Well Dodgegal, I'll take your dad, as long as he comes with a tractor, and all of those other tractors out there as well.
It is not so much buying a tractor that is the problem, it's a place to store it. We have less than an acre and our garage is jammed full of stuff, so full we can't of...
I have backhoe- tractor envy. I spent over an hour tring to move a 10ftx 4 ftx 8 ft pile of dirt left over from construction and in the way of my chicken's electric fence. Needless to say, I didn't get it all moved, but my back hurts.