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As soon as I got to Idaho two years ago, I began to lust in my heart for a 25-hp Kubota wih th 3-cyl Yanmar diesel engine, hydrostatic clutch (4 WD of course) and a front loader and backhoe plus maybe a box grader and a 6-inch augur ... WAIT A MINUTE! I have less than two acres! I can barely justify a rear-tine tiller and a brush hog to clear out the ditch.

Fact is, my neighbor has a good size 50-hp New Holland that he is happy to share with me, and I can rent a good-size tiller and brush-hog for those typical once- or twice-a-year jobs.

It's just not cost-effective for me, but if I ever win the lottery, I'm on my way to the Kubota store!! Meanwhile, I'm making do with a Husqvarna 46-in riding mower and a trailer.
 
Duncan said:
As soon as I got to Idaho two years ago, I began to lust in my heart for a 25-hp Kubota wih th 3-cyl Yanmar diesel engine, hydrostatic clutch (4 WD of course) and a front loader and backhoe plus maybe a box grader and a 6-inch augur ... WAIT A MINUTE! I have less than two acres! I can barely justify a rear-tine tiller and a brush hog to clear out the ditch.

Fact is, my neighbor has a good size 50-hp New Holland that he is happy to share with me, and I can rent a good-size tiller and brush-hog for those typical once- or twice-a-year jobs.

It's just not cost-effective for me, but if I ever win the lottery, I'm on my way to the Kubota store!! Meanwhile, I'm making do with a Husqvarna 46-in riding mower and a trailer.
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Hi Duncan.
If I were a young man (under 60) I would try hard to move to Idaho. To live on a few acres of arable land, so I could own a Kubota. And be relatively free; as close to the 'free' that Ben Franklin and his compatriots had in mind as is available in this benighted era.

Well, if I were under 60, I might feel strong enough to stay in Vermont (the land of my ancestors) and fight for truth, justice, and the Constitutions (Vermont's and the nation's).

[You can see why this isn't a 'greetings to the new member' post. Those should be cheerful. I usually am cheerful; maybe next week.]
drink buddy
 
Brother Hillman, I can understand. When I moved to Idaho in 2018, I was a hard-charging young pup of 73. I didn't know a two-string bale of alfalfa or a bag of layer pellets weighed quite so much after the third trip to the barn.
Duncan
 
Oh yeah, every bale is a little heavier. When I was a younker, I spent part of my summer vacations on Uncle Earl's farm, some days getting in the hay. He rented a baler that made round bales, ~70 pounds. He drove the team, cousin Lyle stacked the wagon, I passed them up to him. After you get in the swing of it, no big deal - if you're a healthy teenager. Uncle Earl was a great guy, but sometimes he let me get "experience". One time it was "taking away" loose hay, up in the loft. I wasn't smart enough to tie a kerchief over my nose and mouth. Yep, that was an experience.

73, eh? By the time I was 73 I had been working 'soft' jobs too long. Glad you 'grew into your work'.
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I am buying a Kubota L4701, 47 horsepower tractor, credit went though, I was worried that the word retired would stop it.
I got a front loader,Backhoe, boxblade, rotary tiller, rear rotary cutter, will get a pallet fork later.
I thought DW wife would hit the celling, but all she said was "you got a bush hog to cut my land."
However I have not got the tractor yet, the Backhoe is on back order for 6 weeks, because of C-19.
If that the worse thing C19 does to my Family, I am a blissed man!
I think the Backhoe will be best to remove the 24" stumps & dig the greenhouse, but the green house is down the road.
 
joel said:
I am buying a Kubota L4701, 47 horsepower tractor, credit went though, I was worried that the word retired would stop it.
I got a front loader,Backhoe, boxblade, rotary tiller, rear rotary cutter, will get a pallet fork later.
I thought DW wife would hit the celling, but all she said was "you got a bush hog to cut my land."
However I have not got the tractor yet, the Backhoe is on back order for 6 weeks, because of C-19.
If that the worse thing C19 does to my Family, I am a blissed man!
I think the Backhoe will be best to remove the 24" stumps & dig the greenhouse, but the green house is down the road.
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You have a vision, and a plan. Those are desirable things to have, and reading of them calls up memories of a Best Friend who had those things. He was diagnosed with a non-Hodgkins lymphoma, a kind for which there was no cure, and told he had no more than 5 more years. That knowledge didn't take him down; he just seemed to have more expensive visions, requiring things like a Kubota tractor and one of those sawmills-on-wheels, purchased with longterm loans.
 
We are in the process of cleaning up our 5th wheel that we were living in before finishing the house. We paid cash for that. I think we can get 7 or 8 k for it and pay cash for the tractor. I have really been looking at the Yanmars they only have 2 or 400 hours on most of them around here. I have done some research about which models are best and have good parts availability.
 
When I was treated for Afib, the doctor thought I may have a non-Hodgkins lymphoma & it took two weeks for the test to return.
I did not have a non-Hodgkins lymphoma , I have sarcodsis. Sarcodsis surpress the immune system, so I took steroids to surpress the sarcodsis. Doctor say it it should stay surpressed without steroids. I want a sawmill, but can not justify the cost for only 20 or so timber trees.
 
joel said:
When I was treated for Afib, the doctor thought I may have a non-Hodgkins lymphoma & it took two weeks for the test to return.
I did not have a non-Hodgkins lymphoma , I have sarcodsis. Sarcodsis surpress the immune system, so I took steroids to surpress the sarcodsis. Doctor say it it should stay surpressed without steroids. I want a sawmill, but can not justify the cost for only 20 or so timber trees.
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My friend had plans to do sawmill jobs 'onsite' for people. Turned out he didn't have enough time left for that to happen, but he thought it was possible.
 
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