TBN Membership Hits the Wallet...Hard!

[jbrumberg]

Lewis:

I tried to self administer ECT using jumpers running off my tractor's battery terminals without result . Next time I will try this procedure off my alternator leads . As to the OTC medication maybe it is in the ineffectiveness and/or over-sedation of the gin with which I self-medicate that promotes LOFTS-TAAS. Martinis are often considered to be a "poor man's lobotomy". I become too to maintain task oriented, goal directed addictive behavior directed towards Tractor Accessory Acquisition behavior ! It appears that Appleton Jamaican rum provides at least temporary relief. Do not share this disclosure with your "COMPTOLLER" or you will be drinking "liquid lobotomies" too Jay

 

[BTDT]

It has been found that those so infected with TAAS, are prone to prefer certain colors, (may be brought on or enhanced by some aforementioned OTC concoctions). I think there is a disclaimer in small print somewhere that states "TBN not responsible" or some such legal gibberish. In some cases TAAS can be fatal (see safety section), but mostly is a self promoting disease, and those so infected can be seen driving slowly down country roads with a digital camera and a checkbook.

 

[RedRocker]

I fell your pain, so many attachments, so little money!!

 

[YanmarFever]

I can tell you that we dont need a therapy group or meds to get over this.

No guilt either , we earned it !

Im happy that that I have tractor fever as my wife calls it.
Im up to 5 Yanmars and drolling over #6 which arrives in 2 weeks.


More power to us !!!

 

[Soundguy]

Yep.. most people when they get it, it becomes acute and chronic.

I suffer from a particular variant of it.. ( antique tractoritis )...

Soundguy

TBN, a place for all of us people infected with Tractoritus to hang out. Two things about Tractoritus, it is incurable, and you actually seem to want to get worse. A few people here that are infected, seem to be able to hold their own against the disease, but it appears to me that most of us are on a gradual decline into oblivion. We simply cannot control ourselves, and the disease is only slowed by the size of our wallet.

Good luck to all Tractoritus infecties.

 

[dmccarty]

Before I joined TBN, back in December, I lived a life of blissful ignorance. I was happy with the "man toys" stowed in and around my barn/shop.

Whatever you do don't go to a Farm Show. The Southern Farm Show was in Raleigh last week so I took the oldest daughter. I was looking for information on barns, fences, orchards, implements. The daughter just wanted to climb tractors. I bet she got into three dozen tractors. And she made me climb each one. She wanted me to buy a Cat tractor. Not sure of the number but it cost $71,500. She had only brought $3 so we could not buy it. Thankfully she did not see the $195,000 JD tractor. What I wanted was the $40,000ish skid steer, timber axe and hydraulic post hold digger.

Had a great time with the kid. Lots of good memories made. She really got a kick out of the saw mill. I thought I had finally removed that item from my want list. But at the show, I have seen them a couple of times, they did something I had never seen before and it was perfect for me. The Wood Mizer guys where sawing up a Eastern Red Cedar. I have thousands of these trees. They were cutting angles on the tree so that it looked like they where making a six sided column. Very nice with the red/purple showing. Then they started the log spinning like it was on a giant lathe which I did not realize they could do. They they then used the band saw to make the tree round. Very nice. I could really use that for a couple of days...


DONT GO TO THE FARM SHOW!

Later,
Dan

 

[N80]

Rats! I would have gone to that if I had known about it. When will it come back? Where is it going to be next. I want to go. I promise I won't buy anything. I just want to look. Really, I promise!.

Seriously, do you have any info about when and where for next time?

 

[dmccarty]

Rats! I would have gone to that if I had known about it. When will it come back? Where is it going to be next. I want to go. I promise I won't buy anything. I just want to look. Really, I promise!.

Seriously, do you have any info about when and where for next time?

The Southern Farm show is every end of January/Febuary at the fair grounds in Raliegh. Here is their website. My quick glance did not see a date for 2008 but they have a subsriber link.

Southern Farm Show - Southern Farm Show

We quickly walked through it in 2.5 hours. I would have stopped and talked to some vendors but the six year old made that hard to do. Its certainly a great place to go if you are looking to get prices on tractors, I think every brand had a VERY LARGE display with at least half dozen to a dozen tractors.

What was nice was the people. I had noticed that lots of people would just suddenly meet someone they had not seen for a while. Since the show "covers" SC, NC, and VA, people are traveling to get here. I had just witnessed the upteeneth meet and greet when I heard someone call MY name! It was the man who dug our foundation, filled up the same with 67 stone, as well as brought us topsoil and more gravel.

Later,
Dan

 

[MtnViewRanch]

I'm going to the ag show in Tulare Calif next week for 3 days. I was thinking that it would give me a fix that would last a month or so. But I don't know now, could end up having to sell the house to pay for the stuff that I might end up buying. And if I sell the house, then I would't have any place to use the stuff that I just bought.

Oh well, if I'm lucky I will meet some great new people and not spend to much $$$. I can only hope for the best.

 

[TractorLegend]

Tractoritis huh?
I just want a simple rear blade for my CK30HST to grade my 100 ft gravel drive at the rec property, then some say I should use a box blade or just a heavy log with chainlink wrapped around it as a pull...I know full well however a blade will lead to the want/ need for Tip n Tilt since my hilly driveway is canted. So I have been living with a rutted driveway. Maybe its cheaper to hire a local with a tractor for the once a year need. Ego gets in the way of that.