[john and helen]

as above..who has what..being of the male species..big boys toys are a must.... 
i have told helen without any doubts, we will need a quad ..she thinks a small tractor would be better..i think both would be the best option..not new ones...

what do you use around the SH ?

[RUSTYME]

My feet !

[lachlanandmarcus]

We have an elderly 75hp tractor, very useful, but in winter without doubt the most useful thing is the equally ancient and much despised by proper farm workers, ancient diesel 6 wheeled polaris quad (or should that be hex? :-)) it has a truck back and so I can carry out bales of hay, water and feed to all the animals. Only the deepest snow defeats it. It is slow, no good for rounding up beasts but we can run it on our red diesel so no need to fill up with jerry cans.


In truth with 40 acres and several species and an exposed location, we need both the tractor and the quad.


Whether we need the JCB OH has his eye on I'm not sure.....

[plumseverywhere]

same as Russ  oh and a wheelbarrow for plum harvesting...several journeys but keeps us fit....

[happygolucky]

Not got a small holding but who knows   anyway, what I really really want is one of those little carts to pull, then I can pull logs, veg, tools etc around all day and steve can pull me when I get tired

[HesterF]

We have a compact tractor & trailer. No need for a quad although if we had bigger livestock we might - probably quicker than having to hook up the trailer. We mostly use ours for mowing - virtually all of our eight acres is mown grassland - not quite lawn like but we do our best. We have the option for a front loader and the three point connection at the back for ploughs etc. if we need them (have considered both already). Certainly don't need anything to get around on and personally I tend to just use the wheel barrow except when mowing but husband likes towing stuff around in the trailer.

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[bigchicken]

I have a two wheel barrow for horse sh-t transport could never afford or want so called boys toys, I did all that when I was a boy. The plain reality of life no frills or fancy stuff for me. 

[Fleecewife]

An ancient David Brown for heavy work such as the baler, mowing, tedding, lifting stumps etc, a Siromer for light tractor work, ploughing, rotavating, trailer etc, a Land Rover Series 1 80" and a Series 3 LWB for fetching timber and supplies, carrying sheep in emergencies, towing trailers on baling day, carrying logs, taking grandchildren on safari etc (the Series 1 also towed a friend's Hi-Lux the other day when it conked out  )
 
We don't have a quad and don't want one.
 
But mostly we use wheel barrows  for shifting stuff - hay bales, rocks, logs, tools, soil, dogs, straw, strainers and stobs (precarious). 
 
We have one tractor and one Land Rover each     Ridiculous 

[tizaala]

A couple of wheelbarrows , and one of those 4 wheeled mesh sided trolleys with drop-down sides ( best tool ) powered by Gabi (even better   ) Subaru forester with an old cut down rice box trailer for the heavy work , takes 2 hestons of hay or straw.

[HappyHippy]

We've got an old Ford tractor (used for carting whole trailers of timber and pig poo or connecting to the log splitter) and a quad (handy when it's going  ) but by far the most used and adaptable vehicle is an old beat-up Toyota Hilux - it pulls trailers, carries piglets/weaners/straw & feed in the back and runs on recycled veggie oil 

I think it depends on what you'll be doing, as to what toys you'll need 

[MikeM]

My feet !

the same, tho I use my feet not rusty's.

[MAK]

Wheelburrow and a wide hay burrow that I haul up the hill to run back with 2 meter logs ( keeps the weight down). We have a 20 year Citroen for collecting feed but otherwise FEET. It is rare to see a large 4x4 in rural France - cattle and sheep farmers use small vans or their tractors despite the severe winters and our local topography.

[ppd]

We have a quad and a trailor and the best buy ever! Moving hay, straw, poo, fence posts or just anything really. Makes life much easier and would not want to be without it now Oh and loads of wheelbarrows too....

[Castle Farm]

I have a 69 horse power Case tractor for bailing, turning, topping and harrowing and an old Escort van with grass track tyres on it to carry stuff around such as my fencing tools, saws and in winter used as a feed store for sheep cake.

Cheap second hand van would be about £300 (mot failer) but brilliant as a run around.

[john and helen]

in france i had a 64hp SAME tractor..that thing was awesome... it had a back box which was great for lugging the rubbish from the roofs out and the front bucket was so handy

i guess a lot of it depends on what ground you have , i would love some woodland as well as a paddock..
i am so looking forward to changing my lifestyle... i know it will be hard work...but i don't mind that..
and its something i have wanted to do for years ...

i love laying floors and creating things..but i just hate the flooring world..building sites are just rush rush rush..there is no time to take pride in what your doing

to be able to grow things, rear animals for the table, do up a barn..thats right up my street..and the best bit will be having helen to share it all

one other thing i want to do is... invite units who have children with disabilities to come over and muck in one way or another..even if its just to stroke a pig... ile never forget when i was young and dad took us to a farm.. my little sister annie got to stroke a lamb... she is 55 now and has never forgot that..she has a mental age of 5.... funny how the small things to us can be so massive to others

of coarse..a quad bike is going to be massive for me  I know..i am a big kid too