Hooking up implements

I am learning to be a farmer.. very.. very.. slowly. And when I say slowly, I mean monty python waiting for the knights to charge kind of slow. Well lately that has started to finally get some inertia. I have:

• Worked with a seed company to purchase a few acres worth of local pollinator seed.

• Working with my counties Conservation District, the state Fish and Wildlife habitat program, the federal Natural Resources Conservation Service, and more to rent equipment and get funding.

This also meant that.. I had to stop being lazy/afraid and figure out my tractor/mowing implements so I could clear the way for the new planned pollinator fields:

So on to todays saga:

I went out right about dawn to the tractor , turned it on and let it rev for a bit to warm up.

Then I maneuvered it in the barn and backed it up to the rotary mower implement... but then I couldnt figure out how to lower the 3 point connection points.. none of the levers in the tractor were doing it.

So I had to google .. and believe it not no one is stupid enough not to know how to do this because all of the videos were about other stuff BESIDES lowering it... so I had to tear apart the tractor cab to find the manual.. Then I realized after reading it, facepalm , the levers WORK.. they just arent AUTOMATIC when LOWERING.. only RAISING.

So anyway I set it the right heigh, went and manually pushed on it to lower it.. went to hook up the implement shaft to the PTO shaft... annnnnnnd... it wouldnt slide on.

The thing is heavier than sin and hurts my back to manipulate back and forth trying to shove it onto this god damn shaft while breaking my finger to push the ball bearing down.

Soooo back to google.. and everyone is like, "What are you talking about moron, its easy, but make sure to ATTACH THE 3 POINTS FIRST MORON". Facepalm.

So I re maneuver the tractor like 50 times to get it to line up, break my fingers some more attaching the 3 point connection points, lift the implement with my newfound knowledge of lever usage ... and try again.

STILL DOESNT GO ON.

So back to google. "Moron, if its still not going on, why havent you greased it? Also if you are this dumb you probably havent greased every other part of the tractor". Yea, they right, they right... Asked my neighbor but he didnt have any.. so off to fricken town I go to buy a $350 grease gun, grease, and a bunch of other stuff I needed.

SO NOW I have to figure out this grease gun, which has like 100 ways to load it, and the way I need to load it, I accidentally snapped the spring against my finger utterly bruising the shit out of it and making a mess of this grease everywhere.

Then I go to the tractor, break my back some more getting to the like 8+ grease points on each side filling em up (its a good thing the internet told me, they were pretty damn dry), and then moved on to the PTO shaft...

Well after greasing it up (and myself all over because my back is breaking and im falling all over), I FINALLY shoved that damn thing onto it...

Only to now have to wait till WEDNESDAY to cut these damn fields because it is now ONE PM lol and I dont want to accidentally catch the farm on fire by sparking the dead fields.

So yea.. so continues the saga of pretending to be a farmer. One day ill actually have grown something lmao.