Hi Erika! Good to see you. That’s actually a large tractor. But not as big as some of the monsters in this neighborhood. 😀
Gosh, yes Chuck – when I said “small” I was thinking of the massive combines you see on the fields these days! The guy who helps out in our garden each week collects pre-WW2 vintage Massey Fergusons – he has about a dozen of them, which together couldn’t do in a day what one of the new machines can do in an hour!
I should have known. :dunce: How easily we misunderstand. Your point is well taken. My tractor is even smaller than the one in the picture, but it does what I need to do. I remember the machinery of my youth. Combines that had a 4 to 6-ft cut. And the cutter bar was raised and lowered by hand. I remember riding on the combine and tying and stacking the sacks as they were filled. What a difference. 😯
Ah, those were the days, huh?! I even have a vague memory of playing “house” inside stacked hay bales as a small child :angel:
Wishing you and yours a great Thanksgiving! Erika x
I grew up on a farm, I remember those days!
That’s the neighbor “mowing” my lower lawn. Full story on Friday.
Is that down in your soggy bottom? He sure is resourceful!
Yes it is. :up: On that Saturday in August when we met on the road, I had just talked with him about doing that. It saved me time, labor and diesel fuel by not mowing down there this summer. :cheer: He also made hay from the other neighbor across the road from him.
They’ve been doing some of that around where I live too.
Have a great day!
Hay is expensive and the neighbor takes care of a couple of acres of my lower lawn. His cattle eat and I save time and $$. Win – Win.
Great to see a small tractor in use, Chuck! Erika’s Wordless Wednesday
Hi Erika! Good to see you. That’s actually a large tractor. But not as big as some of the monsters in this neighborhood. 😀
Gosh, yes Chuck – when I said “small” I was thinking of the massive combines you see on the fields these days! The guy who helps out in our garden each week collects pre-WW2 vintage Massey Fergusons – he has about a dozen of them, which together couldn’t do in a day what one of the new machines can do in an hour!
I should have known. :dunce: How easily we misunderstand. Your point is well taken. My tractor is even smaller than the one in the picture, but it does what I need to do. I remember the machinery of my youth. Combines that had a 4 to 6-ft cut. And the cutter bar was raised and lowered by hand. I remember riding on the combine and tying and stacking the sacks as they were filled. What a difference. 😯
Ah, those were the days, huh?! I even have a vague memory of playing “house” inside stacked hay bales as a small child :angel:
Wishing you and yours a great Thanksgiving! Erika x
I grew up on a farm, I remember those days!
That’s the neighbor “mowing” my lower lawn. Full story on Friday.
Is that down in your soggy bottom? He sure is resourceful!
Yes it is. :up: On that Saturday in August when we met on the road, I had just talked with him about doing that. It saved me time, labor and diesel fuel by not mowing down there this summer. :cheer: He also made hay from the other neighbor across the road from him.