Sean in PA
Well-known Member
I ended up giving my '73 4000 S-O-S tractor with a Freeman loader and a Woods rotary mower to a guy who stopped by to ask about it a couple of months ago. I had finally cleared all of my property to where it was all mowable grass a few years ago and I had no more use for the 4000. It had sat for a couple of years and the choke cable was busted so you had to have someone hold the choke lever closed while you turned the key to start it. It had paid for itself years earlier in my mind and I wanted it to go to someone who needed it and would take care of it. I still have my Kubota BX25D and a couple of JD X500 series garden tractors, which are all I need for this property. We just bought a manufactured home in Florida in a 55+ community that will eventually be our retirement home. My mother-in-law still lives next door to us here in PA, and we won't move to Florida full time until she decides that she wants to sell her house and move in with my brother-in-law or move to a retirement community. We had been spending our winters in Florida for the past few years in our RV, and last year we lost the RV in a fire. My physical capabilities are slowly reducing as I get older due to several health issues. The latest is a problem with my lungs. I am in the process of getting approved for the lung transplant list. My doctor says that it will hopefully never come to that, but he wants me to start the process now because it is a long process, and he wants me to be approved before I need to actually get on the list, because if I wait until I need it, the approval process could take too long and I might not be approved in time. Anyhow, I will still be lurking here even though I no longer own a Ford tractor, and I might still speak up occasionally. This is a great community of people and I feel that I know many of you even though we have never met in person.
