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Enty
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Sep 29, 2012 - 02:08pm PT
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I used to like tractors but I don't like them any more.............
I'm an ex-tractor fan.
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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Sep 29, 2012 - 03:25pm PT
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this is what I'm talkin' about:
and here they are at work on Stately Pleasure Dome above Tenaya Lake too. Lots to get done on The Great White Book before winter sets in!! Big rush here!!
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perswig
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I'm kinda partial to the Minnies, too, Dingus.
Dale
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perswig
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Been driving the same route to work for the last 8 years and just noticed this sitting next to the road...
Looks like a Centaur cultivator, c. 1930?
Dale
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rich sims
Social climber
co
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Oct 25, 2012 - 11:28pm PT
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Sorry no pictures of the tractors
I was sent to Illinois to start my first real job at 12 on my uncle’s farm mowing and plowing down government acres. $1.25 an hour, $10.00 a day I was rich!
Government acres, is land we were paid not to harvest but mowe down and plow the wheat back into the ground.
So I made two mistakes my first day. I stopped and turned off the tractor to pee.
So my aunt flags me down as I pass the drive way to the highway.
She then scolds me for turning off the tractor to talk to her and then again for turning it off to pee.
She says can’t you just hang it out and pee while the tractor is moving.
Oh that crossed so many boundaries for this shy 12 year old. LOL
What a summer for a city boy from San Diego, learning to drive tractors and trucks on the roads between the three farms.
Riding a stallion given to me that hated girls/women but would let me ride him and guide him with just a halter. Flirting with the not so old trainers helpers at the show horse’s stables made me feel years older, at least 15.
It was defiantly a summers of firsts.
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Oct 27, 2012 - 08:59am PT
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This truck is my tractor. (and gear tester) Gonna be doing some serious welding after this little episode...
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Oct 28, 2012 - 07:30am PT
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My neighbor Loyde is the local fix it man. he just pulled the plug on the life support for my truck. pronounced her dead.. :(
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hooblie
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from out where the anecdotes roam
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Oct 28, 2012 - 10:22am PT
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tradman, i've seen a firewall forward remnant of an AMC muscle car outfitted
so that it would attach in place of the bucket of a front end loader.
the 396 c.i. engine was powering a rotary snowplow where the back
of the vehicle used to be.
sorry for your loss
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Mighty Hiker
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Vancouver, B.C.
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Oct 28, 2012 - 02:59pm PT
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Surely EKat can throw in a few photos of old and new Zambonis? They're a kind of tractor, after all. Maybe even those snow-grooming machines she so likes.
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Fletcher
Trad climber
Fumbling towards stone
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Oct 28, 2012 - 07:09pm PT
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This makes for a great Sunday afternoon read on one of the last lay hot days of fall (I hope). Great stuff here.
Loved Rich's story about the correct way being to "hang it out" and pee while the tractor is running. This is Guy 101! Ha ha!
I worked at a summer camp right out of college in Southern Wisconsin (Oconomowoc). I was the leader of a unit of younger teenagers and counselor. We lived in these giant surplus canvas army tents on concrete platforms. The camp had an old tractor (a Ford I think, don't recall much other than the fun of driving it) and it was a blast fer sure. Used it mostly for hauling a flatbed of camp equipment or a boatload of teenagers. More fun that you can swing a stick at. If I have photos, they are deeply buried.
There was also an old unregistered Plymouth Duster (or similar Mopar make) that was my "camp" car. Bald tires and beat up to hell, had some fun in that thing too, driving it around the dirt roads and fields.
TPFU!
Would definitely welcome eKat input on this thread!
My big unrealized dream in life is to be a snowcat operator. At least for one night to see what it's really like.
Eric
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Borut
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french
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Oct 29, 2012 - 11:56am PT
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Nothing much, but I thought I'd drop by. Hello!
Great topic!
Borut
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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This is my tractor. just arrived today. needs lots of work. The crappy plow comes off tomorrow and the Fisher goes on. needs brakes, heater core,wireing,carb work, shifting linkage, etc, etc but man is she Cool!
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cowpoke
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store in Oslo (with stores in NY and LA, too, I think), Moods of Norway, is working on making the tractor chic
they have waffle makers too:
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Elcapinyoazz
Social climber
Joshua Tree
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There's a little spot on the Appalachian Trail, somewhere near Grayson Highlands in Virginia IIRC..been a long time ago since I was there... where you're crossing this big open area of rolling grassy hills. And someone took about 4 or 5 old tractor seats and sank the posts into the ground making a sort of park bench type setup.
Maybe I can find a pic, I sat there and enjoyed some medicinal and a nice sunset. Had to be the most comfortable a tractor seat in all my life (it helps that it ain't bouncing you all over and that you just spent the last 6 hrs hiking 20 miles with a pack)...EDIT: sumbitch, here they are:
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klk
Trad climber
cali
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Nov 14, 2012 - 02:55pm PT
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ok the swedish turbo tractor rocks
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Fletcher
Trad climber
Fumbling towards stone
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Nov 14, 2012 - 03:18pm PT
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OK, I agree... that Swedish Tractor video is the best! I'm a quarter Swedish and this COMPLETELY explains my younger brothers' behaviour over the years! Ha ha!
Probably explains some of my own, but I'm not admitting it! :-)
Eric
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