That is the same question Rod was asking himself since we bought our new place. So last month Rod went down the road to visit the tractor guy. We have this neighbour who has what looks to be a huge junk yard but is really a tractor sales and service. There are all kinds of left over pieces of farm equipment all over his yard looking for a home. Piles of this and that all over and some where in the midst of all that there it was - the Merrill's new (old) tractor. An older model (1968-1970?) Massey Ferguson with a front end loader.
So the tractor is purchased but where is it? Everyday for 2 weeks Rod would hurry home from work hoping his tractor would be sitting on the driveway, and every day he would be disappointed. Then last Sunday as we were just getting ready to put dinner on the table we hear the driveway sensor buzz and the dog starts barking a the door. I open it up to see a flatbed truck in the driveway and a tractor sitting on top. WAHOO, the tractor has arrived.
Dinner is delayed as Rod goes out to watch his tractor being unloaded. I had to MAKE him come in for dinner before he could play with it. As soon as dinner was over everyone got up from the table (Brock and Jenna, Amber, Josh and girls visiting) and headed out to check out the new toy. Talia even had her first lesson in driving the tractor.
Since then Rod has used the tractor to dump the dirt out of the trailer and spread it around in the field and to pull the trailer up to the house. We will be using it to clean out an old pasture that has scraps of fencing and other metal junk. We hope to find a mower for it to help clear the trail from the house to old trail behind the property. Maybe even to cut the grass in the field and make our own hay bales. Who knows? Now that Rod has his tractor he is thinking of all kinds of uses for it.
This place is slowly starting to look like a farm. What should we buy next? hmmm?
plane tickets for the Hatch's to come visit the Merrill family farm!!!!!!
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