Your Equipment

FarmerChick · #1 01/06/10, 11:14 PM

What do you own? What is your most prized equipment that saves work for you? We maintain our mile long dirt road to our barns.

just wondering what is out there

We have an income farm so I have 3 big tractors, 1 medium size, 1 small tractor, bush hog equipement, plows, disc, tractor rototiller, hand rototillers, hydraulic dump trailer, hay wagons, Bobcat, front end loader, road scrape, backhoe, dump truck, hay conveyers (love these when stacking..lol), square baler, round baler---heavy duty trucks, horse trailer, goat trailer, hog trailer, cattle trailer.

that is it for us.

Anyone else loaded with farm equipment?

Jerngen · #2 01/07/10, 12:06 AM

I have a couple shovels, a narrow spade, a couple hoes, various rakes, a long handled ax, some saws, a wheelbarrow, and a dogged determination. I may be missing a few other pieces of equipment but that's most all of it.

(Oh, and a '99 Dodge Grand Caravan of haulin stuff)

Edited: I do have a push lawn mower and an old fashioned weed whacker too.

hoggie · #3 01/07/10, 12:17 AM

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Originally Posted by Jerngen

I have a couple shovels, a narrow spade, a couple hoes, various rakes, a long handled ax, some saws, a wheelbarrow, and a dogged determination. I may be missing a few other pieces of equipment but that's most all of it.

(Oh, and a '99 Dodge Grand Caravan of haulin stuff)

LOL That's about me too - except I need a new wheelbarrow as mine died

Ravenlost · #4 01/07/10, 12:49 AM

We also maintain our half mile dirt drive and the Mahindra tractor with front end loader, the box blade and the bush hog come in very handy!

The two riding mowers help keep the yard mowed (several acres) and the push mower comes in handy too.

Windy in Kansas · #5 01/07/10, 01:23 AM

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Originally Posted by FarmerChick

What do you own?

Anyone else loaded with farm equipment?

When I farmed on a large scale I did without a lot of things that I could have used. When I sold out and eventually bought a small acreage and had a good job I treated myself to about all of the toys a person could want.

Tractor with quick attach front end loader.
Back blade, box blade, rotary mower, post hole digger, cement mixer, broadcast fertilizer/seeder spreader, gin pole, roto-tiller, middle buster, large lister bottom for deeper furrowing, wire roller, rotary hoe, spike toothed harrow, spring toothed harrow, sweeps, one way, 3 pt. disc, grain drill, 3 row Dempster planter, 2 row Stanhay planter, several cultivators 1 row to multi row, Gleaner combine, truck, pickup, 16 foot tandem trailer, 3 X 5 trailer, 4 X 8 trailer, sprayers, hiller, front bale spike, rear bale fork, 3 pt. quick hitch and ??

What I would like to have next is a landscape rake and maybe a bedder and a poly layer, then a transplanter and poly planter would be nice too. Top of the list is also an Allis Chalmers model G cultivating tractor. Doubt that will happen as there are so few in the area, maybe even in the state.

Not for the tractor but I also have a Bolens Ridemaster garden tractor.
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A BCS two wheeled tractor with tiller attachment. A chipper shredder.

Yup, I've got a lot of boy toys.

Mrs. Homesteader · #6 01/07/10, 04:52 AM

We have an old David Brown tractor, a hand rototiller and hand tools. There are 2 things that we would love to have and would be put to good use. One is a skid steer. This would be used in so many ways, but one of the biggest is to deal with the large barn clean outs. The other thing would be a golf cart or Gator type cart. This would be used to get hay, and to haul feed and water to the pastured poultry in the summer.

Shagbarkmtcatle · #7 01/07/10, 05:40 AM

Two John Deere tractors a6415 & a 820, a skid-steer, a Kubota tractor, it seems like a million trailers, from stock ones to dump trailers to flat beds. A lot of trucks, it looks like a used car lot around here. Besides farming, we are plumbers so we have work vans and use the equipement back and forth for both businesses. Two rakes, a used Ford pick up. One of the boys can rake hay with that since we don't have enough tractors, a round and a square baler, and I don't know what all. All I want is a baler with a kicker, I'm tired of being the kicker. For crying out loud I am getting old.
Two four-wheelers, a hay elevator, love that.

Now, dh wants a front end loader, everyone else has one don't they!

And he needs a storage building for the equipment, a BIG one

Mutti · #8 01/07/10, 05:57 AM

Kubota tractor, ancient manure spreader,hay rakes,bushhog,sickle bar mower,and a rotary tiller for the tractor. DH wants a hay baler...I like it better when the neighbor comes and does it and puts it in the barn! The best thing we ever got it our log splitter...now that the kids are all gone it was way too much for Pa to do the log truck load of firewood we buy each summer without one. We also have a Troy-Bilt tiller and several battered Garden Way carts that are used daily. Boy,stuff accumulates but it is all stuff we do use. DEE

FarmerChick · #9 01/07/10, 06:34 AM

It is interesting to hear what people have and WANT.....lol

Most of our tractors extra are older. Tony wants to sell a few and buy that "one good one"--LOL

Alot of our stuff was bought by his Dad and since he is older just turned over all the equip to us. I don't know how anyone can actually afford to buy this stuff new...the prices are insanity. He is our farm hand. It keeps him busy and he enjoys it and boy, without his help we would be in trouble.

my wish list now is a Gator or something like that. and 4 wheelers but at this point I can't afford them....some day!

#10 01/07/10, 08:17 AM

My latest tractor toy was one of those Jinma wood chippers. It does real good on the 40 HP Deere, but will stall on the 8N with a piece of wood over 3 inches or so. My favorite is an auger (post hole driller) Digging a 3 ft deep post hole while sitting on a tractor is the way to go. Plows, cultivators, etc scattered all around. I like my front end loader, but its way too heavy and takes away from the traction of the back tires, so it's usually sitting. I've seen a few backhoe attachments around, one comes up cheap enough, it'll be mine.

firegirl969 · #11 01/07/10, 10:15 AM

Our most useful is the AC D17 with the front bucket that DH bought from a fellow HT'er. He uses it for lots and lots of things. We also use the tiller a great deal. We have a little garden wagon that we carry wood with, that I sit on a pillow on to weed the beds, and that we carry various other items around the farm with. We pull hit with our hands, with a rope attached to the handle, it is used more than anything else around. We found it in the woods and pumped up the tires making it not only real useful, but the cheapest tool around. That is about all we have except hand tools.

salmonslayer · #12 01/07/10, 10:34 AM

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I also have a Bolens Ridemaster garden tractor.

Now that is very cool!

Homesteadwi5 · #13 01/07/10, 10:35 AM

We arent loaded with farm equip. but do have a New Holland 40h.p with loader brush hog 5ft rototiller disc 2 bottom plow,and a ford 2N with back blade.John deere backhoe with loader and a pettibone super4 4x4x4 forklift.

DaleK · #14 01/07/10, 12:20 PM

Ummm three MFWD tractors, 124hp with duals, 115hp, and 90 hp with a loader. 15' no-till drill. 6 row no-till corn planter. 22' disk, 20' cultivator, 20' harrows. 15' packer. 10' chisel plow. 5x16 plow.500 gallon, 45' sprayer. 12' discbine. 24' V-rake. Windrow inverter. Round baler. Tubeline bale wrapper. 3 bale wagons. 2 manure spreaders. 14' rock rake. Vertical TMR mixer. Grain grinder/mixer. That's about it, probably forgot a few little things.

Chuck R. · #15 01/07/10, 12:56 PM

Zero farm income other than what a tenant farmer pays us. Besides mowing about the only thing I use equipment for is cutting wood and working my deer food plots. We’ve got:

09 Kubota L4400 (45HP) with Loader, 6.5 ft disk, drag harrow, 3pt spreader, Carry All, back blade, 6 Ft Brush hog, and ballast box. Also have a 5x8 trailer that I use behind the tractor for wood.

What I really want is a good 2 bottom plow so I can put in another plot this spring and a pumpkin patch for the kids.

Chuck

TRAILRIDER · #16 01/07/10, 02:43 PM

There it is. That's my 1964 Massey Ferguson 165. Still runs great. I wish I had the money to spend to fix her up. I only do a little on 10 acres but she really comes in handy. And costs almost nothing in upkeep. Except tires...tires are expensive!

TRAILRIDER · #17 01/07/10, 02:46 PM

It wouldn't pay me to purchase these but I would love to have a hay mower, tetter and square baler. And a manure spreader too. Okay maybe a bush hog. Oh well...

tnokie · #18 01/07/10, 03:40 PM

I thought for sure this was going to be a thread about Personal hygiene!lol Been reading to many of Oggie's threads!

I apolegise Farmer Chick,but its super cold and snowy and been stuck in the house to long! Gotta laugh at the little things,even if you have to make them up!

**fordson major** · #19 01/07/10, 05:31 PM

most used and most missed when broken? our skidsteer !! have various other tractors and equipment (think tilling too harvest!) but above and beyond that skid steer gets worked the most!!!

||Downhome|| · #20 01/07/10, 05:34 PM

thats a pretty personal question there. lol