Tools
or: how I tame parts of the property

My most important tool is (unfortunately) the mower.
I tried to do without, but the weeds are just too well-
adapted to my property. I got an extra-powerful motor 
so I could use it as a mini brush-hog for the blackberry
canes (which only have about a week of good berries, 
not as good as the blackcaps there). I also depend on the 
self-powered front wheels to get me back up the hills. I 
kind of wish I'd gotten a kind that bagged the clippings, 
for use in compost, but I have such horrible memories 
from my teens of mowing interupted by constant bag-emptying.
When the grass is long and somewhat dry and it's hot out, 
it's somewhat feasible to rake up the clippings.

A 15" auger on a Bobcat, haha. When I rent one for digging 
foundation pilings, I dig holes for trees and bushes, 
trenches for future beds, and I pull up honeysuckle (which 
grows like a giant 8-foot woody weed on my property).

Other than that -- a shovel when clearing bed or to move 
compost; wheelbarrow; a wonderful stainless trowel and 
digging fork set purchased at the Cornell gardens; a stick
as a dibble to plant; a flat metal rake to level beds,
rake in compost, get some weeds (sometimes used on edge
for that).

I recycled plastic milk container bottoms for peat pellet 
trays this year. (Half of my starting trays got stuck
in the snow and ice this year because I left them 
outside.) I'm going to use the tops of the clear jugs 
as cloches, and I've started recycling the tops of the 
white milk containers in approximately 0.75" X 3.5" 
strips as ID tags for the plants.

I need to use my carpentry tools to make cold frames 
this year! I have a lot of other hand-tools, but the
ones above get used the most.

Wishlist:
I need use of a bulldozer at some point to dig out the 
seasonal pond and see if I can make it an all-year one.

Rototiller would be appreciated for starting new beds, but 
instead, I layer up, a la "lasagna gardening." (I'm going to 
use the trenches mainly for asparagus and potatoes, which
need trenches anyway.)

I need to be able to make hay. I'm a few years away from
that, but I need the mulch, badly.