Tractors and Hobby Farming

I have ATT unlimited and have been throttled on it before while travelling and using lots of bandwidth. I get no signal at our new place on it, but sometimes get one bar up the road a bit, so that will be a tough test for the directional antenna. My daughter has Verizon and sometimes gets one bar at the house, so I think that might work. US Cellular has their own towers in the area and the locals all have that, so there is a good possibility. Just got the dsl in, They promised 1.5 mbps which is inadequate but its showing 3 mbps, which just might be enough.  Wife will try working from there next week and see. 

A couple of times I brought in a decent connection using the directional antenna with no service on showing on the phone with booster and omni antenna. Conditions have to be perfect. It was flat terrain, mostly open water in Eastern NC about 30 miles from the tower. So you can bring in a highly attenuated signal if you are in line of sight. 

If you are north of 44 degrees latitude, you can sign up to be a beta tester for Starlink.

Yep Tractorhouse is a good source. You can search on all tractors and sort by distance, and include price and hours  limits. The most annoying thing is that there are premium adds which get listed first and then the list starts over with regular ads, so you have to sift through premium stuff all the way out to CA and then start again. There are way more used older tractors on there in the East than in the West so its not too bad. 

One thing about diesel is that it lasts at least a year without stabilizer. Our Kubota takes MONTHS to use a whole tank of gas. So we get it in a 5 gallon can, and it just sits for that amount of time. Gasoline is a little cheaper, but you will probably have to add stabilizer, and then it just barely lasts as long as diesel.