05-27-2018, 02:49 PM
Where I am there's a co-op of farmers harvest time and planting time that rent equipment. My fields and pastures are small given the rocky nature of my environs, but I have a bit of a lot of them. I actually cut hay and harvest corn or beans on horse-drawn equipment with a neighbor who owns mules, just for fun. Most of my land that is not pasture is leased out to a corporate farm. I have an 8n Ford tractor I use for odd jobs here, but repair is costly so it sees little use. Equipment depends also on your individual field size. Mine are one to five acres each for the most part, so huge equipment is use-less here. The larger fields are easily done with rented equipment rather than buy one machine that will be used twice a year for one or two days.
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ps- a hobby of mine is rebuilding old horse equipment btw.
