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Joel, EW does bring up a point that most of us forget, but along with that, I'll relate my experience with custom tilling. When I got the 4310 new I also bought a 3 pt. tiller for it, same deal, I tilled our garden along the highway, WOWZER,, didn't know how popular I was. I didn't need a sign or a newspaper ad, information travels faster in a small town than the Pentagon could send it. I did several that were established garden sites, that was OK, but be real carefull when somebody wants to till up a new site that hasn't been worked up before, ROCKS, wire, roots, even a horseshoe and about anything else you can imagine, no wonder they wanted to hire it done. Next snafo, you either see most all of them in the post office or the cafe on a daily basis, they hand you a twenty, not even half enough, but you take it and leave. Then the issue of tiller knife replacement after the rocks etc., one knife wipes out a typical job's pay. I bought a new Land Pride for the 4310 last fall, it is on the tractor as we speak, but I've already turned down a couple jobs, IT AINT FOR HIRE, PERIOD!!! As I said I do wish you the best of luck, but just thought I'd relate my experience. Frank.
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Joel; Back in my heyday when I thought I was a bigtimer we farmed/custom farmed/ran a fulltime furniture plant/and did landscaping work with two Deere compacts and the equipment to compliment them. I did all this with the help and encouragement of the Mrs., one son who worked for us fulltime and some part time workers. Today here I sit with a worn out body, still somewhat sane eating pain killers like they are candy, and enjoying our retirement more than I ever though I could. I still am building some furniture, working around the farm with the "Baby Deere" on my terms not trying to meet someone elses terms, and for the first time in my life I don't owe a banker a D*** dime. While we were in the "Fire Ball Days" so to speak I never gave a thought to insurance, then I had the same awakeining as EW, being informed that I had to have every kind of high dollar insurance known to man to still be in business in our lawsuit happy world. Anyhow the reason for all this gut spilling blabbering is to kind of soften my prior statement of "AINT FOR HIRE" You do as you have planned and enjoy it. As a friend of mine who has now passed on used to say,"You want to work real hard, save every dime you can so your widdow's secon husband can really live it up". Oh, by the way, you think Cando is small, my home trown is 1/4 that size. Frank.
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