I think you just answered your own question. See, that wasn't too tough!
My "wife" issue was resolved (at great expense),....in 1997
Good day. I think all of our situations a little different. For me it comes down to do I want to have ready access? Simple answer is absolutely.
You make a lot of valuable points. Justify the machine..... Since I have owned my house I have bought 4 pieces of equipment. Only one, a simplicity legacy stood up to my yard. It died. The next machine was an expensive of crap. I wanted a well built, tough tractor to replace it....I wanted a Kubota. I admit I have always wanted a tough as nails piece of equipment. $25k worth of equipment over 27 years, on a teachers salary that is a lot. My two degrees did cost that much. So a good used Kubota was what I wanted.Good day. I think all of our situations a little different. For me it comes down to do I want to have ready access? Simple answer is absolutely.
Long answer…To me a tiller is one of those items that it’s used one or twice a year and when they are used they are a blessing…sure beats a shovel or pitch fork…the bigger the garden the more they help. I don’t have a rental place real close and honestly I don’t want to hook up the trailer or deal with rental places and try to time the weather / moisture level in the soil. For me, I have a time of year I want to get my garden tilled and early stuff in by, and when I get to a month in front of that target, whenever I see the ground is about correct moisture level on I put tiller on and the spin the tines…it could be during week after work or a weekend. Either way I use it based on the condition of my garden space. So for me it’s convenient having it readily available on my schedule. Does that make financial sense, maybe not…but as soon as I start doing the math there are a lot of things I am attached too that I would not need. I am ok with that. I like the self sufficiency aspect. Anyway to each their own…if not a production user with the machine it’s probably pretty hard to justify most of the attachments and maybe even the machine. Grapples and every other awesome implement are the same way. So it sort of comes down to your goals for having the machine. Good luck.
Another way to look at it…at least for me…if I go through the all the closets in the house and total up the price of just the shoes and boots that have not been worn in the past year, that’s more money right there than my tiller. Want to see the shoes / boots and raise me the sweaters…well then that covers a couple more attachments. Open the closets and do some cost justification there…I guarantee my occasional use implements make a lot more sense than some other stuff. To each there own really…sometimes priorities don’t allow everything at once or it simply doesn’t make sense. That’s ok too. Anytime I get wrapped around the axle about what a tool that know I am going to use will cost all I have to do is open the closet door, and that sort of nudges me to get what I have a plan to use more than once.is it an expensive hobby, yep. And I love every minute of it….i smile more on the tractor than I do at my desk at work.
I checked Facebook Marketplace and within 80 miles of Grass Lake Michigan there are a dozen used tillers being offered for sale. Check it out. Good luck.
