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larry@stinescorner · May 11, 2016

Brown Swiss wants to see or hear about your favorite, or handiest,or whatever thing on the farm....../////next weeks feature is a request from JB GOATS..He would like to see or hear about simple tractor sheds or lean tos

Bob Harvey · May 11, 2016

Easy. The shop 'Beverage' fridge ! ;^)

Ray · May 11, 2016

This lift is probably the handiest thing I have on the farm. Me and ladders don't get along. Spent most of today 20 ft in the air installing a new stainless chimney for my shop furnace. I always have a loose piece of tin on the barn roof, or one of my pole lights going out to fix.

gtractorfan · May 11, 2016

Two simple ideas. We changed the door handles on the doors to the garage to the lever kind. This way when you have your hands full you can still open doors - with your elbow or wrist. Also I made several easily portable stands for working on smaller projects. I often use them outside. Otherwise I have one by the door where it's convenient to put things. One day I looked at my pile of shoes and the empty space on the stand and decided to put shelves on the post.

David from Kansas · May 11, 2016

Don't have a picture, but everyone knows what a ATV (4-wheeler) looks like. I have a Polaris with EPS and I use it almost daily, checking cattle, checking fences, fixing fence, taking mineral and salt to the feeders. Just don't know what I would do without it. Very handy. And, I have a small 2-wheel trailer to haul it to some of the pastures I have which are several miles from the farm. Oh, I also have a 25 gallon sprayer I mount on it in the summer to spray fence rows, etc., and around the farm.

rick1 · May 11, 2016

my log arch. the back blade with a 10000 lb winch and last my kawasaki mule diesel with power dump bed.
RICK

larry@stinescorner · May 11, 2016

The Mule that dumps,,another thing I sure would like to have...

Richard G. · May 11, 2016

Larry, I am the handiest thing on the farm. LOL
Richard in NW SC

Brown Swiss · May 11, 2016

If I have a favorite thing on the farm it would be this Brown Swiss cow, was the first Swiss I bought, she is getting old, next to that would be Massey tractors and equipment, pic of the new comer to the family this spring a 399, and last the handiest is the Dynamint salve, it helps put more milk in the tank.

Southern Ray · May 11, 2016

My tri-pod hoist and come-a-longs.
I single handily hoist, build, and mount cultivators and plow with my tri-pod cable hoist and two come-a-longs.
I have hoisted and set heavy corner and gate posts with the hoist.
I have even hoisted and set concrete culvert pipe with the hoist.
It is made of three aluminum tubes and has a one ton cable hoist.

larry@stinescorner · May 11, 2016

Potato canning king too!!

Richard G. · May 11, 2016

Yup, Thanks.

tracto-man · May 11, 2016

Probably this old simplicity.

Cory Schmidt · May 11, 2016

handiest would be the skid steer as power wheel barrow, platform, hoist... It is also the most abused(once bought and in it will be onto number 5(?) engine, along with several axels and drive motors)

Besides the barn my favorite thing on the farm is the 706(the "Horse"), just like that tractor for some reason (more so after we got the deere)

Grampy · May 11, 2016

I have to 'second' that Bob !!!

Grampy · May 11, 2016

Without a doubt ---poor man's service truck.

notjustair · May 11, 2016

This Mitsubishi mini truck is amazing. I bought the ugliest one I could find so I wouldn't feel bad about scratching it all up. I couldn't live without it. I have a couple of gators but this thing is far more powerful with only a two cylinder engine. It will pull a hay wagon with five round bales through the muddy lot and hooks up easy behind a tractor and implement to get home from the field.

I like the gators for fencing since getting in and out isn't the easiest being 6'4" and all. In the winter or muddy weather the gators get parked and this gets run non-stop. Even in the summer there isn't a day that it doesn't get run.

I'm already planning my next one - I have to have a tilt bed. I wasn't willing to spend the money for it not knowing how much I would use it. Fuel injection may be nice, but this carbureted engine runs super smooth and has lots of power. I will probably get rid of one gator when I buy a new one and relegate this one to beater status although I really don't hold back now. I haven't spent a dime on it but need new tires this summer. I'm not sure what I ever did without the ugly thing.

JayinNY · May 11, 2016

I think my favorite is my little Ford 1720, it runs my wood splitter, teds hay, pulls hay wagons and does landscape jobs, along with many other things. It's a 1994 model with only 1368 hours on it! Great little tractor.

Steve@Advance · May 11, 2016

Not very big, not expensive, not impressive, but it's by far the most used thing I own!

http://www.wristwatch.com/products/victorinox-swiss-army-electrician-7-function-pocket-knife-53781?variant=11508849670

larry@stinescorner · May 11, 2016

If you dont mind me asking how much does one of those cost?

FBH44 · May 12, 2016

Tracto-Man; That's precisely and exactly what I just did with half of Pop's old spring tooth harrow and my Troy-Bilt. Made a harrow that sorta makes for a sorta-plow. Works great, I added lots of weight and railroad rail and a T-posts for weight. Works great.

sms · May 12, 2016

I don't farm I'm a builder and have the sawmill so this old beast is handy.

Blackhole49 · May 12, 2016

Wife comes in a close second.

Blackhole49 · May 12, 2016

Oops.

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