posted 3 years ago
I'm not sure if this is the right forum, but scrolling through it seemed like the best bet.
I have scoured the internet looking for a small multimodal farm machine I saw about 20 years ago, but now the internet is so full of junk I can't find it.
Many many years ago--before I had two children who are now 17 years old. I got interested in permaculture, but then I had twins, I also was the major breadwinner, teaching full time while my husband was in grad school. My kids are now much less dependant on me, and I am teaching part-time now, so I'm ready to get raring back into permaculture, we have land in the mountains of southern Mexico, and have enrolled in a government program to add fruit trees and fruiting cacti to the families, worn-out milpa (corn/beans/squash) fields. The problem is we live in a rainy-dry season climate with nearly zero rainfall from November to May. We want to do some rainwater catchment earthworks, and I have studied Brad Lancaster's books to the point where I practically have them memorized.
But we need some machinery. We can rent a large digger, but it will be coming from about two hours away. I remember from the time before I had children, seeing a video online that came from somewhere like Arkansas or somewhere near there--US south, but not very eastern south I think, of a small tractor that had a whole slew of different attachments so basically that one engine could run your entire farm. It could be a dig, plow, mow, grind, push dirt/snow, pull wagons, do just about any farm machinery job but it wasn't large. Like, the main part was no bigger than a mini cooper and the idea was you purchased the add ons you needed.
Does anyone know what I'm talking about? or know of something similar? Can you share a link if you do? I'm seriously interested in purchasing such a thing.
We are mainly interested in earth moving capabilities but could rent it to the community for other agricultural uses as well.
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