cultivating options

I am almost ready to fork over some hard earned cash for a new equipment regime for the coming season. I sold the big old Massey 165 last fall that has served me well until now; she had done the big bulky work on the new (to me) farm (plowing and disking, ditching, hauling, pounding posts; it is too big and heavy for me and the garden now. I also needed the cash.

I am still mulling over the best of three options but am coming very close to this one:


The metal beast not the item beside her...

The other options: The BCS, which I wrote about here
is tempting as I am experienced with it, but is too expensive (with all the required new implements):













and B) a horse and implements
which is unrealistic for a seasonal, aging and inexperienced horsewoman, even though I pine to work that way and have been secretly collecting equipment to one day farm with the steam of a 4 legged companion. It is, I must conceed, for another sweet day.


The farmall super A I have my eye on is affordable and comes with a parts tractor, a bellymount to weeding equipment I like to use in a vegetable field and has a 3 point kit on the back that may take my tiller. The implements are available and relatively affordable and I am handy with a welder. The other postive is horse equipment can be modified for the farmall and vice versa.