Best purchases

Some time ago there was a posting on the topic of which tools were the most desirable. Now there has been a year or so to review this.

A knife is definitely required. Even if all one is doing is opening bags of feed and bales of hay, it's a good friend to have.

A hat. A broad brimmed, comfortable hat. It keeps off the sun and the rain, the hail and the snow.

A truck. There are way too many heavy and inconvenient things to carry around on a farm to ignore the utility of a truck.

Boots. Light shoes are all right for a lot of work, but when the snow is deep, the mud is slick and there are hours worth of work to be done, boots come into their own.

Gloves. Farms are full of hard, rough, sharp things as well as animals that don't want to be manhandled. Latex or similar gloves for butchering, thick leather for hard labour, but gloves are a big help.

Everything else is fairly contingent on the nature of the farm, but some kind of weapon for dealing with pests is probably a good idea as well, since there is no farm which cannot be ruined by pest animals.