Strange non-uses for a tractor.

[snowbound]

There's a guy building a little stone wall for me for on my place. I came by to see the progress and there was good progress and he had dug the footings by hand and poured the concrete and was manhandling boulders out of one of our stone walls.

So I told him about the tractor I have with the loader. (New Holland TC35D/16LA for those keeping score.) I suggested that would move the boulders more easily. Plus, we could get them from up the hill where we got lots of stone to spare.

Turns out my wife also told him about the tractor when he started out, but maybe it didn't sink in.

I guess tomorrow when masons from that company show up to build the wall and we also get stone from up my hill to fill in the part where the guy took it all out of the nearby wall maybe _they_ will think using the tractor with the front end loader makes more sense.

I don't get it. I mean, if it was _me_ rolling boulders around (they were too big to lift them into the wheelbarrow) I would have thought "well yeah that tractor with the loader sounds pretty useful right about now". But no, that's not what this guy thought.

 

[ScottAR]

About all I can say is some people just don't get it. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

I wouldn't be without my diesel powered, self loading, all terrian wheelbarrow. /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

 

[Slamfire]

He was gettin' paid by the hour. /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

 

[Soundguy]

He might have been intimidated by it. We hire 'temp' laborers from one of the many staff leasing companies. Occasionally we get a good open minded fellow.. but for the most part these guys just want to do grunt work.. don't want to get anywhere near something with wheels and a big diesel engine...

I remember the first time i drove a tractor.. I have to admit.. it was a bit of a new feeling.. especially loading it and unloading it from my trailer the first time.. etc

Soundguy

 

[avorancher]

Intimated. I know the feeling. I had driven trucks, motorcycles, ATVs, road race cars, drag strip cars, and been around vehicles most of my life (in the city). When my B7800 was delivered, I had the driver take it off the truck and park it in my driveway.

After he left, I jumped on and realized I had no idea how to operate it. It turned out to be rather easy, but quite intimating to someone who grew up in the city. I actually had to read the manual... not something that I easily admit to.

 

[Chuck52]

Maybe he was worried about liability, using someone else's equipment?

Chuck

 

[Taylortractornut]

I had a boss like thet from Wisconsin, on a job down here in the south. He had 10 concrete laborers hand digging a 12 foot long trench 12 inches wide and deep. I went over there with the backhoe dug it in 15 minutes whelie the concrete guys helped with the pour. He said it hurt their feelings but i told him that the company was paying 8 dollars an hour for laborers, plus they had been working in hard sticky clay with rocks. so they hadnt got far they were way off grade and had been at it 3 hours already. I made 14 an hour then I go take the Case hoe and have the trenche straight dug on grade in 15 minutes. He still couldnt see the point.

 

[Soundguy]

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Same with my NH 1920... I opened up the pasture gate for the NH transport driver... and he drove the tractor off the truck and parked it right in my barn... and I too read the manual..

Soundguy

 

[PineRidge]

Maybe he was intimidated by the thought of the tractor doing the best part of his job.

 

[dieselsmoke1]

I'm with you, Slamfire....