Posted by Farmgirlintheburbs on January 17, 2016 at 05:43:05 from (24.140.17.98):
New here. I've been homesteading/small scale farming for several years. Not surprisingly, my 4 year old boy has been tractor-crazy almost since birth. "Tractor" was his first word after mama. Sadly for us, my selfish small puncture wound of an ex decided that 7 months into my second pregnancy was a great time to abandon us for an 18 year old girl (not even a country 18 year old, I'm way better looking, and I guarantee she can't bake like me). So now we are living in the burbs with my parents, and it's been a heartbreaking goodbye to Daddy, the homestead, the tractors, and our horses and other livestock.
My son is devastated as you can imagine, so I'm trying to do everything I can to hold onto whatever I can from our country days. Obviously a big part of that is tractors. Problem is, the grand total of my tractor knowledge is how to drive them, how to ID the make by color (hey, this is a big deal! I didn't grow up with this stuff!), and what maybe 50% of the parts are. What can I say; I was more into the living stuff on the farm.
I can take my boy to shows and auctions, but I want to teach him the nitty gritty, so that when he gets older he can do mechanical work and restore machinery and all that good stuff. Also, in the next few years I'm hoping to buy rural property again, and something more tractor-like than Grandpa's Craftsman lawnmower. So that means I need to learn, too.
Where do I start? Books, videos, some kind of classes? I'm cut off from our old life and don't have any live mentors available. Help me out, guys!
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