Olivia's Simplicity 616 is famous

Simplicity put Olivia's Yeoman 616 on their Facebook page the other day. Pretty cool they wanted to show it off! It definitely gets looks when we use it to pull the large hay wagon around with people in it. And now it's famous!

A little too much...

Had our first snow fall of the season and it was a little too much for the snowblower on the Broadmoor 738. It was really wet snow which just instantly compacted, and the belt on the tractor was not tight enough to fight it. So had to finish with the Sovereign with the blade mounted. We'll give it a shot again once I tighten the belt!

Last minute leaf cleanup

Well, we are supposed to get our first snow tomorrow so I did some last minute cleanup with the Simplicity Yeoman 616 this afternoon. As you can see in the background of the first photo, the Sovereign and Broadmoor 738 are waiting to play in the snow!

Grandma's Simplicity 738

In the previous post we were given a Simplicity 738 by my wife's uncle. It was owned by Mandy's grandma throughout the 1970's, 80's and 90's until she passed away.  Mandy had even used it in high school to mow the lawn. Today she got back on it and mulched some leaves. Since she used to mow with it, I don't think she has any excuses next summer not to mow once in a while!

A family tractor

My wife's uncle called me a while ago and told me he had a tractor for me. His mom(my wife's grandma) had bought a Simplicity back in the 70's and it had been in the family and mowing since then, first at her house and then up north at property they had when she passed away and they sold her house. So this has been in constant use for 40 years!  He brought it to me and it was in much better shape then I expected. This tractor has been in my wife's family for 40 years, and it has a new home now!

Izzy uses her 515 for excavating!

We put the blade on Izzy's Simplicity Serf 515 for the first time and it did great!  Couldn't take huge bites out the dirt pile but the little tractor did a great job filling in the whole we dig to access our septic tank.

Mason Show

This years show was very frustrating for me. I started feeling ill on Friday and it got increasingly worse as the weekend went on. The kids had fun and tractors ran great, but it was hard for me to be there and I didn't take many photos. Lots of friends were there, and we had amazing weather the entire weekend.

Campsite ready

Olivia used her Simplicity 616 Yeoman to mow our campsite for the upcoming show in a couple weeks. Tractor show is getting close!

Used 5 this weekend!

We had a rare full weekend of nice weather so we tried to do a ton of chores. Izzy took a few more loads of wood to our neighbor on her 515 Serf, Mandy used the Sovereign to help with landscaping duties, the Broadmoor 717 did mowing chores, and the Broadmoor 738 and Yeoman 616 did wood hauling duties to get the original pile of wood and combine with the new pile right by the driveway, so anyone grabbing wood doesn't have to drive over the lawn. Whew!

Izzy with her 515 through the years

A couple of shots of Izzy with her 515 Serf through the years. 2013 is when she got her tractor for her fourth birthday, then at age 7 and now 10. Fun to see her growing next to her tractor!

Palmer Wood Delivery

Today we delivered some of the wood from our cut down trees to our neighbor across the street.  He can use it for campfires and in his home.  Since it was right across the street this was the easiest(and most fun) way to do it!

Yardwork with the Broadmoor, Yeoman & Broadmoor 738

Olivia and Alex helped me out today spreading topsoil where our well had been dug.  Olivia did a great job with her Yeoman 616 spreading the piles out, then Alex did a good job grading and rolling with his Broadmoor to make it more level.  They both did awesome! 

Broadmoor helps grade

Even though this is the oldest of our tractors, at 56 years old, it still does work. I used Alex's Broadmoor to grade an area by our pond that we are trying to clean up. Several stumps had been pulled out so it was very uneven, but it did a great job at leveling it out.

Abby does her first mowing

Abby did her first mowing today on her Simplicity Broadmoor 717!  She did an awesome job, even making her cuts fairly straight! She was having fun and getting work done!

First mow of 2019 and more chores

Today I mowed for the first time in 2019, and Izzy used her 515 Serf to fertilize the yard and I used Abby's Broadmoor 717 to move around some implements and wood for a fire tonight.