I washed my tractor today and was so proud of it and what a wonderful job I did I took a picture of it. This is the little tractor I bought last winter. I use it for grinding feed, speading manure, forklift work, and hauling grain from the cribs. It only has 89 hp but is fun to drive. It is very user friendly. With ac, stereo, air ride seat, and shuttle shifting its heaven.
This is what you see looking ahead. It had digital readout on the speed, rpm, diesel level, and coolant temp. At nine oclock, on the steering wheel, you see a little lever. That lever is for the turn signals and horn. Above that is another lever and with that one you change direction. You push in the clutch and simply slide the lever up, to go forward, or down, to go backwards. It moves easier than the shifter on your car and no grinding gears.
These levers contol the speed of the tractor, hitch, and valves. The two toward the front are for gears. The right one you need to clutch for but the left or near one you simply push forward to go faster. The one with the red knob is throttle or engine rpm. The further ahead it is the faster you go or the motor revs. The next two are for hydraulic valves. These can lift wagons or run orbital motors. The yellow knobed lever is for the pto. This tractor does alot of pto work which racks up the hours but doesn't get anywhere. All the buttons and knobs and levers behind that are for the hitch. One nice thing about this tractor is the hitch can be raised or lowered outside. This system takes a little to get used to but is nice once you understand it all.
This is our Four wheel drive tractor. This is one fun puppy to drive. It feels like you are driving on a rail. It is the biggest tractor we own. Here I have it hooked up to an anhydrous bar. Anhydrous is a fertilizer that provides nitrogen to the plants. It is kinda dangerous to work with as is any ammonia. This toolbar had 17 knives at a spacing of 30 inches and I tell you it really gets over the ground. We rent this machine in the fall and the NH3 (anhydrous) comes in tanks which are pulled behind.
This is our farm. This photo was taken just this spring. As you can tell it was a little wet. You can also see my Dad standing in the machine shed. Some of our equipment is sitting outside so we must have been waiting for it to dry up. When we first moved out here, in 1988, Bernita and I lived in the trailer. Then, after we had the boys, Mom wanted us to move into the house. The motorhome is Dad's. He winters in Arizona and takes some summer trips in it. The original plan was for them to start traveling this year in it but cancer had other plans for Mom.
This is just a picture of some of our little pigs. I'd say these little oinkers are about two weeks old. At this stage everybody says they are so cute. They look the cutest to me as they walk across the scale when I sell them.lol
Me and the family.
Here are some pictures taken on our boat. The first one is me!! We are just driving around enjoying the lake. The second is our boys in the cuddy. Its not real big but tonight will be the second time we have spent the night in it. It gets cold on the water really fast at night. Hope we remember blankets this time.
This is the fish I told you all about. It measures 28 inches. According to my scale it was about 5lbs but the man who mounted it said it weighed more than that on his. So we'll take his word for it, of course. You know how those fish stories go!!
We went to a mans house the other day and he had three live cougars. I had this shot taken of me and one of his females. These seemed very friendly and playful, but he told us they were quite rough if you entered their cages. We used the cat to get them to come close while Laura took the shot. This was very interesting morning with this man as he showed us all his exotic pets. He also had wolves, llamas, bobcats, fox, and several smaller animals. I personally enjoyed the cougars the most. We went to buy a dead cougar, that he put down because it was too mean, and he couldn't take the risk of it hurting someone. What you ask did we want with a dead cougar? Well, I have a friend who is a taxidermist. He plans to mount it and enter it in a show this next April. When he is done I hope to post a picture of it here on my site.
Here is the horse I have talking about. She is my winter project. So far so good and it has been a hoot. She is owned by a lady that works with my brother. She is bred but not papered. She stands about 14.2 and is named "Babe."
