Dave I love my little Ford Ferguson, almost like an 8N, and bought it used in 1975. It has a bucket and grader I keep on it all the time. I also have a two bottom plow, disk, bush hog and I used to have a vertical hydraulic wood splitter. Kind of like a Swiss army knife, it has almost everything.
I used to mow around the pond with a DR electric start stinger on wheels but later I decided just to have a natural pond. So now I mow one walking strip around the pond. That takes about two minutes and makes my life a lot easier. But I used to mow around every young tree I planted in the 5� acres surrounding the pond with a riding mower, and I mulched each and every young tree with semi truck loads of tree mulching my tree surgeon neighbor would give me. As I think back now I have no idea how I could have done all that work.
