Sweet!

OMG that sounds just wonderful for you! A much needed item, more than a "toy." You certainly do work hard and deserve it.

I hope there will be pictures sometime.

LOL, another woman would be excited about a piece of jewellery or some such thing.

I love that you're excited over a piece of machinery! You'll have a blast using it, I'm sure. Hauling mulch for gardening, hauling wood, the possibilities are endless!

VERY terrific! Equipment like that will make some of those chores so much easier. I've always believed in doing work in the most efficient way possible.

Have fun....it looks cute enough to have a name.

Here is a link that might be useful: click here for pictures

I'm glad that rhizo_1 posted pics so that this city girl didn't have to embarrass herself by asking what a Yamaha rhino side by side is.

What colour did he get for you?

This post was edited by blfenton on Tue, Jan 27, 15 at 12:23

We dont have anything that heavy duty but when you live in the country you need a machine to helf with the chores. we do of course have a truck that helps with the heavy stuff but you still need something else and we have an ez go and when he bought it I thought ...yes another toy but boy was I wrong...we have used that thing so much ..it was worth every penny...congrats on your new toy.

OMG my husband would be so jealous and so am I a little!
They are just awesome! We don't have any place for one here but it does not stop him from drooling and saying how much he wants one. When he retires if we move to some property there is no doubt in my mind he will have one. Only if he sells one of the Harleys to get it however lol

You lucky girl! And I would also prefer that to jewelry.

oh man, congrats! you're as bad as me... getting all excited about equipment that will make your WORK easier. lol!

What a wonderful surprise, you must be so thrilled. I'd love to drive in one of those and also, what color is it? I need a visual haha. Have so much fun with it and I'm sure you will. You're husband is a keeper.

" ... face plants in the muck ..." ... are those "face plants" something like water lilies, Rosie? Or a wild rose-bud? (wild rose being the official plant of Alberta, for you other folks).

Referring to hauling newborn calves. When I was a kid we did most of the hauling on our rather large (in those days) farm with a trailer behind the car. The farm was a mile and a quarter long and when one of the heifers had had her first calf in a pasture field just this side of the woods at the back Dad took the car and trailer back there to load the calf into the trailer to bring to the barn. As he began to drive slowly away from the calving place, the mother followed for a short distance ... then returned to the place where the calf had been born. I don't remember whether Dad made a circle a couple of times to try to get her to follow, but she didn't. I was nine, and Dad asked whether I thought that I could drive the car to the barn while he pushed the calf ... and I, of course, said that I could. There were a couple of gates to open and close, which I accomplished without difficulty, and we had a gravel pit about half way to the barn, which gave me no trouble as I drove slowly and carefully down into it .. but as I was moving up the slope to go out ... the car stalled, and I had no success in trying start it again, on the upslope ... so had to wait until Dad came along, pushing the calf, with the heifer following, to get me out of my pickle.

My introduction to driving ... and as a farm kid, in World War II, I got my driving licence at age 15. Still got it, 70 years later ... and soon need to have my driving consultation and tests for rules of the road, driving signs, and a vision test ... with a few participants being asked to take a driving test, as well ... my fourth, as we have to have one at age 80 and every two years thereafter. Thirty-five bucks a shot, good for two years ... but it may go up, as the province is darn near broke, and having kept the annual fee for auto licence at the same level for a number of years, they increased it from $74.00 to $98.00 this year.

Once I asked the consultant/tester whether we got a gold star if we got them all right ... and she said that she'd been thinking of getting a smiley face with a car on it to give out.

Dad wondered whether, should one of the tires blow, he could get permission from the local ration board to get a replacement for the car ... so he talked to old Uncle Charlie, housebound for years, whose farm Dad sharecropped and who hadn't driven for some years and whom Dad shaved about once a week, whether he could use his '26 Hudson, with a square back, to make a truck, and Uncle said to go ahead.

So Dad cut the square back off and welded it back to the frame just behind the front seats, leaving a space of bare frame behind it, over the back wheels, then built a square, flat wooden platform on it ... one had to tie the loads down or drive *very* carefully ... or suffer a loss of load. The tires, having sat unused for years, weren't useful ... so Dad got four tires for that home-made truck! A toggle switch on the dash that one pulled to the left to turn on the ignition, and one beside it that one pushed to the right to turn on the lights - and one had to push a lever on the floor to operate the starter.

What memories a simple little story brings back to our minds!

ole joyfuelled

Joyful, what can I tell you about those lilies! All I can say is that muck is SO rich, not much will grow in it. And if it did anything for ones complexion, I would be bottling it up and selling it, instead of planting ones face in it. LOL

So my Rhino is blue, four wheel drive with mud bogger tires on it. Goes like a demon. Test drove it out on the home quarter, took snow filled irrigation ditches like they were little speed bumps! Got lots of guts, rides really smooth. LOVE IT!

And yeah, I get really excited with anything mechanical. Am way more comfortable shopping in the hardware store than any ladies dress store, for sure.

Rhizo, you are right, it is cute enough to have a name. I think Reggie would suit it. Yup, Reggie the Rhino!

At least ... no one's gonna shoot yours, for the horn, that can be sold for hundreds of thousands (cause yours, along with all of its fancy doo-dads, ain't horny).

What's that you say - that a horn is among the fancy doo-dads?

Well, I never!

o j

Reggie is my grand dog's name. I love it. Have fun with Reggie!

I think you and Reggie are going to get along just fine!!!
I'd love to see a pic of you roaring across the field, LOL

Cool toy! I like the way YOU think.....Reggie....:0)

"goo that sucks the boots off your feet and causes face plants in the muck"

UGH! Another memory. Not a fond one! We're surely birds of a feather here. Going into a clothing store gives me the creeps. Tractor Supply or Menard's however, I'm in! I would love to have any of those little runabouts but sadly, I really don't have anywhere to drive it now. Maybe up and down the lane?

That sounds like such fun--and so useful!

Love your memories Old Joyful, you should write a book, I'd read it. So enjoyable.

It sure looks like a lot of fun and to help with chores...thats an added bonus!!