Tractor addiction - wife abandonment - Guilt

RedRocker · May 24, 2005

( I feel the guilt, I was also minding my own business, reading the classified add and there it was a, posthole digger for sale by a local grape farmer, It was calling too me! 12" auger and a 24" auger all for $200 bucks , I was outta control ,phone in hand before I knew it I was driving home when" I came to" in a "cold sweat" OH GREAT NOT AGAIN... somebody please HELP........... /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif )

Nasty my friend, I can help you on this one. Send that baby to me and I'll give you your money back!! Please don't thank me, I'm here to help a brother. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Nasty135 · May 24, 2005

Big Brother RED, Why you selfless soul ,So willing to bare the burden of a fellow tractorholic's plight you should be nominated for saint HOOD..... /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

shoppintractors · May 24, 2005

I was hoping there may be some good doctors to help me with this sudden addiction.

Now, where's docheb when you need him? /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

Don

GeneD14 · May 24, 2005

I too am an addict. A few years ago I was up to 8 tractors at one time. My nice wife was my enabler. I started with an old rusty Farmall Cub, then a JD, and several AC's. Finally to get a fix I needed a new Kubota with a cab and loader.
I don't see any end in sight.

ByronBob · May 24, 2005

Ha!!! I beat you. Have 62.5 hours on mine and I've had it 14 months. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

rcrcomputing · May 24, 2005

( Ha!!! I beat you. Have 62.5 hours on mine and I've had it 14 months. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif )

You realize that's like one hour a week. What's wrong with you?

rcrcomputing · May 25, 2005

(
You realize that's like one hour a week. What's wrong with you? )

Umm, you know I'm kidding..

RedRocker · May 25, 2005

( Big Brother RED, Why you selfless soul ,So willing to bare the burden of a fellow tractorholic's plight you should be nominated for saint HOOD..... /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
)

OUCH!, I hurt myself patting my own back. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Yes I know, Mother Teresa and I used to hang out together.
Anything I can do to help, just let me know. BTW, I'll need to keep it at your house to stay out of trouble at home. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

edski · May 25, 2005

( I didn't think of the cult aspect until
edski's statement...<snip> )
Nor had I.

But if it is a cult, we could shave our heads except for ponytails...if we had hair. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

Guess I'll just stick with a ball cap.

CajunRider · May 25, 2005

I am proud to say I am not a tractorholic. However, I am up in age and I recently develop tractoritis. It started when I tripped on a DK45. Now my left knee is hurting from the strain of stepping on the clutch. Adding to all that pain is my migraine implements. They just keep coming back to my head and call for me.

Moon · May 25, 2005

( Will the US government help me afford the withdrawel medicines?
)

Since the US gov (medicade) pays for viagra for released ****** offenders I'd guess you have a GREAT chance of getting something prescribed .....if the wife keeps up the 'honey, I'm getting naked" comments maybe viagra would be just the ticket.

ByronBob · May 25, 2005

It only snows in the winter? I don't mow much with it yet. The old Craftsman does ok and I figure the less I use it, the longer it will last.

RedRocker · May 25, 2005

( I figure the less I use it, the longer it will last. )

Oh man, that's a horrible philosophy, think about it. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Indydirtfarmer · May 25, 2005

( ( I figure the less I use it, the longer it will last. )

Oh man, that's a horrible philosophy, think about it. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif )

But it describes my "bachelor years" better than anything I've ever heard......

RedRocker · May 25, 2005

I hear ya on the bachelor years. At my age it's "use it or lose it"!!

rcrcomputing · Jul 20, 2008

JoeinTX said:
I'm afraid Willman is right.....

"Yes, tractor addiction is legal, but it dont stop there!
Its the new implement fixes that'll get ya.
The smell of new paint on cold steel, oh my.
Trying to get that new piece of equipment in the barn before the wife comes home.
Drooling over the rotary cutter brochures.
Scrounging for money for the next new attachment.
Then you'll need a bigger barn, need more land....
its a visious cycle!.."

The tractor is simply the "gateway".....the implements are the real addiction.

Just one more tool to make us money or save us time. Just one more peripheral item, like a hydraulic cylinder or a coupling, to make things run a little smoother. Just one more paying job and it'll be all better...yes, yes, yes.

Before you know it, you're fibbing to the family about where you've been and what you've done with your money. You're calling in sick to work and making excuses to stay home. You're time away is pure agony and it's all you think about, yet your time alone is pure joy.

Yes, you are now a member of the "victim society" in this country and deservedly so. You were ignorant of the addictive nature of this blatantly legal product we know as tractors. You were hoodwinking by sharp tongued capitalists into squandering your hard-earned money on such trappings....."easy financing, nothing down, low interest"...yeah, we've all heard the pitch.

Yes sir, you need to contact your local ACLU, the nearest branch office of the American Worker's Party, the Sierra Club, N.O.W., and the Kennedy family in order to establish your victimhood and begin the awareness campaign reaching out to all of those like you who are afflicted (but just don't know it) with "tractorholism."

I feel your pain, brother.....

Oh lord! Three years later and I find this thread again while looking for a picture I'd posted of my toothbar! And it's all so true! My fuel bowl is toast and this weekend totally sucks with withdrawals.. My wife still calls for supper at least 5 minutes before it's actually ready!! Almost 300 hours now..

Rara Avis · Jul 20, 2008

rcrcomputing said:
Oh lord! Three years later and I find this thread again while looking for a picture I'd posted of my toothbar! And it's all so true! My fuel bowl is toast and this weekend totally sucks with withdrawals.. My wife still calls for supper at least 5 minutes before it's actually ready!! Almost 300 hours now..

You never took the proper treatment...ADD at least ONE MORE tractor to the mix...one breaks...NO WITHDRAWAL...

sixdogs · Jul 20, 2008

Well, my wife used to complain but at least she knows where I am---in the barn. Therefore, my one tractor has become four while others have come and gone over the years. She must figure it's a small price to pay for wedded bliss.
On supper, she has long since given up and we have evolved into the nomadic meal plan so popular in the rural West.

Separately, look at all the posters that have come and gone. What happened? Where did they go? Does this fate await us all?

jas67 · Jul 20, 2008

PBinWA said:
Henro is right. I'm probably going to get kicked off the TBN for admitting my low hour meter count.

You better think of getting a vasectomy. My two kids eat up way too much of my time. I'd probably have over 200 hours on my tractor by now if I didn't have small children that needed attention.

I'll second that. I'm a new tractor addict, with only 22 hrs in 5 weeks (not too bad, IMHO, considering I only put 25 hrs on my ZTR laster year mowing my little 1 acre property).

I have only one child (3 1/2), and I lose a lot of free time as a result -- esp. considering my wife works every third weekend. Unless I pay for a baby sitter, no tractor time for me on those weekends. I got up early, to try to sneak in loading my new turf tires with WWF this morning, and only got one done before the little tot woke up demanding 100% of my attention.

jas67 · Jul 20, 2008

Also, you'll note that the sign of a true tractorhaulic, is still cruising craigslist and ebay for tractors after buying 2 tractors and a lawn tractor in the space of 2 months.

I purchased the first B7100 in mid may, the G1800S (4-wheel steer lawn tractor), and then the B7100HST two weeks ago. Yes, my wife thinks I'm crazy.

In my own defense, the first B7100 is up for sale (it is gear-drive, after 20 hrs, I wanted an HST).