I love my little tractor…

It’s not big, but it’s mighty…

If it were any larger, it would be difficult and/or impossible to maneuver around all of the stumps and cypress knees…….(and sink holes)…

We have a front-end bucket…

We can attach a hay-spear on the front bucket to lift and move the round bales…

(I have to be careful if the bales are extra large or too fresh a cut…..and if we don’t have an attachment hooked to the PTO in the back (as a counter-balance)…..then the round bale can actually tip us over, by being too heavy in the front…….

…..that’s never a good thing…)

When I have to move the compressed alfalfa bales by using the pallet fork attachment in the back on the PTO …….

…..the opposite occurs if I keep the front bucket too high…….

…..I need to keep the bucket low so it will successfully work as a front counter-balance…..if it’s too high…..life can get very wobbly and very interesting…..very quickly…

Recently one of the main welds broke on one of the pallet fork’s knives…

It just “might” have had something to do with “someone” catching “said-knife” under an underground root and then perhaps there was a lot of lifting of the hydraulic-lift lever…….over & over…….repeatedly…….(allegedly)…….

…………………or maybe that never happened…..at all…..(ssshhhhhhhhhhhh)………………..

…………………just saying…………………

But whatever happened to that stupid fork…….it is always super difficult to lift the 900+lbs bales of compressed hay at any time…….even with two, well-welded/well-balanced forks…….

…..but, try doing it with two uneven pallet fork knives…….(!)…….

…..aaauuuggghhh…..!

…..while one knife is digging into the ground…..the other one is poking the bale in the middle and pushing it all around the front yard…….while digging big ruts in the dirt…….

We currently have donuts dug into the dirt all over the front yard from stubborn bales and an equally stubborn tractor fork operator…….

…..but I’m not naming names…….