ADHD is a disorder of impulse control. Guess what happens when you give a roughly 50 hp machine to a guy with impulse control issues? Yep, you guessed it. It isn't just the field that gets bush-hogged. My husband couldn't RESIST tackling the brush and small trees around the outside of the fence.
Fifty horses are powerful.
Tall brush has lots of particulates.
Fences don't hold up well when trees fall down on them after being uprooted by fifty horses.
Radiators don't like grills full of particulates.
The fence-and-tree situation responded to elbow grease, a chain saw, and standard tools. The radiator was another matter. The tractor reached the verge of overheating minutes after being started. Every time, no matter how much we let it cool off.
This may sound like an advertisement for Winchester Equipment's service department, but I have to say the folks there are my heroes. My grandfather farmed with a team of Morgan horses, and later fixed and maintained his own tractor. I went to college and don't have the first clue how to fix a tractor. But these days there are cell phones, and I can take pictures and e-mail them to the service technicians, and they can tell me what to do. Several of them have LOTS of experience with old Ford tractors. I learned how to use an air compressor to clear particulates out of the grill. Extra thanks to the stranger in Tractor Supply who told me which hose and couplers to buy. And IT WORKED!!! I wish all the other ADHD disasters were so easily fixed.
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