Tractor Purchase

Work on the Fifty Acre Wood is going slow, the land clearing process is creeping along at a snails pace. After weeks of searching we found a fellow with a heavy duty forestry mulcher who was willing to come out and make mulch out of the 29 brush piles we have around the perimeter of the property left by the previous dozer contractor. He was going to charge somewhere in the neighborhood of $5000 to get the work done, but would not be able to start for a month.

After some consideration of timing and tired of outsourcing to people who have different schedules than myself. We decided to look into buying a tractor that would give us more horse power around the homestead and help push some of the brush piles around so we could burn them and just provide help with general cleanup and mowing.

Today we made that purchase! A 1954 Ford 800 Tractor, 45 HP with a front loader and rotary cutter (brush hog), all for $6600. I'm not sure if that's a good deal or not, with 1300 hours on the rebuilt motor, we're hoping to get a few trouble free years out of it before having to upgrade. Instead of spending the 5k on outsourcing work, we spent 6k on a machine that will help us with other work needed on the homestead.

Here's a picture of the beauty, we take delivery this Friday (09.11.15) and I can't wait to take her for a spend around her new home.