Brush Hogging on the MF65

I’ve got a patch of land that needs some cutting done on it. There are downed trees in the fence line and in order to get to them in a few weeks I need to clear out the overgrowth. It’s a bit of a challenge to get back to that area so I’ll need to see if I can take the tractor across a creek I’ve never crossed. Hopefully the rocky soil here is a bonus for once and I don’t sink into the mud very far.

Dam It

When we bought the place there had just been a lot of work done to repair the levee. It has an amazing man made lake, and we are told there…

They just keep coming

At one point in time I’d click on the wrong link and my screen would be covered in pop-up ads. One after the other, seemingly without end. I think my…

Would make grandpa proud

The carburetor on the Massey 65 was leaking all over the place after I parked it the last outing. I guess everything is in a state of decay, just some…

We knew he wasn’t here for long

Not much accomplished on the homestead this weekend because we were taking Thomas off to college. We let him finish out his senior high school year back in KC. This…

Beds and Blocks

Much of this year has been trying to recover some of the land and building out spaces to do the things that we want to in the future. One of…

The Barn

On the far side of our new property is a barn. Previous to our ownership there were cows in the pasture that allowed them access to the barn. There were…

Outgoing Mail

We were really wondering how our cat, that we’ve had for the past 10 years as an indoor cat, would take to the change. There was an upper level deck…

Cats, cats

When we first got this property we picked up two male cats that had grown up on a farm. They had been around dogs, chickens, cows and about everything else.…

Thorny Situation

A few months ago I got a tractor off of Craigslist or Facebook Marketplace, I forget which it was. A couple thousand dollars and I have Massey 65. Made in…