Big Blue Comes to the Farm

Brent called me to take pictures of the tractor when it was delivered because he was away from the farm.  It was a pretty exciting day for the family.  It's the only brand NEW piece of equipment I can ever remember purchasing.  Add that to the fact that it was blue and there was plenty of talk around the town.  One cannot have a yard full of green and not take a little slack when you change colors.

Hudson was pretty sure he saw it in transport on the bus ride home from school.

In preparing for this year's harvest, Brent decided that packing was our limiting factor.  If one of our pack tractors went down, we would be sunk.  There is no way that we could keep up with our little tractor.

 So we sold our old 8640.  It was a little bitter sweet.  I remember going with Brent to pick that tractor up with Hudson, the little toddler in tow.  We purchased it from a dry farmer up by Ashton.  It was the tractor that got us into the packing business we have today.  After nearly ten years of hard work for our farm, we sold it for what we paid for it.  Now that is a good investment.

The kids quickly dubbed the new tractor as Big Blue, the perfect color for Firth Cougars.

Tuff came to visit soon after we got Big Blue.  Brent was excited to show it to him.  He wasn't impressed with it or our green pack tractors.  He requested to see a baby tractor.  I guess they're too intimidating to him.  I can agree, they are some big pieces of equipment.

Family photo opp.