wakeshredder
Member
Hello. As the title says, I am joining the group from unincorporated Platte County, MO. Actually almost in Parkville, MO but just outside the lines on 4.5 acres of hilly heaven. My wife and I bought our property here after spending 5 years on a small lake, Houston Lake, MO. The lake house was fun for our time, but we were ready for some privacy and land. With our transition has come the need manage our much larger lot. It's a half wooded, half green grass hilly plat. Our home is an earth contact with a passive solar setup. We get as much of our heat as we can in the winter by burning timber found here. We have an old wood barn with a dirt floor, built along the hill, leaving it much shorter in the rear of the building. But, it affords me some cover for our toys. We have an old Harley Davidson golf cart and a slew of mopeds, scooters, bicycles and even a motorcycle. We have 94' Chevy 1500 standard cab 2WD for the home improvement store runs. My brother gifted us his Snapper lawn tractor when we moved in. It is every bit a big boy. It's got a 60" deck and is larger in body than our recently acquired Massey Ferguson GC1720 TLB. Which brings me to that. We just got the Massey after the first of the year. It has been completely mucky and cold out since it delivered, so short of a few loads of wood shuffled around, it is just sitting there. This has got the gears going in my mind as to all the potential projects we can use the tractor for. That is, after all, the official reason for getting the machine. I hope to use this site to gather knowledge and opinions from the many fine users and their expansive array of experience. I will always offer up my thoughts in return, hopefully to the benefit of others. It's a pleasure to meet you Tractorbynet.com friends!
