These are some of the accoutrements of farming currently parked on our acreage. There are two huge tractors, one with a baler, one pulling a monstrous gooseneck trailer. Three smaller tractors, one with a trailer, one with a hay tether and one with a rake. Another with a rake went home and yesterday there were two sickle bar mowers attached to two tractors, maybe two of these, maybe different ones and none of them are ours. I guess it is too much trouble to trade out the attachments on these beasts, I know our brush hog is a bear to put on and take off, so they just keep adding tractors to put all of the attachments on. Not all of these tractors belong to the neighbor who is doing our haying, the one pulling the baler belongs to his neighbor, but he maintains it and gets to use it. One or two belong to his uncle who raised him and lives on the same farm.
Our little tractor and brush hog mowed the 5 or 6 acres we keep groomed as a lawn today, hauled a load of scrapwood to the burn pile, moved a load of compost to a different area of the garden to start 2 half barrels of potato starts and made this work much easier on me than if I had to do it all with a push mower and wheelbarrow.
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