orientation with the dealer right along with me.

Now she's the designated combine driver.... Last fall, she wouldn't even let me get in it.... $200,000 toy that I don't even get to play with.... /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

 

[frank_f15]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Last fall, she wouldn't even let me get in it.... $200,000 toy that I don't even get to play with....
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YEH! But u get to do the important stuff LIKE PAY FOR IT /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

 

[ByronBob]

In a few years when the boys come around she'll forget all about you even owning a tractor!! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[trlong]

OK, I really wanted my wife to learn to drive the tractor, atleast enough so that if it had to be moved (like off from me) she'd know how to safely. I'm going to re-think the safety issue. Maybe it is best she doesn't even know where to insert the key. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Indydirtfarmer]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( OK, I really wanted my wife to learn to drive the tractor, atleast enough so that if it had to be moved (like off from me) she'd know how to safely. I'm going to re-think the safety issue. Maybe it is best she doesn't even know where to insert the key. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif )</font>

Teach her how to get the tractor OFF of you, and you are also teaching her how to put it ON you.... /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

 

[trlong]

I hadn't thought of that /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif I'm definitely hiding the keys!

 

[txhawg]

riptides,

Please tell me you're pulling our leg. You are relinquishing your rights to your own tractor to your wife? Who wears the pants in your family? You need to tell her to get her butt of YOUR tractor and get working that wire. Then place YOUR butt in the seat of YOUR tractor, and get back to playing, er, I mean work. Don't wimp out on me, man, or you will be doomed to a life of subservience to a woman. Letting a woman drive your tractor contaminates the fluids, wears out the tires, and causes bad things to happen to the real owner, like getting a bunch of open, bleeding sores like those caused by barbed wire. Take it back, before it's too late!