As I was servicing the tractor and rotatory mower on Saturday preparing for a day of mowing, I noticed that the the support for the wheel on the mower was cracking at the weld. It has fallen off before and been welded back on. That repair has started to crack again and I was showing the wife that I guess it is time to get a new mower and look at a heavier duty one. I admitted that I was rough on the mower, but it has done well for 8 years cleaning up the farm. She looked at it, took a picture and said ok.
I thought that meant I was getting the greenlight to start mower shopping, I was wrong.
I come home from work yesterday and she said the A-frame support will be here next week. I was confused, wasn't sure what she was talking about. She said she had looked at a new mower cost, then went to Messicks website, "did you know that they have diagrams of all the parts you could need?". She went on to explain she found the part, drove up to our local Kubota dealer and talk to Linda's son (her friend's son works the part department) and he made sure she had figured out the correct part for our mower and she ordered it. The part will be here in a week and no shipping since they are bringing it in on their regular delivery. She went on to explain all she has to do is take a picture and they can help her find the part and I won't have to buy new equipment, we can save money just repairing it.
Well, I had to admit I was proud of her for being helpful and jumping into trying to keep things going. At the sametime I was a little disappointed because I was looking forward to buying the new mower.
Although, she pointed out that with the money we saved, we can put that in our excavator fund. So, the disappointment quickly disappeared.
