Hi my name is Bowman and I'm a young man with an old tractor problem. I split and sold wood for couple years to save for my first tractor...I don't know how I lived without a tractor looking back. We bought our house on 3 acres in 2011 and I had the neighbor plow over about 1/6th of an acre so I could get a garden going. The first 2 years I worked that land entirely by hand, raised beds, lots of blisters. Finally had enough firewood money to buy a tractor and after a lot of research, torn between an 8n, To-35, or MF35, I settled on a Massey Ferguson MF35 gas. It's a great all around tractor and I've been very happy with it, the first time I used it to build my garden I couldn't stop laughing because I disced it up, hilled the beds, and planted the entire thing in a weekend, over 250 plants, not including seed sowing. Typically that would have taken me 2-3 weeks of working weekends and evening to get the garden in.
I started buying 3 point equipment in bulk with a local ad and whatever I didn't need or thought I could make decent money on, I sold so I could by more 3 pt equipment. Now I'm buying, fixing, and selling tractors and a fair amount of 3 pt equipment so I can by more tractors and equipment that I need. Currently own a MF35, MF50 w/loader, Kubota B2710 w/loader, 1946 John Deere A, 1950 Farmall Super A, 1953 Farmall Super A, and McCormick International Cub Lo Boy and probably 20 implements to do anything I want. I've become obsessed with tractors! They help me get so much heavy and labor intensive work done with ease. The old tractors (50's-early 80's) are by far my favorite, super simple, strong, reliable, pretty easy to repair, a lot less to break and go wrong.