>>>Then he came in with another contraption:<<<
LOL you sound like my wife... Big city girl that she is...(raised in a huge metropolis of about 350 residents)
To her, farm equipment is either a tractor, plow, combine - anything else is a thingy. If it pulls it is a tractor, if it moves the soil, a plow, and if it is really big it is a combine.
So that ‘contraption’ appears to me from the picture - is a Ford 8N (possibly 9N but I can’t see where the distributor is) and he is using a 3 point hitch disk. I drove our 8N tractor many many hundreds of hours doing anything you can imagine.
Neighbors like Glenn are invaluable - bake him a pie sometime.
Hope he comes on and joins in...
Your wife is correct, and if it's not a thingy, it's a whatamacallit.
I've always been interested in survivalism which prompted my buying property in this area. I originally bought two properties (just shy of 7 acres) at the end of a dirt road on a spring-fed lake and had my daughter and her family move onto one of them. When I retired, I moved onto the other. The nearest store is about 7 miles away and 'town' is 20 miles away. We're just west of the Ocala National Forest and Ocklawhawa River. It's a good place to be.
Glenn is more than invaluable but I think he'll enjoy a case of Bud Light more than a pie.