Once we get settled I plan on doing that. It's only about 10 miles from the Blue Ridge Pkwy. But first I'll need to get my daughter and son-in-law to move their full timer 38 ft class A with the 5 slides outta there, I couldn't even get my 179 in there right now, that thing is HUGE. 

A boom on the 3 pt is a great idea short of spending the $$ on a loader and 4wd.  

As I want a ROPS and power steering I was thinking of stepping forward to the '80's and looking at a MF240. Perkins diesel. The later ones also had wet brakes, I haven't seen many tractors with dry mechanical brakes where they seemed to work properly, and I think I'll need all the help I can get brush hogging the hills I have. 

I'd love more suggestions on this from you experienced small scale tractor operators and this thread is the wrong place. I'll start one in the off topic section... 

Vann

I hope you put that on BoondockersWelcome.....mine is.

I did drive a Massey 35 I liked but it had armstrong steering, Hydraulic steering is another benefit to the newer equipment, my back and shoulders aren't what the once were....Anyway, like RV'ing, it should be fun, not a white knuckle experience. 

I had to sell my old Land Cruiser when I was living in the Outer Banks, couldn't stand to see it suffer corrosion, so now I only have my modern "practical" vehicles. Since we bought our little hobby farm here in SWVA I have toyed with the idea of getting an antique tractor for mowing it, but its too steep in spots to take the risk so I'm going to get a more modern safer, and "practical" tractor as well. 

Sweet, Years ago I owned a '69 Corvette with hardtop/convertible.  350/350 HP high performance and 11.5:1 compression ratio.  Lots of fun to drive but was not as fast as my '64 Dodge Polara 500 with a hemi.  Wish I had the Vette now, worth a fair amount of chump change.

Off topic but what mouse free vintage cars do you have in there? 

Carefully inspect the whole bottom of the trailer and plug any holes you see, even really small ones. Mice can get through cracks or holes as small as 1/4 inch. like the diameter of a pencil. 

Personally, I find either cats or warfarin to be effective, but not at the same time. The trick with cats is not to feed them when you're trying to get rid of the little mousies. The problem with warfarin is that while they're bleeding out the mice get cold and find a nice warm spot to die in, like the condenser coils of a fridge....But stinky dead mice are better than live ones. 

BTW, I just cleared a mouse nest and family easier than I thought. They set up camp under my outside Bilco doors in cellar stairwell. I mixed up a few crushed moth balls with half gallon water with some dishwashing soap. Poured in down the stairs. Next day they were gone. Would definitely work in your pod! Of course, you might have to wait a couple of years to sleep in it, but there won't be any mice!!

With a tear in my eye, I had to ask the snake to leave and gently escorted him out.  My wife doesn't like snakes.  

"I hates those meeses to pieces!"

Or whatever is doing that...