[Yosemite Sam]

The past few years I've been doing things to make my life easier as I get older.

There are about 300 yards of highway ditch with 4 driveways and a road in front of my property that get around 5 feet deep in various places.

Some of these ditches are a pretty hard climb to get out of at the ends and some gradually taper up to flat ground.

It is becoming increasingly difficult for me to set on the fender a good part of the time while steering and trying to maintain a somewhat constant ground speed with the hydro tractors.

Especially in the spring, often times water will stand or it is just too wet to mow the lower areas of these ditches every week and sometimes they can't be mowed for several weeks. So with the combination of tall, thick, wet grass and fairly steep inclines a higher hp tractor is more desirable to me.

Or maybe this is just the excuse that I've used to justify building this particular tractor.