tractorenthusiast
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Hello,
Like many of you, I LOVE tractors, even the crappy ones they sell at TSC. I began loving tractors at a very early age. I remember going out to the pole-barn and sitting on my grand-dad's Farmall M, pushing all of the buttons and pulling all of the levers. He was the kindest man, he barely scolded me for killing the battery, the many-many times that I did. I think he realized, very early on, that he'd better teach me how to use one before I decided to teach myself. It wasn't very long before it was my responsibility to mow his (7-acre) yard and my mom's (5-acre) yard with his trusty 9n (that I always assumed, he traded 2 mules and a bushel of corn for in the 40s). I continued to mow the lawns and the lanes and the trails in the woods with the 9n for a couple of years after he passed in 98'. My lack of mechanical skills, and a good deal led me to a MF135 (AWESOME TRACTOR-she pulled numerous 4x4s out of many-a mudhole) which served me well, for the rest of my drunken youth, until I flipped it one afternoon piss drunk off of a case of Busch. That spelled the end of the 135. After the Massey died, I ended up buying a series of TSC, $1300 mowers, that only lasted about a year a-piece. That's not bad, considering that the typical homeowner that buys these things only rack up about 15-20 years a year. I was doing 140-150. That leads me to today. My JD530X was delivered today at about 11a.m. I spent most of the day mowing foot-tall grass, breaking-in the new farm-horse. I decided that I have too much yard, and am going to let some of it go back to nature, about half of it. Don't worry, I no longer drink-and-mow. I have every intention to preserve this mower for the future generations who are blessed to have so much grass to mow.
----P.S- I am a very experienced floor installer (tile, hardwood,and vinyl...backsplashes and showers too) holler at me if you have any ??????s
Like many of you, I LOVE tractors, even the crappy ones they sell at TSC. I began loving tractors at a very early age. I remember going out to the pole-barn and sitting on my grand-dad's Farmall M, pushing all of the buttons and pulling all of the levers. He was the kindest man, he barely scolded me for killing the battery, the many-many times that I did. I think he realized, very early on, that he'd better teach me how to use one before I decided to teach myself. It wasn't very long before it was my responsibility to mow his (7-acre) yard and my mom's (5-acre) yard with his trusty 9n (that I always assumed, he traded 2 mules and a bushel of corn for in the 40s). I continued to mow the lawns and the lanes and the trails in the woods with the 9n for a couple of years after he passed in 98'. My lack of mechanical skills, and a good deal led me to a MF135 (AWESOME TRACTOR-she pulled numerous 4x4s out of many-a mudhole) which served me well, for the rest of my drunken youth, until I flipped it one afternoon piss drunk off of a case of Busch. That spelled the end of the 135. After the Massey died, I ended up buying a series of TSC, $1300 mowers, that only lasted about a year a-piece. That's not bad, considering that the typical homeowner that buys these things only rack up about 15-20 years a year. I was doing 140-150. That leads me to today. My JD530X was delivered today at about 11a.m. I spent most of the day mowing foot-tall grass, breaking-in the new farm-horse. I decided that I have too much yard, and am going to let some of it go back to nature, about half of it. Don't worry, I no longer drink-and-mow. I have every intention to preserve this mower for the future generations who are blessed to have so much grass to mow.
----P.S- I am a very experienced floor installer (tile, hardwood,and vinyl...backsplashes and showers too) holler at me if you have any ??????s
