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Dingus Milktoast

Gym climber
And every fool knows, a dog needs a home, and...
Topic Author's Original Post - Jul 27, 2012 - 01:58pm PT
Up in Woodland is the superb Fred Heidrick Antique Tractor and Ag Collection, the Hays Antique Truck Collection see at http://www.aghistory.org/

I've been in there a few times over the years and anyone interested in old trucks or tractors driving up i-5 out of Sacramento through the town of Woodland, you can't miss it, on the right as you come into Woodland out past the Sacramento airport, just past the Walgreens warehouse. Its backed right up to the freeway, take the first woodland exit, right at the stop sign, left at the light, left into the museum parking lot.

So the reason I even bother to mention it....

I was in Ft Lee VA this week on business. As me and my colleagues drove to our destination I glanced out the window and saw the Keystone Tractor Works museum.

I DIDN'T HAVE TIME TO VISIT!!!1111111
http://www.keystonetractorworks.com/virginia-museum/

I shoulda MADE time. Sometimes I hit on all cylinders when traveling, and get to see some unusual things. More often its like this... ah but if I had the time, the stories I could tell!

DMT
Marlow

Sport climber
OSLO
Jul 27, 2012 - 02:02pm PT
My grandfather had one of these. A fabulous workinghorse. He still had it in the eighties. We worked very well together.

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One of today's monsters

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Jstan

A great picture. Is that you on the tractor? I know the feeling. The Ferguson was one of my friends.
jstan

climber
Jul 27, 2012 - 02:13pm PT
We never should have sold that 30's Farmall A. It was my best friend.
goatboy smellz

climber
Nederland-GulfBreeze
Jul 27, 2012 - 05:06pm PT
Boy, who built that lean to, Stevie Wonder?
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Jul 27, 2012 - 05:23pm PT
This was our 1st tractor on the farm. photo taken 1965 by my aunt. we eventually upgraded to a Ford 800 or 850?
Mighty Hiker

climber
Vancouver, B.C.
Jul 27, 2012 - 05:24pm PT
I hope this thread has traction.

The Western Development Museum in Saskatoon has lots of plows and tractors and such, going back more than a century. Well worth a visit. http://www.wdm.ca/stoon.html

Standard Friday night date in farm country: Allis Chalmers and John Deere.
Elcapinyoazz

Social climber
Joshua Tree
Jul 27, 2012 - 06:01pm PT
Growing up in the rural south, I think we all got to drive a tractor at an early age as one of our first driving experiences.

Mine was on one of these (think I'd driven the neighbor's 68 Chevy pickup on the deer lease when he had to open the gate or something once before getting on one of these): 40's era Ford

Gary

climber
"My god - it's full of stars!"
Jul 27, 2012 - 06:11pm PT
My first driving experience was on a McCormick Farmall. I've loved torque ever since.

That's a nice rebuild, Dingus. What the hell is it?
klk

Trad climber
cali
Jul 27, 2012 - 06:14pm PT
elcap-- i learned on a forties ford.

also got to watch my grampa roll and light cigs with one hand.

i'd love to have enough ground to justify owning one. at the moment, i only get to buy tractor porn calendars.

http://classictractors.com/calendar.html

Nohea

Trad climber
Living Outside the Statist Quo
Jul 27, 2012 - 08:13pm PT
First driving experience above the lawn mower was the late 40's John Deer A. I was amazed that it was still running, the thing was tough, and as my young mind did the math I realized the JD and my dad were about the same age.

Neighbor had an old international and before we could play we had the farm work to complete. Rarely drove that one but caught a gazillion bail of hay off the backside.

Hey it's the weekend, let's get out there and enjoy.

Aloha,
Will
Elcapinyoazz

Social climber
Joshua Tree
Jul 28, 2012 - 11:19am PT
Dingus, we had a bridge that looked almost exactly like that..through truss, wooden deck, about 100' span, 12' wide, 18' up to the top of the tress, 'cept the railing was 2" angle iron or similar, instead of round stock. On Conley Ditch road, over Jackson Lake, built in 1909, and my @#$%^&* schoolbus used to cross the thing! Sketchy. They finally replaced it in 2000 with a new concrete monstrosity.

It was about a mile and half from my folk's house where I grew up. Dirt road lead to it, where my bro taught me how to drive a stick (paved that when they replaced the bridge) , decent bluegill and crappie fishing under the bridge. Every now and then some drunk redneck would jump off the top and about break their legs since it was only about 6' deep in late summer.

Old saying is true, you really can't ever go home again...it's all gone...the people, the places, all the unique things.
Elcapinyoazz

Social climber
Joshua Tree
Jul 28, 2012 - 11:43am PT
They were burly for sure. My neighbor got that one sunk into a bog trying to cross the little creek in the woods below his corn field where he'd cleared a little patch for some melons. Luckily my stepdad had a friend's front end loader, like a much smaller version of a D-9, sitting in our yard at the time (something about hiding it from the repo man!). We loved having it around, used it to skid out a ton of red and white oak from the woods behind the house to cut up at our leisure. So pops fired up the loader and went down there to pull him out. Big spectacle for us, way better than watching another block of Bill Dance and Orlando Wilson. I think payback was a loan of his bass boat for a weekend (both were church-going men, never seen either of them take a drink).

I don't miss much about the south, but there are definitely things we got out there that you'd never get growing up in the 'burbs.
klk

Trad climber
cali
Jul 28, 2012 - 12:15pm PT
it's all gone...the people, the places, all the unique things.

the banks have taken everything but the crank
Tony Bird

climber
Northridge, CA
Jul 28, 2012 - 12:46pm PT
tractors were a family business for us--oliver tractors, formerly hart-parr of charles city, iowa.

my great uncle george managed the factory there for a long time. when he retired, they gave him a plaque that said, "you made tractors, george, the best in the land", and they were right. john culbertson, one of his assistants, has published a couple books on the good old days there, when everybody seemed to be on the same side and pulled together. these people knew how to have fun and work at the same time, a long forgotten pairing in most of america. the downside was that, due to the engine foundry, the factory eventually became a superfund site.


my dad got a job through his uncle and stayed until oliver got bought by white motor corporation and merged with minnie-mo, cockshutt and other inky-dinkies, all of which died their corporate deaths in the 1970s. there are basically three companies left in this field, john deere, ford, and caterpillar. if you think teddy roosevelt's trust busting and subsequent antitrust legislation means a damn thing in the united states of america, i hope they have a job for you in china.

you'll still see olivers once in awhile. i see them in the fields around oxnard, ancient, but still running like tops. the philosophy was that farmers don't like to buy cheap equipment, they want things that'll last. the first time i heard the term "planned obsolescence" was while visiting my dad at corporate headquarters in downtown chicago shortly after they were acquired by white.

dad was a lawyer for the company, but he was a ham actor at heart, and he once did a great job of playing drunk at a business meeting with uncle george, one of the anecdotes in the book, which became legendary. he also liked to address farmers with the opening line, "we stand behind all our products ... except the manure spreaders."

Tony Bird

climber
Northridge, CA
Jul 28, 2012 - 12:52pm PT
One Saturday afternoon, before our monthly management club meeting at the armory, George had a pre-meeting cocktail party in his basement. His nephew, Bob Bird, from the Chicago office, was the evening's program speaker. When I arrived, the party was just getting underway, and I chatted with Bob. He was immaculately dressed, smiling, and in great shape for his presentation. But as the cocktail hour went on, Bob looked and acted as though he had spent too much time at the bar bending his elbow. By the time we left for dinner at the armory, Bob's tie was loose at the collar, his shirt was partially unbuttoned and hanging out at the belt. In fact, he looked a mess; his speech was slurred and his walk was unsteady.

George was beside himself, and for once, he didn't know what to do. At the head table at the armory, Bob was boisterous, dropped his silverware, and created quite a disturbance. All eyes in the room were on Bob, as he proceeded to make an absolute ass of himself. George was embarrassed beyond words and tugged at Bob's sleeve to calm him down. George leaned over and urged him to give up trying to make a speech. This riled Bob all the more and set him off on a loud tirade against George.

Those of us who were seated close to George were mortified, but there was nothing we could do about it. Anything George said was brushed off and to no avail. After dinner the president of the club warily approached the podium, opened the meeting, and quickly conducted the business. With a furtive glance at George, as if to ask, "Do I close the meeting now or introduce Bob?", the president realized it was up to him to decide. Without dwelling on Bob's impressive background and wanting to get this bad scene over as quickly as possible, he simply said, "It is my pleasure to introduce Bob Bird from our Chicago office," and quickly returned to his seat.

As the crowd of more than 200 men and women politely clapped, Bob lurched to his feet, knocked over his chair and kicked it out of the way. His hair was disheveled, his shirt was hanging out of his pants, and he was more out of than in his suitcoat. Everyone gasped, and you could hear some whisper, "He's drunk." One even murmured, "My God, he really is stoned!"

Bob fell twice as he ascended the stairs to the podium. On the podium, he tried to grab the microphone, but in his apparent tipsy condition it took him three attempts before he conquered it with both hands. He wiped his nose with a sweep of his coat sleeve, rolled his eyes, opened his mouth, and struggled to stay on his feet. The room was hushed, and everyone including George was appalled at what they were witnessing. Bob closed his mouth, opened it again, then shouted, "INTERCOURSE!" The men blinked, looked at each other, and thought in disbelief, "What did he say?" The women bowed their heads, closed their eyes, and tried to hide their embarrassment.

While reactions swirled around the audience, Bob turned his back on everyone and disappeared behind the podium curtain. We all sat there stunned and looked at George to see what he was going to do. He just sat there as if someone had shot him. But momentarily Bob emerged from behind the curtain, and the audience had reason to gasp again in disbelief. It was a miraculous transformation. Bob was smiling; his hair was neatly combed; his shirt was buttoned and properly tucked in, and his tie no longer loosened. To my astonishment, he was as immaculately groomed and dressed as when I greeted him a few hours earlier. What's more, he was steady on his feet. He stepped confidently to the microphone, deftly positioned it, and in a clear, crisp voice and with a broad smile said, "Things aren't always what they seem." George looked as if he were a balloon that had just been popped with a pin. He, along with everyone else, had been taken in bigtime with Bob's carefully contrived charade.

The theme of Bob's speech was about relationships--social and business intercourse--rather than sexual intercourse. He talked about the art of communicating with each other and how important it is to convey correctly the meaning that is intended. He made the point that when he shouted "intercourse" we assumed he meant sexual intercourse, which wasn't the case at all since the word intercourse has many meanings depending on the full context in which it is used.

It was a superb speech. It was provocative--one that was long remembered and talked about for many years. When Bob concluded his speech, he was given a standing ovation, and the club president adjourned the meeting on a happy note. George hastily called a post-meeting party in his basement, and for the rest of the evening he was subdued and not his old self. But he did manage to tell Bob, "You sure fooled me. It was a hell of an act, but God dammit, don't ever do that to me again!"

from The Tractor Builders by john d. culbertson



i drove one of these during a summer job with the company in the 1960s. learned to plow--fun!

but dingus, really, on topic?
Gary

climber
"My god - it's full of stars!"
Jul 28, 2012 - 01:15pm PT
Old saying is true, you really can't ever go home again...it's all gone...the people, the places, all the unique things.

Yep. We had one of those bridges, too. Built in 1890 it crossed Bluegrass Creek on Heckel Road. The bridge is gone, as well as most of the cool places it led to, replaced by I-164.

Me and the dogs had a lot of fun on Bluegrass Creek, BITD.

One old guy on our school bus route didn't believe in tractors. Mid-'60s and he still had a pair of massive draft horses. He did farm a small parcel, but it was really quite a sight.

I was visiting back home in the '80s around the time of the farm crisis and farm-Aid and all that. I asked my Dad about all that, thinking he'd be sympathetic to the farmers, seeing how "farm hand" was listed as occupation on his army records.

Wrong! He thought it was all their fault, buying those fancy tractors with air-conditioning and tape players!

Tony, I've seen an Oliver before. Nice story.
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Jul 28, 2012 - 08:56pm PT
Pa spreading sh#t with our Farmall.Me working firewood about 78? with the Ford 800 or 850?That's our sugar shack by the horseOur neighbor George walker with his Farmall H 1965some of our critters, about 1968
GhoulweJ

Trad climber
El Dorado Hills, CA
Jul 28, 2012 - 09:57pm PT
I make a living supplying parts for all these tractor... Those old ones and the new ones.
Nice to see these machines getting some attention.
The Ford N series changed the fabric of this nation.
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Jul 28, 2012 - 10:08pm PT
Can you tell what model my Ford was? Obviously it had a fancy new seat on it but it was pretty old 35 years ago.
GhoulweJ

Trad climber
El Dorado Hills, CA
Jul 28, 2012 - 10:20pm PT
Looks like a 601 Workmaster
If U get me the serial number (By the starter), I can tell you all about it.
justthemaid

climber
Jim Henson's Basement
Jul 29, 2012 - 12:32am PT
Cool stories everyone. I'm loving this quirky thread.

I recently had a pile of B&w old family photos dumped on me. My okie relatives from Kansas were all farmers. Included in the pile was the original patents with photos for some farming equipment they invented. I'll scan and post later. Pretty cool stuff.

Here's a little tractor story. Excerpt from a (true) story I wrote about growing up next to our neighbor "Cowboy Dave" as a kid:


The Old Backhoe.

The old backhoe sat quietly (or not so quietly) rusting in Cowboy Dave's horse pasture. It was one of those small- types and had been yellow at one point, but most of the paint had worn away. Once a year, Dave would attempt (not always with success) to fire up the old girl so he could drag around an antiquated disc-plow-thing to stave off the fire marshals. The broken down rusting heap was often left sitting close to our fence line for years, much to the irritation of my parents who found the backhoe to be an eyesore- especially when you added in its companions...the dead pincusioned speedboat ( also deposited in the middle of the pasture) with it's neighboring piles of hoarded old barbed wire.

Getting the backhoe running was always a lengthy ordeal. Cowboy Dave was no mechanic, and would be standing in the field all day, sweating through his cowboy uniform. There was much fussing with tools and grease, and bailing wire- lots of bailing wire. Using a toxic concoction of carb fluid and gasoline, and god knows what else, the engine would eventually fire. The entire canyon was painfully aware when the backhoe came back to life. It was always the same unbelievably loud BAM echoing through the hills followed by uneven rumbling and an ENORMOUS black column of smoke rising through the air. I always found it remarkable that such a small vehicle could create so much noise and pollution. In peak operating condition, the backhoe would break down 2 or 3 times a day, and the whole process would repeat itself...








TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Jul 29, 2012 - 12:47am PT
"we stand behind all our products ... except the manure spreaders."

My best friend in my freshman year of college was a farm kid from Iowa who like many worked in the winter in a small town shop that made farm implements.

Don't remember the brand name any more, but he worked for an outfit that made a side unloading manure spreader.

Their slogan was of course,

We stand behind our product!
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Jul 29, 2012 - 06:30am PT
Don't have that tractor anymore. Both parent's gone many years ago...
steveA

Trad climber
bedford,massachusetts
Jul 29, 2012 - 08:56am PT
My Ford 8N tractor was responsible for the house I'm sitting, ( with a little effort on my part).
I started logging a 60 acre timber track, on the side of a small mountain in N.H., in 1970, right out of Vietnam.
I can't tell you how many times I almost tipped that rig over while pulling a big log,( for Eastern standards).
That little tractor could pull an oak log
measuring 18-24 inches in diameter X 30ft. long, out of the woods, as long as you weren't going uphill.
The clutch plate was smooth steel, and real slippery when wet. When pulling a real big log, I had to be real careful to keep my foot on the clutch, while steering with the brakes, since the front end was off the ground at times.
You had to react REAL fast, if you hung up, since the front end goes up and over damn fast because of those big wheels churning. Almost as nerve racking as a long A4 pitch.
I'm very fond of that 8N, which took much abuse, from me. I made all the beams for my timber frame house in the woods with a Jonsered chain saw. Since the 4 sides of the log were removed, and discarded, the resulting beam, was in some cases, half the weight, of the original log.
Nevertheless; I have one beam, in Oak, measuring 12X14 by 24 ft. long. I weighed it, before putting it up. after drying it for 20 years, under cover, ( I'm not lying). It tipped out at 2400 pounds!
I'm diverging off the subject, but that little 8N, can pull like hell, and I'm still logging occasionally with it.




Tony Bird

climber
Northridge, CA
Jul 29, 2012 - 09:26am PT
okay, i'll bring this thread back on topic.

i took the tour of the desert queen ranch last year. the guide was a ranger who had grown up on a ranch in colorado--i forget his name, but he was the ideal guide, offering insights into the resourcefulness of the keys family that only someone who had lived that life could know about.

bill keys basically inherited hidden valley from an outlaw, the kindlier of the mchaney brothers, who wound up spending his old age there--unlike his brother, who landed in the pen. keys took care of the fellow during his last days--you can see the outline of the shack on the backside of indian wave boulder.

keys's strategy for making a living on desert queen was many-faceted--mining, ranching, hunting and foraging, farming (some of his fruit trees still survive), and tourist cabins. the only gold he missed was the rock climbing. the ranch site, back in the wonderland and only accessible with a tour appointment, remains close to the way the family left it, just a bit worse for weathering. there is a large area which can best be described as a well-organized open-air parts warehouse--everything you need to get a tractor running.

our guide pointed out a giant diamond reo truck, 1930s vintage, which he said keys picked up for free out in the desert after it was abandoned stuck by the county highway department. it looked like it hadn't run in decades, but he said he was surprised a few years ago to find it parked about 200 yards from where he had seen it the week before. he learned that willis keys, just for the fun of it, had shown up with a few quarts of oil and a can of gas, picked some spark plugs out of the parts collection and got it going--something to do on a sunday afternoon.

take that tour if you're a josh regular--well worth a half day off from climbing. and willis's book, growing up on the desert queen ranch, available at the visitor's center, offers a lot more of the colorful history.


cowboys! off topic?

pud

climber
Sportbikeville & Yucca brevifolia
Jul 29, 2012 - 09:28am PT
berghold

Trad climber
Calistoga
Jul 29, 2012 - 10:32am PT
whitey1

climber
california
Jul 29, 2012 - 11:48am PT
International Farm-All nick named Mr. Thirsty
klk

Trad climber
cali
Jul 29, 2012 - 12:57pm PT
You just have to have the time and patience to suss them out.

or scuba gear.

many of the magic places of my childhood are now buried under jillions of acre-feet of reservoir.


god knows how many old farmalls and fords are rusting away down there.
Marlow

Sport climber
OSLO
Jul 29, 2012 - 05:01pm PT
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paranoid-android

climber
Jul 29, 2012 - 05:55pm PT
All your tractor are belong to me!

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KlimbIn

climber
Jul 29, 2012 - 06:47pm PT

Today on my bike ride I saw this burned out tractor. The hay baler must have started it. Wasn't there a couple three weeks ago.

OR

Trad climber
Jul 29, 2012 - 07:44pm PT

I know, it's not officially a tractor but it was classified as one in the UK back in the day. It has a front and rear PTO and all sorts of farm equipment could be ordered and run off it. The man I bought it from said he used to run a haybailer off the rear PTO.
jogill

climber
Colorado
Jul 29, 2012 - 09:18pm PT

I bet my wife $5 her brother-in-law in Iowa didn't buy a Lamborghini tractor, confident that that company made only cars and trucks.

Lost.


;>(
guido

Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
Jul 29, 2012 - 09:21pm PT
Bogged down in NZ again.
GhoulweJ

Trad climber
El Dorado Hills, CA
Jul 29, 2012 - 09:28pm PT
Porsche made tractors too.
Tony Bird

climber
Northridge, CA
Jul 30, 2012 - 06:25am PT
seems kind of a sideways thread, dingus. might be okay to stand behind it.

stand clear of that shaft crank if you try to start that cat, TT.

that's as close as anyone has seen guido doing work since he built his boat.

i just saw a movie that told me colorado is a rich state--what a surprise. lamborghinis are well and good, but wouldn't you rather have a red ferrari?
klk

Trad climber
cali
Jul 30, 2012 - 12:19pm PT
ok, that lamborghini is gorgeous. sort of a like a modern version of the old ford we had.

Elcapinyoazz

Social climber
Joshua Tree
Jul 30, 2012 - 01:05pm PT
Lambo built tractors long before they ever built a car. Started tractors right after the war and didn't build any cars until the early 60s.
jstan

climber
Jul 30, 2012 - 01:09pm PT
That rubber looks really good, Joe. Dig it out and rebuild it.
Marlow

Sport climber
OSLO
Jul 30, 2012 - 01:30pm PT
BM Volvo 400 1968 mod. tractor
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These ones were also called tractors for all their solidity: Gammal Volvo Amazon och Volvo PV. Some of the PV drivers are now using rollator when walking. A lovely attitude. The Swedish comment "Så här är det nog i himelen" means "This must be how it is in heaven"

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Mighty Hiker

climber
Vancouver, B.C.
Aug 5, 2012 - 01:47am PT
A slightly earlier piece of farm equipment.
Karl Baba

Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
Aug 5, 2012 - 02:19am PT
Funny, when I try to load the second and third pages of this thread Google chrome sez

www.supertopo.com contains content from www.crownequipmentmaine.com, a site known to distribute malware. Your computer might catch a virus if you visit this site.

Sure it's nothing but ?
Minerals

Social climber
The Deli
Aug 5, 2012 - 05:25pm PT
Vermont farmer in tractor crushes seven police cars

A farmer in the US state of Vermont who was facing a minor drugs charge is now in more serious trouble after driving a tractor over seven police cars.

Roger Pion crushed the county sheriff's cruisers on Thursday before making his getaway on the farm vehicle.

The 34-year-old was stopped by police in Newport city, northern Vermont, not far from the crime scene.

Sheriff's deputies were unaware of the destruction in their department car park until a resident called 911.

'Monster jam rally'

Orleans County Sheriff Kirk Martin said they were initially unable to give chase as their cars had been wrecked.

No-one was injured in the incident.

Rene Morris, who saw the crash, told a local news station: "I felt like I was in a monster jam rally or something.

"I just couldn't believe it, just backing up going over it, turns around makes his way to the other vehicles smashes those up."

Mr Pion was detained last month accused of resisting arrest and marijuana possession, said police.

He was in custody on Thursday evening, facing a number of additional charges.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-19112837

LOL…
Rokrover

Trad climber
SB, CA
Aug 5, 2012 - 06:09pm PT
An early Case: I'm a steam guy myself. Back in the olde country we called these traction engines. Just throw a long leather belt on that flywheel and you could thresh a whole mess of wheat. Not practical to plow the field, though. Steam power was best for pulling torque but not practical for quick startup. These days you need boiler certification before she blows and takes out a crowd of innocent bystanders. The good old days when machines had personality and practical function.

Mighty Hiker

climber
Vancouver, B.C.
Aug 6, 2012 - 12:46am PT
OK, here's another one, a pretty hot unit. Something to get Dingus' attention on Monday morning, see how his thread has been cherished.
Gary

climber
"My god - it's full of stars!"
Aug 6, 2012 - 11:19am PT
MH, that is a hot unit.

A friend has been to this and said it was great!
http://www.antiquefarmshow.org/index.htm
Marlow

Sport climber
OSLO
Aug 6, 2012 - 12:14pm PT
Around 1970-75 Belarus tractors were imported and sold by a local salesman at the place where I grew up. People from the whole area came to see the tractors. Here is one from the same period of time being restored (not a local one).

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Marlow

Sport climber
OSLO
Aug 7, 2012 - 01:56pm PT
Varalöv, Sweden

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tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Aug 13, 2012 - 06:36pm PT
Was up @ my sisters dairy farm this weekend for her anual redneck party/cornroast. I play three sets in the pole barn and we have a 5 piece country band as well. Roast 500lbs of beef and a huge potluck. BYOB and roughly 500 people show up.. No matter that there is a big party you better kick you hangover in the ass and get back to work the next morening@ 4:00 am.. there was haying to do on sunday so I got a few shots of some of the tractors. Holy crap they got a lot of tractors.
HighTraverse

Trad climber
Bay Area
Aug 13, 2012 - 06:51pm PT
Riverton, Wyoming, two weeks ago. I didn't mind the travel interruption at all.
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Aug 13, 2012 - 07:11pm PT
A few more tractor shots from my sisters farm.
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Aug 13, 2012 - 08:50pm PT
Andrew Laggis cutting with the JD4840
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Aug 13, 2012 - 09:28pm PT
Thanks DMT it is a bit mind boggeling how many tractors my sister has. it is a special place up there.. Don't get up there as much as I should. then again they don't have much time for socializeing and you feel guilty unless you are working......
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Aug 13, 2012 - 09:41pm PT
I was not totally usless out there while I was shooting photos.. I hitched up the kite rake.. then I slunk back to the house and hung out on the porch with the rest of the slackers... At least I was not hungover;)
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Aug 13, 2012 - 09:56pm PT
I think this is the last one of their tractors not counting the bobcat and the big front end loader? annother big one, JD7710 hitched up to a sh#t spreader last thanksgiveing.
John M

climber
Aug 13, 2012 - 10:13pm PT
Wow Tradman.. Is that your sister standing behind the tractor? I hope that you don't mind my saying, but she is a full on hottie.

I spent a few hours in a tractor. Mostly working orchards. Avocados, oranges, lemons, grapefruit.

There are a lot of things I liked about working on a farm but one or two that I didn't. :-)

My boss use to take us water skiing before work. Hit the lake at sunrise. Waterski for a couple of hours and then go work 10 more.

Cool thread..
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Aug 13, 2012 - 10:27pm PT
The hottie is Isabella, My Climbing partner for the last 14 years and former GF....
jbaker

Trad climber
Redwood City, CA
Aug 13, 2012 - 11:54pm PT
The Tractor and Farm Museum in Bristol has a really nice collection.
rottingjohnny

Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
Aug 14, 2012 - 12:40am PT
She looks like she's been baling hay by hand , not tractor....
Woody the Beaver

Trad climber
Soldier, Idaho
Aug 21, 2012 - 01:46pm PT
This photo shows my son Jeff using our '79 Mitsubishi to help rig his experimental campus board.
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Sep 2, 2012 - 07:14pm PT
1970's International laying down the 3rd cut near Woodstock VT last week.
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Sep 2, 2012 - 08:17pm PT
Sweet!
perswig

climber
Sep 15, 2012 - 06:35am PT












Bump.
Dale

tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Sep 15, 2012 - 09:09pm PT
Sweet!
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Sep 15, 2012 - 10:44pm PT
More to come when i get the time....
perswig

climber
Sep 16, 2012 - 08:13pm PT
^^
Get the time, man, get the time...






Dale

jopay

climber
so.il
Sep 17, 2012 - 06:59am PT
Cool thread enjoyed all the pictures. The one of the small bulldozer in France reminds me of the day an old partner and I were bushwhacking into a new area we had found on a topo, and there sitting in a field abandoned was the smallest bulldozer I had ever seen, upon close inspection it had lifting hooks at the corners and a military nomenclature tag that mentioned airborne something or other. I still think I should have tried tracking down the owner what a cool thing to restore, I think the tag mentioned being made in Wisconsin, anybody know about these?
Marlow

Sport climber
OSLO
Sep 17, 2012 - 07:05am PT
Small Tractor Blues
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Utilitor, Midwest Engine Company of Indianapolis.

The owner is driving the tractor from 5:18.
ladyscarlett

Trad climber
SF Bay Area, California
Sep 17, 2012 - 03:48pm PT
http://www.scottlondon.com/photo/burningman2012/018.html
A city girl myself, this is the first tractor I got to ride. Full bar and working kitchen. They were serving chili one night!

Eh, I'll learn the real ways soon enough...

Cheers

LS
perswig

climber
Sep 17, 2012 - 08:26pm PT
For those who don't frequent the 'What song...' thread, Marlow's post above links other great examples of farm machinery as rhythm section.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDHzK3Xe7Yw&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqatMdB5vu4&feature=player_detailpage

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ffsF_aMatw&feature=related

Dale
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Sep 17, 2012 - 09:35pm PT
Who exactly came up with the name for the Cockshutt Delux?
jstan

climber
Sep 17, 2012 - 11:30pm PT
There it is!!!!!


What's with the back rest? Makes it harder than hell to bail when the front end comes up.

PS: It's a sign of a truly great website when you see a tractor thread!!!
Karl Baba

Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
Sep 18, 2012 - 02:02am PT

Nepalese have these narrow terraced fields. Here's their tractor from 1985

Peace

Karl
Marlow

Sport climber
OSLO
Sep 19, 2012 - 01:37pm PT
[Click to View YouTube Video]
little Z

Trad climber
un cafetal en Naranjo
Sep 28, 2012 - 10:57pm PT
must have seen a hundred tractors today in the Del Monte pineapple fields. I know they are thoroughly modern versions and that most of you all are posting about older ones, but hey, a tractor is a tractor in my book. Here in Costa Rica they call a tractor a "chapulin" which means grasshopper, them things with the big hind legs. Here are 4 different makes that I could get close enough to take pictures of. They even named a tractor after our very own "Silver"




nutjob

Gym climber
Berkeley, CA
Sep 28, 2012 - 11:20pm PT
I ain't got nothing on tractors, but here's a tractor beam:
Ghost

climber
A long way from where I started
Sep 28, 2012 - 11:54pm PT
The Tractor Tavern is one of the coolest venues in Seattle. Saw the Red Elvises there a few years ago. And Pierre Bensusan. And Chris Smither.

tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Sep 29, 2012 - 10:38am PT
saw this one while shooting trail ride sat.
Marlow

Sport climber
OSLO
Sep 29, 2012 - 12:21pm PT
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Enty

Trad climber
Sep 29, 2012 - 02:08pm PT
I used to like tractors but I don't like them any more.............































I'm an ex-tractor fan.

E
Peter Haan

Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
Sep 29, 2012 - 03:25pm PT
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!!

perswig

climber
Oct 3, 2012 - 07:54pm PT
I'm kinda partial to the Minnies, too, Dingus.



















Dale
perswig

climber
Oct 4, 2012 - 03:44pm PT
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
rich sims

Social climber
co
Oct 25, 2012 - 11:28pm PT
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.
perswig

climber
Oct 27, 2012 - 08:45am PT
Imagine skidding logs out of the Maine north woods in January, sitting in the fore-end wheelhouse freezing your toes off. At least during blackfly season it's too muddy to log much, otherwise the drivers would require transfusions weekly.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bIiy9zGwtY&feature=player_embedded

Dale
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Oct 27, 2012 - 08:59am PT
This truck is my tractor. (and gear tester) Gonna be doing some serious welding after this little episode...
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Oct 28, 2012 - 07:30am PT
My neighbor Loyde is the local fix it man. he just pulled the plug on the life support for my truck. pronounced her dead.. :(
hooblie

climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
Oct 28, 2012 - 10:22am PT
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
Stewart Johnson

climber
lake forest
Oct 28, 2012 - 02:34pm PT
Mighty Hiker

climber
Vancouver, B.C.
Oct 28, 2012 - 02:59pm PT
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.
Fletcher

Trad climber
Fumbling towards stone
Oct 28, 2012 - 07:09pm PT
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
Borut

climber
french
Oct 29, 2012 - 11:56am PT
Nothing much, but I thought I'd drop by. Hello!

Great topic!


Borut
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Nov 6, 2012 - 06:06pm PT
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!
cowpoke

climber
Nov 6, 2012 - 06:17pm PT
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:
Elcapinyoazz

Social climber
Joshua Tree
Nov 6, 2012 - 06:34pm PT
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:

John M

climber
Nov 13, 2012 - 09:52pm PT
Those crazy Swedes

Burnouts, brodies and donuts

[Click to View YouTube Video]
Marlow

Sport climber
OSLO
Nov 14, 2012 - 01:42pm PT
Massey Ferguson 65
[Click to View YouTube Video]

Starting the 1909 Blitzen-Benz - http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=xMa3_tT5mKA
The "tractor" starts at 6:25.
klk

Trad climber
cali
Nov 14, 2012 - 02:55pm PT
ok the swedish turbo tractor rocks
Fletcher

Trad climber
Fumbling towards stone
Nov 14, 2012 - 03:18pm PT
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
Marlow

Sport climber
OSLO
Nov 14, 2012 - 03:24pm PT
Here's an old Gray tractor rolling in Minnesota
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Marlow

Sport climber
OSLO
Nov 15, 2012 - 04:40pm PT
[Click to View YouTube Video]
little Z

Trad climber
un cafetal en Naranjo
Nov 15, 2012 - 10:01pm PT

this is a pretty unique sort of tractor setup used for mashing down aquatic vegetation and churning up a flooded bed of mud in preparation for growing rice. When in use the thing is under water up to the axels. I'll try to get photos of one on the job tomorrow. Got here too late today - the sun was going down...


oops, thread drift
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Nov 15, 2012 - 10:10pm PT
It's built on an old Ford.
Bad Climber

climber
Nov 15, 2012 - 10:20pm PT
What a funny, weird, wonderful thread for a climbing site! My main connection with tractors was the 2007 Gibsonburg,Ohio, classic tractor show. I was cycling solo cross country and stumbled into it at the end of the Labor Day weekend. It was cool to see all that old hardware. Some photos here.

BAd
Tobia

Social climber
Denial
Nov 15, 2012 - 10:34pm PT
Part of a young buck's passage to manhood; learning to tractor. My nephew, on my 1974 JD1530

Neighbor on Kubota, a newer tractor.

Other tractors (of sort).

Another nephew, another tractor, Mack Ch613. (1995)
younger nephew
They loved the air horns.

Biggest "tractor" I ever handled, a Lorain 50 Ton "Moto" Crane. I went to the factory and drove it home ( to a local construction company). The paint was still wet (literally) when I left the lot in Tenn. (1979)
210' hydraulic boom with jig installed.
little Z

Trad climber
un cafetal en Naranjo
Nov 16, 2012 - 09:28pm PT
Tobia, what a monster that crane is, seeing one of those things always reminds me of that killer chase scene in the 3rd Terminator movie.

so here's some shots of those mucking tactors in action




these tractors mash everything in their path including lots of little critters and so there are always birds around coming to snag a moist, mashed, morsel (in this case the birds are Great, Snowy, and Cattle Egrets, Little Blue Herons, and Great-tailed Grackles).


mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Nov 17, 2012 - 10:45pm PT
Fletcher

Trad climber
Fumbling towards stone
Nov 20, 2012 - 03:13am PT
Tobia was thinking the same thing as me upthread.

Me at five. We were moving from Wheaton, Illinois back to Massachusetts. No one noticed I was driving the rig until I got to Ohio!


Eric
Tobia

Social climber
Denial
Nov 20, 2012 - 06:06am PT
Eric that looks like an old frieghtliner or International, I can't tell with the door open. Early 60's, cab-over type. Cab-overs were popular during late sixties through late eighties; but conventional type rigs came back due to safety, noise and other problems. Driving one is a strange ordeal; especially if you are usually in a conventional.

I think cab-overs are a thing of the past now; like a lot of the tractors on this thread.

My first cab-over experience that I can remember: talking the YPCC truck drivers into letting me jockey their trucks around the YPCC warehouse. I had to show them my CDL before making a bet that I could dock it, drop and hook to another trailer.
perswig

climber
Nov 20, 2012 - 08:19am PT
Sweet additions.
Little z's mudder rigs look like steamship paddlewheels.
I like the b/w Ford in Fletcher's pic - running on tubes?
In BAd's link, looks like a Minnie? and the third grill showing below might be another Cockshutt?

Dig it.
Dale
jstan

climber
Nov 20, 2012 - 11:04am PT
Anyone here with experience on the Kubota L2550? Is this a tractor or a big toy? I will be using mainly the loader but the back hoe will be very good also. 27 horse. Grading and footings in sand. No 12 bottom plowing or any plowing for that matter. Might want to rig a grading blade. Thinking in sand a little urban machine is about right.
Fletcher

Trad climber
Fumbling towards stone
Nov 20, 2012 - 04:19pm PT
Yeah, Tobia, I'm not an expert on cab-overs, but my brother's were, so they are on my radar (one of those brothers is in that photo). Back in the 70's they were totally into tractor trailers. This was also in the era or CW McCall's "Convoy." I think that played a role in this. Anyhow, they took a trip from Massachusetts by car to New Orleans with my Mom. Their car "game" was to count and identify (pretty specifically) all the trucks they saw.

Needless to say, they saw a lot!

[Click to View YouTube Video]

Eric
Mighty Hiker

climber
Vancouver, B.C.
Nov 20, 2012 - 07:42pm PT
What a funny, weird, wonderful thread for a climbing site!

Yup. Someone come from away (Newf expression) might think it a bit odd.
Mighty Hiker

climber
Vancouver, B.C.
Nov 20, 2012 - 07:46pm PT
A mathemagician friend once insisted to me that there's no such thing as an "odd" number. He said that some numbers simply have more interesting properties than others. As he had a doctorate in math, I was willing to take his word for it.

Lawyers, when wanting to make such a reference, say "numbers not evenly divisible by two".
Tobia

Social climber
Denial
Nov 20, 2012 - 09:33pm PT
I used this B2100 Kubota on an geological dig. There wasn't much it couldn't do; it just took a little longer to get it done. I moved tons of overburden, shale and dug a decent trench with it in some hard clay. Kubotas are good machines.
klk

Trad climber
cali
Nov 20, 2012 - 10:56pm PT
jstan, if you get one, you hafta let me drive it!

Tobia

Social climber
Denial
Nov 21, 2012 - 11:27am PT
My 1974 JDeere was built in West Germany. JDeere took over-stocked major components of other models and designed a tractor to utilize them.
It's a 3 cylinder 43 h.p. agricultural tractor. It wasn't in production for long. They made a 830; following the same formula.

I hate to hear that about Kubota moving to China. I wonder if they have been bought out, going after cheap labor or just trying to increase output. They make fine machines and have been for the past 25 years. The price is right; especially on parts. J Deere parts are ridiculously priced! Although my tractor is well built, things wear out.

Worst part is it is only 2 wheel drive; whereas modern tractors are 4 wheel drive.

I had a 1974 JDeere 310 backhoe that was a well built machine also.

I am going to my neighbor's house to take some pics of his antique truck and tractor collection. My favorites: 1948 Ford dump body and a 1961 B-Model Mack. He has restored them from the ground up.

Case is history, correct?

Interesting website for machine heads:
http://archives.hcea.net/index.php?p=collections/collections
Tobia

Social climber
Denial
Nov 21, 2012 - 07:00pm PT
I didn't know New Holland merged with anyone; other than Ford.

Ford and New Holland were good farm tractors. A lot 1960's-90's models are still at it. Who knows how many 8-N's are still running (pre-1960). There are 3 within 2 miles of my place.

Zephyr still around? They aren't big in the south; but I used to run one for a herbicide company. It seemed like a decent tractor.

I can't find where Kubota moved production to China; but I did discover Kubota has two factories in GA for assembling tractors and manufacturing ATV's and other yard machines.

happiegrrrl

Trad climber
www.climbaddictdesigns.com
Nov 21, 2012 - 07:15pm PT
Back in Kentucky, I accidentally missed a turn and ended up on a wavy, one-lane road that just went on, and, on and on.... There were houses pretty regularly spaced apart, and three churches in this dozen miles I kept going on... It was Sunday and they each were holding services.

FINALLY, I see a sign telling me about the road. It says "No Outlet - Road Ends In Water." It was a public fishin' spot.

But, there was also this fine old tractor sitting on the side of the field.

jstan

climber
Nov 21, 2012 - 08:14pm PT
I looked up the history on Farmall. I can't believe our first Farmall A was only five or six years old when we got it. It looked exactly the same when we sold it 40 years later.

Here it has the row cultivator on it. Before I was full growed I had 130 times the power I have now. Damn! It really has been all downhill.

A D8.

Definitely.

A D8.

Tobia

Social climber
Denial
Nov 21, 2012 - 09:41pm PT
Khanom,
I figured that is what you meant. I remember the first kubota I saw. The state of Mississippi bought boat load of them to mow the right of ways with. I had to get out of the car and look at one; maybe 1980 or so.

Here's a strange configuration for a tractor used in South Georgia to haul long leaf pine and cypress out of the bottoms:


tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Nov 22, 2012 - 07:49am PT
My neighbor Loyde with his home made Doodle Bug. The rear end is a chopped down suburban. The front end and stearing box/ collum out of a toyota. the motor and tranny are a model T Ford. The hydralics run off of a dump truck power steering pump. the man is genius and a damn good neighbor.
little Z

Trad climber
un cafetal en Naranjo
Nov 22, 2012 - 02:25pm PT
wow, great stuff, both the photos and stories. Seems like a lot folks are back home for turkey day, back where there are tractors a plenty.

Been seeing about 100 tractor an hour out here in the land of big agriculture. Yesterday missed getting some shots of real cool ones with these tall (like 8 feet) super thin wheels that they use in rice fields, however when I went to snap a photo there was no photo card in my camera. Left it in the computer.

Did get this monster today, on its way to level a field for sugar cane planting.

perswig

climber
Nov 23, 2012 - 07:47pm PT
Your neighbor's rig is pretty cool, Nick.


Dale
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Nov 24, 2012 - 09:16am PT
Thanksgiveing at my sisters farm.
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Nov 24, 2012 - 02:09pm PT
just does not seem right without snow...
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Nov 24, 2012 - 07:12pm PT
My brother's toy out in Merced Falls.
perswig

climber
Nov 25, 2012 - 09:42pm PT
Winery and tractor.
Check.

Weird forklift/bomb disposal unit combo.
Check.

Dale
perswig

climber
Dec 9, 2012 - 08:06am PT
Quick pic of this workaday rig on the way to T-giving.


Also, just scored this in the sale corner of a local bookstore.


Envy at will.
Dale

(Khanom - sorry; I missed your Irving reference before; I had vague rememberances of reading about a logging tractor, but I was thinking something by Carolyn Chute. Good reminder to go back and re-read some Irving. Thanks!)
zBrown

Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
Dec 12, 2012 - 06:35pm PT

zBrown

Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
Dec 13, 2012 - 05:47pm PT


[Click to View YouTube Video]
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Dec 14, 2012 - 07:10pm PT
In Case you didn't know, Merced has an agriculture museum, located on Highway 140.
http://www.museumsusa.org/museums/info/1153185

MOSSBACK FARMERS RULE!

Rock!...oopsie.

Trad climber
the pitch above you
Dec 14, 2012 - 09:44pm PT
J Forensic Sci. 1993 Mar;38(2):359-64.
Autoerotic fatalities with power hydraulics.
O'Halloran RL, Dietz PE.
Source
Ventura County Medical Examiner Office, CA.
Abstract
We report two cases in which men used the hydraulic shovels on tractors to suspend themselves for masochistic sexual stimulation. One man developed a romantic attachment to a tractor, even giving it a name and writing poetry in its honor. He died accidentally while intentionally asphyxiating himself through suspension by the neck, leaving clues that he enjoyed perceptual distortions during asphyxiation. The other man engaged in sexual bondage and transvestic fetishism, but did not purposely asphyxiate himself. He died when accidentally pinned to the ground under a shovel after intentionally suspending himself by the ankles. We compare these cases with other autoerotic fatalities involving perceptual distortion, cross-dressing, machinery, and postural asphyxiation by chest compression.
Captain...or Skully

climber
Dec 14, 2012 - 09:47pm PT
[Click to View YouTube Video]
perswig

climber
Dec 15, 2012 - 07:57pm PT
That was awesome, Skully!

Dale
Captain...or Skully

climber
Dec 16, 2012 - 08:54am PT
Some of those Russians are a never say die bunch, huh?
zBrown

Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
Dec 16, 2012 - 12:40pm PT




Should give credit to Soni Honegger

see the whole show here

http://www.chamasteam.com/images/080226soni/web/pages/image000.html
Fletcher

Trad climber
The rock doesn't care what I think
Dec 16, 2012 - 02:37pm PT
That is tenacity, Skully!

Here's another where a helping hand from a gentle giant was needed:

[Click to View YouTube Video]

Eric
Marlow

Sport climber
OSLO
Dec 16, 2012 - 03:23pm PT
[Click to View YouTube Video]
With a little help.
Mighty Hiker

climber
Vancouver, B.C.
Dec 21, 2012 - 12:26pm PT
Just popped up.
perswig

climber
Dec 23, 2012 - 08:07pm PT
A push-me/pull-you.





And an old skidder, still willing.



Merry Christmas, Dingus, and the rest of you tractor folk.
Dale
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Dec 26, 2012 - 07:07pm PT
Christmas up @ my sisters farm..
jstan

climber
Dec 26, 2012 - 10:58pm PT
Boy! I could use a hundred yards of that Russian mud.

Delivered, mind you.
Fletcher

Trad climber
The great state of advaita
Jan 1, 2013 - 12:54pm PT
Major cool old tractors on the Rose Parade as I type!

Eric
The Larry

climber
Moab, UT
Jan 1, 2013 - 01:59pm PT
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Jan 1, 2013 - 02:16pm PT
Nice one larry. dale as always pulls through with the old iron.
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Jan 4, 2013 - 09:53pm PT
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Jan 7, 2013 - 02:57am PT
Another Bucyrus Erie, not the backyard version.
perswig

climber
Jan 22, 2013 - 09:20pm PT
On the way to some ice, stopped to see this ...



... and saw this tucked in the corner of the dooryard.


A cool old Oliver dozer.
Dale
perswig

climber
Feb 8, 2013 - 03:56pm PT

Dale
Marlow

Sport climber
OSLO
Feb 8, 2013 - 04:19pm PT
Ford Car Tractor
[Click to View YouTube Video]
perswig

climber
Apr 7, 2013 - 06:13pm PT
Snow's gone, mud season almost never was, and I've been keeping an eye out for backyard metal.










Some lift rigs. 1950s? Pettibone and a '70s Lull with a chaindrive hoist.





Along with the obligatory Deere and a nice sturdy Oliver.



Whoa.

Too much?
Dale
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Apr 7, 2013 - 08:39pm PT
Nice! i like the shot of the old Chevy pickup in the background.
perswig

climber
Apr 8, 2013 - 06:42pm PT
Since it's just you an' me here, Nick...



...couple of trucks you'd like...
...and a last tractor, for the moment.



Dale

Captain...or Skully

climber
Apr 8, 2013 - 07:07pm PT
I used to haul around a couple of those old pettibones, Dale. Those were serious death rigs. They ran, though. No extras, like brakes, though. ;-)
Brandon-

climber
The Granite State.
Apr 8, 2013 - 07:17pm PT
I've been seeing some really nice old tractors in my travels lately. I'll make a point of keeping a camera with me in the future.

NH is rife with them.
GhoulweJ

Trad climber
El Dorado Hills, CA
Apr 8, 2013 - 07:20pm PT
GhoulweJ

Trad climber
El Dorado Hills, CA
Apr 8, 2013 - 07:43pm PT


perswig

climber
Apr 9, 2013 - 08:09pm PT
GhoulweJ, that Farmall is pimped!
We've also got a couple 8N's around here, show up at the usual fairs - sturdy little fellas.

Skully! The guy with Pettibone and Lull says the last owner of the Petti used it to move cars around a junkyard - that kinda cantilever action up high on a 4-wheel turning rig sounds skeeeetchy.

Brandon-, the potential for ending up in a ditch rubbernecking for old rigs is about the same as eyeballing for ice flows early season. Be careful and post yer pics.

Dale
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Apr 9, 2013 - 08:42pm PT

There is a Pop Laval photo I've always liked of Henry Ford in Fresno in 1916, visiting J.C. Forkner.
http://www.poplavalfoundation.org/shop/product.php?productid=16404&cat=0&page=39
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Apr 28, 2013 - 01:40pm PT
Springtime in VT
Fletcher

Trad climber
The great state of advaita
Apr 28, 2013 - 01:51pm PT
Spreading poo... love it... feeding the earth!

Springtime and a young man's heart turns to... tractors!

Eric
Marlow

Sport climber
OSLO
Apr 28, 2013 - 02:09pm PT
Massey Ferguson history
[Click to View YouTube Video]
[Click to View YouTube Video]
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
May 21, 2013 - 08:27pm PT
The green tractor is listening to Mauro Giuliani's Sonata Eroica on his MP3. Mozart's even with him--it's my perspective.Child's play into work.
perswig

climber
May 26, 2013 - 08:15pm PT





Dale
perswig

climber
Jun 3, 2013 - 07:56pm PT
Turns out time on the bike is good for spotting hidden hulks of rust.
Saw this tucked behind some shipping containers as I was fighting a headwind toward Friendship.




There's also a dozer rig that might be an ancient Oliver on the same stretch of road, but it sits behind a No Trespassing sign, and in Friendship ignoring one of those may mean meeting an unruly dog or a shotgun, so that one may wait.
Dale
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Jun 3, 2013 - 08:46pm PT
Nice. Prolly see some tractors the weekend of the 15th. going up to my sisters. hear they got a new big one...
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Jun 4, 2013 - 10:25pm PT
I stole this shot from my nephues facebook. this is how Dan drove his date to the prom! Daniel is a Big Tall kid BTW..
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Jun 4, 2013 - 10:32pm PT
I like the older tractors but i am sure this new one made quite the impression on his date. probly has a kick butt stereo in it as well.
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Jun 4, 2013 - 10:42pm PT
Damn, i must be getting old...
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Jun 8, 2013 - 07:41am PT
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Jun 11, 2013 - 02:40am PT
I love a parade!
perswig

climber
Jun 14, 2013 - 10:24am PT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ilvy1tT-HI
Love Tractor

I'm bouncing in my seat
Trying to remember where all the levers are...

Dale
Fletcher

Trad climber
The great state of advaita
Jun 14, 2013 - 08:13pm PT
This thread has some old tractors, but it never gets old to me. Love this stuff!

Mouse, when were you in Idylwild?

Eric
Sir Donald

Trad climber
Denver, CO
Jun 14, 2013 - 11:10pm PT
[photoid=306863]
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Jun 16, 2013 - 07:59pm PT
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Jun 16, 2013 - 08:06pm PT
My nephue raking on a 1982 JD a few years ago.
martygarrison

Trad climber
Washington DC
Jun 16, 2013 - 10:56pm PT
My Grandfather had a large dairy in Modesto. As kids we used to spend every weekend at the farm. For cleaning the corrals Grandpa would use little Ford tractors like this,


For larger work Grandpa was always an Alis Chalmers man and used tractors like this,



He would teach us to drive them as young kids and pay us to do discing as we got older. Great way to grow up.

Marlow

Sport climber
OSLO
Jun 17, 2013 - 01:03pm PT
Tractor cruising, Säter, Sweden 2009
[Click to View YouTube Video]
The tractor song: I wanna drive your tractor (Danish, parody)
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Marlow

Sport climber
OSLO
Jun 17, 2013 - 02:55pm PT
My best wishes for the HunkVarna! :o)

OT: Simo Lampinen shows his Saab V4 1970ies rally car (from The Saab Festival 2013)
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Tobia

Social climber
Denial
Jun 17, 2013 - 04:04pm PT
Seven months later; but I finally took some pics of my neighbor's restored John Deere tractors:

John Deere General Purpose 1929 year model 23 of these were built. The tricycle design was copied to compete with Farmall.
gas,2 cylinder with horizontal pistons
John Deere B Model 1938 year model gas, 2 cylinder with horizontal pistons
John Deere 420 1958 year model, gas, 2 cylinder with vertical pistons
Check out the lights!



Tobia

Social climber
Denial
Jun 17, 2013 - 04:17pm PT
Some other toys of Mr. Livingston. All of these he restored himself. The Mack he uses to haul the tractors to shows and parades. This man is 74 years young tomorrow! He can drive the Mack like a Toyota Tacoma; if you have ever operated a Duplex transmission you would appreciate that fact.


My favorite:


I got to drive the Mack as soon as the paint dried. I wish I had a picture of when he hauled it in before the restoration, it came in on two trailers.

We used an old B Model for a pullout truck when logging; but it never looked like this one.


The old Ford is a work in progress. It has U.S. Army truck bed on it that is coming off for an original flatbed. The driver's seat is mounted on top of the gas tank. That is the way they did it in the 40's.


Shifting a duplex in an old B Model (this is a quad 20 speed vs duplex 10speed) but it's the same game. It's easier to shift without the clutch!
[Click to View YouTube Video]


mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Jun 25, 2013 - 09:15am PT
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Jun 25, 2013 - 09:20am PT
A bucket photo.
perswig

climber
Jun 27, 2013 - 05:15pm PT
Good stuff.


And BITD...

Dale
GhoulweJ

Trad climber
El Dorado Hills, CA
Jul 24, 2013 - 08:01pm PT
2 Tractors For Sale
Located in Rescue
$4,400 takes both tractors.
Massey Ferguson 40 with loader and box scraper -Runs GREAT-
Massey Ferguson 3165 stuck in gear and needs battery (I have not tried to fix it). On this tractor it is PROBABLY an easy fix (half a day or less).

We purchased these tractors in April for more than I'm asking. We did not buy a piece of property we were looking at so we no longer need them. My experience using them is limited because of the short time of ownership/property. Both are diesel. I have not tried to start the 3165 -needs a battery-. The 40 is a runner, it fires right up and runs smooth. Really, they just need to start being used. They look a bit rough because they've been sitting.

I'd like them to be gone by the end of the weekend.
Thanks.

guido

Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
Jul 24, 2013 - 11:31pm PT
goatboy smellz

climber
Nederland-GulfBreeze
Jul 24, 2013 - 11:44pm PT
I'll buy what's guido selling.
perswig

climber
Jul 25, 2013 - 03:10pm PT





Dale
Marlow

Sport climber
OSLO
Aug 2, 2013 - 11:43am PT
A McCormick-Deering at an abandoned petrol station
Tractor made in...
perswig

climber
Aug 2, 2013 - 05:35pm PT
^^ Now that's a pretty piece of metal. Those wheels remind me of a paddle steamer.
Dale
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Aug 2, 2013 - 05:47pm PT
Two weeks in Michigan and Wisconsin almost tractored me out!

I know it says "No Passing Zone" but I got out-voted.
Well, to be honest it was a flat out veto.


But these two were pretty boss...

You can see this dude was jonesing big time! He is also, obviously, a connoisseur.
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Aug 3, 2013 - 12:38pm PT
A fleet of Fords with some others mixed in, all from the same orchardist.

If you are sold on something, stick with it.

And a Ford is still cheaper than you can afford.
perswig

climber
Aug 16, 2013 - 08:48pm PT







Dale
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Aug 17, 2013 - 12:03am PT
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Aug 17, 2013 - 12:07am PT
perswig

climber
Aug 17, 2013 - 08:00am PT
^^
There's a good chance I know/knew the farm and/or owner of that rig, from maybe 20 years ago.
Dale


Oliver says to Ferguson, "If you keep your Cockshutt, you might not get a Deere John letter".
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Aug 17, 2013 - 10:45am PT
Uno mas.
Marlow

Sport climber
OSLO
Aug 24, 2013 - 02:44pm PT
The first Ferguson - the black tractor (the Irish)
[Click to View YouTube Video]
[Click to View YouTube Video]
perswig

climber
Aug 28, 2013 - 08:21pm PT
Couple of rigs, in situ for time out of mind, on my way over to North Cornflake.

Allis.

And this excellent hunk of metal that many of you NE'ers have driven by, I expect.





Dale

klk

Trad climber
cali
Sep 15, 2013 - 01:36pm PT
and for the soundtrack:

[Click to View YouTube Video]
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Sep 15, 2013 - 10:10pm PT
Fair time again:)
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Sep 16, 2013 - 09:23pm PT
Sweet!
perswig

climber
Sep 17, 2013 - 07:42pm PT



Dale
perswig

climber
Sep 17, 2013 - 07:45pm PT





Dale
perswig

climber
Sep 17, 2013 - 07:50pm PT






Dale
perswig

climber
Sep 17, 2013 - 07:54pm PT






Dale
perswig

climber
Sep 17, 2013 - 07:58pm PT





Dale
perswig

climber
Sep 17, 2013 - 08:02pm PT






Dale
perswig

climber
Sep 17, 2013 - 08:07pm PT





Dig it.
Dale
Gene

climber
Sep 17, 2013 - 08:09pm PT
Thanks, Dale!!!! Good stuff.
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Sep 18, 2013 - 03:00am PT
Dale, a pretty fair showing.

We'll crank up the Waybacker Tractor and hit the time warp. What say we pre-set for Fresno, early 20th century?

Hit it, man!

All these are taken from As Pop Saw It: Photographs of the San Joaquin Valley from the Files of Claude C. "Pop" Laval by Jerome C. Laval.

Pop rocks!
perswig

climber
Sep 18, 2013 - 09:46am PT
^^
Awesome, Mouse!
I'd love a print of that shot "Leveling the Fig Garden".

Dale


edit:

Not quite tractors

That cat is certainly a tractor in the truest sense. Nice rust find!
Rokrover

Trad climber
SB, CA
Sep 18, 2013 - 10:41am PT
Some relics now serving as the perimeter fence on a ranch off Yerba Buena Road, Santa Monica Mountains. Not quite tractors but topical enough for being in a climbing area.


mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Sep 18, 2013 - 11:45am PT
Those are very near Bob Dylan's place.
Never had the oppo to climb in there, but we always chose Tahquitz or some "better" class of rock to climb. Back when gas was cheaper...
That caterpillar is shedding.
perswig

climber
Sep 29, 2013 - 09:11pm PT


Dale
Marlow

Sport climber
OSLO
Sep 30, 2013 - 03:11pm PT
Awesome thread. You have access to an incredible amount of old tractors - Perswig's access is beyond belief...

The Ferguson TEA 20 history - BBC film
[Click to View YouTube Video]
perswig

climber
Oct 19, 2013 - 04:24am PT
^^ That little Case stole its front axle off a soapbox derby rig!





Dale
perswig

climber
Oct 19, 2013 - 04:29am PT





Dale
perswig

climber
Oct 19, 2013 - 04:40am PT
Some big boys. Three 730s, two apparently originally employed in Argentina and one from the Midwest.



I'm standing there checking out the clearances and this farm kid wanders over - we both agree it'd be pretty exciting working one of these given the topography we've got around here. Be ready to bail...!


And an aggie ATV.




Dale

damo62

Social climber
Brisbane
Oct 19, 2013 - 09:06pm PT
More pics of your JD Khanom, pleez :)
jstan

climber
Oct 20, 2013 - 12:10am PT
It is hard to believe anyone designed a tractor around the Fairbanks Morse. Our neighbors had them, And I still loved them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5BqathFN_k


Sierra Ledge Rat

Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
Oct 20, 2013 - 04:29am PT
Does this qualify as a tractor? It's the only one I own.

tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Oct 27, 2013 - 09:03pm PT
my 67 chevy K20 loading up with poop for the garden.
perswig

climber
Oct 29, 2013 - 10:43pm PT





Dale
Marlow

Sport climber
OSLO
Nov 18, 2013 - 03:26pm PT
perswig

climber
Nov 28, 2013 - 11:25am PT






Happy Thanksgiving.
Dale
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Nov 29, 2013 - 10:51pm PT
perswig

climber
Dec 8, 2013 - 10:11pm PT





Dale
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Dec 25, 2013 - 07:02pm PT
Nice Xmass lights.

My sisters farm on a very cold Christmass day 2013
perswig

climber
Dec 25, 2013 - 07:53pm PT
Peace to you and yours, Nick.
Dale
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Dec 25, 2013 - 08:36pm PT
You as well.
Nick
Marlow

Sport climber
OSLO
Dec 26, 2013 - 03:27am PT
perswig

climber
Dec 26, 2013 - 09:54pm PT

Howdy, Kath!
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Dec 29, 2013 - 10:22pm PT
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Dec 29, 2013 - 11:17pm PT
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Dec 30, 2013 - 07:30pm PT

Run by alternate fuel source
perswig

climber
Jan 1, 2014 - 12:32pm PT



Dale

edit: Mel and Mare shore have some sweet rides! (Mouse, with apologies to all those Minnie-Molines, that Allis is one of the prettiest rigs I've ever seen. Thanks!)

TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Jan 13, 2014 - 10:24pm PT
[Click to View YouTube Video]
speelyei

Trad climber
Mohave County Arizona
Jan 13, 2014 - 10:35pm PT
I used to run a 1948 Allis-Chalmers model G that had been retro fitted with a floating grader board. I sure wish I had one of those now.
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Jan 26, 2014 - 10:44pm PT
Thank You!
Dingus McGee

Social climber
Laramie
Feb 10, 2014 - 10:17pm PT






Marlow

Sport climber
OSLO
Apr 3, 2014 - 03:51pm PT

Yeo Valley Rap Advert
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Fletcher

Gym climber
A very quiet place
Apr 7, 2014 - 11:50am PT
Yeo Valley... gotta love those Brits!

Keep comin', an all time classic thread.

Eric
perswig

climber
Apr 17, 2014 - 04:55pm PT
All in a day around Waldo County.












Moo.
Dale

tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
May 11, 2014 - 09:59pm PT
my neices BF's ford
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
May 12, 2014 - 06:59am PT
perswig

climber
May 18, 2014 - 10:14am PT
Haven't you guys seen enough tractors yet?

No?
Well, then:






Dale
perswig

climber
May 18, 2014 - 10:19am PT
And spotted this on the way to work; such a sexy chassis, even in disrepair.








Dale

jstan

climber
May 18, 2014 - 10:57am PT
A model A sitting out in the snow!

Bring it into the garage and fire up a coffee maker beside it.
perswig

climber
May 18, 2014 - 12:12pm PT
A model A sitting out in the snow!
Bring it into the garage and fire up a coffee maker beside it.

If you mean the rig atop this page, sitting in her little copse, I like to imagine this already happened.

She sits about 50 yards off Route 1 in Northport, sort of the start of economic depression along that coastal road. Her perch seems deliberate rather than accident or inevitable; I suspect her owner wants to show her a bit without risking vandals sullying her reputation.
You can see her paint, and while clearly not a full restore, it speaks to me of a month or winter under roof or canvas, with a short-stack woodstove or kerosene blower and yes, cups of joe, black with a pinch of salt (lots of ex-Navy around here). Her immediate neighbors being run-down trailers, overgrown dooryards, and abandoned sheds from gone-by boatbuilders, once you know where to look, she stands out like an apple among withering fall leaves.

Dale

Marlow

Sport climber
OSLO
May 30, 2014 - 03:55am PT

Leningrad Cowboys - Jupiter Calling
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Make tractors, not war.
steveA

Trad climber
Wolfeboro, NH
Jun 1, 2014 - 05:04am PT
I could not have built my house without my Ford 8N tractor. All the beams I made in the woods were hauled out by the 8N; including many truck loads of logs used for floor boards etc.
steveA

Trad climber
Wolfeboro, NH
Jun 1, 2014 - 05:09am PT
steveA

Trad climber
Wolfeboro, NH
Jun 1, 2014 - 05:14am PT
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Jul 25, 2014 - 01:44pm PT
Ride my tractor all night long And everyone will sing our song,--Leningrad Coboys
Marlow

Sport climber
OSLO
Jul 25, 2014 - 02:12pm PT

Leningrad Cowboys - Space Tractor
[Click to View YouTube Video]

One of the most affordable tractors in the 1970s in the area I grew up - Belarus
Though my grandfather had an old grey Ferguson, slowmoving and friendly...
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Jul 25, 2014 - 02:22pm PT
perswig

climber
Jul 26, 2014 - 04:48am PT
Been thinking about GhoulweJ a bit this week.
Not sure why; only knew him here.

Anyway, tractor bump, dude.


Damn right we've got nitro. But seats'll cost ya.


Trike or row, ready to plow, harrow, plant.




All straight lines and business.





Plenty of 8Ns and even 9Ns around, but we don't see many 800s.
40hp at the bar, yessir.


Everybody's got a pretty Farmall, for parades and fairs and such.


How many miles mowed before put to pasture propping pulpwood?


Power redirected.


Keep your tools and lunch handy. Maybe the newborn, too? Might be darn soothing.


Change every 120 hours.

This, not so much.


If I got to pick, this would come home with me.
Darn near 50hp, $5K new in 1969.

Solid, Jackson.



Closer to home, this rig recently appeared.


Nice view.


Thanks for looking.
Dale




tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Jul 26, 2014 - 05:41am PT
a few miles down the hill from my cabin
TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Aug 8, 2014 - 07:47pm PT
[Click to View YouTube Video]
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Aug 9, 2014 - 04:08am PT
think i saw a grill tom a Ford 800 up thread. pretty sure that is what we had back on the farm when i was a kid?
Chaz

Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
Aug 9, 2014 - 10:08pm PT
Raking and baling.

TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Aug 10, 2014 - 07:56am PT
[Click to View YouTube Video]
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Aug 10, 2014 - 06:18pm PT
Nice funny video. in real life falling in the baler kills you. happened to a 16yr old kid a few yeas ago near here....
Chaz

Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
Aug 10, 2014 - 07:38pm PT
Raking ...




... and bailing



Too bad I missed out on the cutting. Hay cutting draws a swarm of Bald Eagles.
TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Aug 10, 2014 - 07:47pm PT
Best time to go rabbit huntin'
JimT

climber
Munich
Aug 11, 2014 - 12:35pm PT
This made No. 1 in the British charts, enjoy!
[Click to View YouTube Video]
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Aug 11, 2014 - 02:12pm PT
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Aug 19, 2014 - 03:03pm PT

http://www.pacifichorticulture.org/articles/fig-gardens/
perswig

climber
Aug 20, 2014 - 07:03pm PT






Oink.
Dale
Tobia

Social climber
Denial
Sep 14, 2014 - 10:22am PT
Ever seen a tractor smile? Mind did.

I just put a new tire on my '73 JD 1530. I've been needing one for about 5 years; but just kept airing it up. I'm pretty sure it was the original tire, the other side had been replaced before I took ownership in 1991.

I replaced the rear tires when I bought it.
perswig

climber
Sep 28, 2014 - 01:42pm PT
^
good for another 2 score and change, Tobia


Waddayoulookinat?


Dale
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Oct 1, 2014 - 02:58am PT
cool tractor repair shop I stumbled on in NH
neebee

Social climber
calif/texas
Oct 1, 2014 - 03:01am PT
hey there say, neat share, tradmanclimbs... good to see tractor, instead of all the junk on the front page, ... :)

happy good eve to you, too, by the way... :)
perswig

climber
Oct 2, 2014 - 12:35pm PT
Nice bone-yard, Trad. First thought those big three in the back were Olivers, but more likely Internationals or M-H.


Powerhouse IH300 utility.



And a well-used Ford with a RonA-approved aftermarket option.

PULL!




Dale
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Oct 2, 2014 - 04:30pm PT
your 1st instinct was correct. the big green guys are Olivers.
perswig

climber
Oct 2, 2014 - 06:41pm PT
^^
Wow, now there's a lot of muscle.
Thanks, Nick!

Dale
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Oct 2, 2014 - 06:50pm PT
Got to love the mobile pidgon launcher.
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Oct 3, 2014 - 02:55am PT
That banged up JD that dale posted shure looks like a real face. Possibly a shitfaced tractor?
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Oct 6, 2014 - 05:00pm PT
This place was the mother load..
Bushman

Social climber
Elk Grove, CA
Oct 6, 2014 - 08:37pm PT

'Nine N to Death'

Had a fire on my tractor,
Back in twenty twelve,
The damage was extensive,
Into which I would not delve,

Only paid two thousand dollars,
For my beauty and my pride,
But when I torched my 9N,
I very nearly died,

The wiring and ignition,
Were melted to a crisp,
The hoses belts and gauges,
Had gone up in a wisp,

The steering wheel and starter,
Were fried beyond belief,
As was the generator,
It bringing me such grief,

The fuel tank hood and tires,
We're blasted by the flame,
The radiator damage had me,
Take his name in vain,

It sat for two long years,
Before I had the guts,
And then began collecting,
All the bolts and nuts,

It took one hundred hours,
And all that I could do,
To figure out the mess I made,
Then one day I was through,

I tested out the starter,
And oops it was in gear,
As it fired on the first try,
And filled my heart with fear,

It began to run me over,
As I struggled for the key,
The big tire grabbed my foot,
And started for my knee,

At the very final second,
The engine I did kill,
As I barely pulled my foot out,
From underneath the wheel,

The tractor's working awesome,
I surely must attest,
Now that she has been overhauled,
It's time to give a rest,

To the sweating and the toil,
To the drudgery and the grime,
And put to work my tractor,
As it starts up every time,

The honey do's are plaguing me,
So I'll say what the heck,
And try and start my tractor,
Without parking on my neck!

-bushman
10/06/2014
pyro

Big Wall climber
Calabasas
Oct 6, 2014 - 08:41pm PT
Zuma Beach Tractors!
pyro

Big Wall climber
Calabasas
Oct 7, 2014 - 12:11pm PT
But the salts' gotta play hell on those things, eh pyro?

probably!


dingus these guys have fun looking job's.. I go surfing super early and the tractor guy is my only hope if a shark attack occurred. I'll update when I can but some of the tools they use are kool!
Marlow

Sport climber
OSLO
Oct 7, 2014 - 12:19pm PT

How to Rebuild a Ferguson T20 in under 10 Minutes
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Inishowen Tractor Build Team
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Oct 7, 2014 - 03:42pm PT
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Oct 7, 2014 - 04:03pm PT
perswig

climber
Oct 9, 2014 - 04:00am PT
Great page, peeps. Thanks for the poem, Bushman.







And for the oddball of the day...


Dale
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Oct 9, 2014 - 04:25am PT
[Click to View YouTube Video]
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Oct 10, 2014 - 03:01am PT
Norwegian

Trad climber
dancin on the tip of god's middle finger
Oct 10, 2014 - 03:20am PT
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Oct 10, 2014 - 04:01am PT
perswig

climber
Oct 10, 2014 - 08:50am PT
a) damn, that's a pretty Oliver.
b) Norg, do you know the fella on the tractor? that's a nice shot! and the second pic - tractor, traction, or tension?
c) Trad, what's with the Case with the front axle extension? I've only seen trike gear out in front like that. Cool!

Dale
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Oct 10, 2014 - 10:55am PT
Not shure? This place was the mother load so just putting up a few shots at a time:)
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Oct 10, 2014 - 08:07pm PT
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Oct 11, 2014 - 04:52am PT
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Oct 12, 2014 - 04:36pm PT
Haying today in VT.
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Oct 12, 2014 - 07:01pm PT
A few more shots from the old tractor shop...
perswig

climber
Oct 19, 2014 - 01:09pm PT

And a 460 like Trad's, not quite as nice but ready for work.





Dale
Andy Fielding

Trad climber
UK
Oct 20, 2014 - 12:25pm PT
I quit my job recently and went back to college to study arboriculture. Part of that course allows me to drive tractors. It's a new experience for me.
pyro

Big Wall climber
Calabasas
Jan 23, 2015 - 05:59am PT
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Jan 23, 2015 - 09:17am PT
Stopped by the Carrizzo Plain Visitor Center last Sunday. They have quite
the impressive little collection there...





perswig

climber
Jan 24, 2015 - 02:23am PT
Don't you jokers know this is a CLIMBING site?
Sheesh.

(Timid, Pyro, Reilly - tfpu; love the Cletrac, aftermarket mods and all!)
Dale
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Apr 5, 2015 - 04:35pm PT
Cold Easter sunday @ my sisters farm. No sap running today...
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Apr 6, 2015 - 03:23am PT
bump for DMT
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Apr 6, 2015 - 03:45pm PT
As long as you don't think my sisters tractors are sexy;)
tolman_paul

Trad climber
Anchorage, AK
Apr 6, 2015 - 06:35pm PT
Friend let me borrow his little Kubota tractor when I was clearing our lot.


Have quite a bit of dirt work to do and need to borrow it again this summer.
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
May 16, 2015 - 05:32am PT
Spring plowing a few miles from my house. 2 weeks ago
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Aug 1, 2015 - 07:40pm PT
Redneck loader.
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Aug 22, 2015 - 10:24pm PT

tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Sep 4, 2015 - 06:05pm PT
Its 3rd cut right now in VT. This was downtown Reading Vt today.
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Sep 5, 2015 - 04:43am PT
this was about a 1/4 mile up the street from the last shot.
perswig

climber
Sep 5, 2015 - 05:07am PT
Nice, trad.
I'd guess early-'50s Case, VAC or DC. 18 horses at the belt wheel on the off side.

Dale
TooTall539

Social climber
Maine
Sep 7, 2015 - 09:12am PT

Town made road grader. Susquehanna Co., Pa. c1960. Me at the controls.
perswig

climber
Sep 7, 2015 - 05:10pm PT
^^
Nice! And from Maine (and PA).

Not TooTallTodd, maybe climbed with BenT and/or Crazy Jim from up in North New Portland?


Dale
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Sep 22, 2015 - 04:49pm PT
Sucks they moved the antique tractor pull to sunday so i missed it this year.. This 1950 Cub cadet is it's origional color. It was a demo model and they came it white.
Mungeclimber

Trad climber
Nothing creative to say
Sep 22, 2015 - 09:59pm PT
South Dakota Tractor Rally...



Just was waiting for Xzibit to pop out and pull on my shirt.
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Oct 5, 2015 - 04:17pm PT
Sweet! cruiseing arround the NE kingdome sunday saw this in front of me this behind me and an old farmall out the side window My sister has all her corn chopped and in her big JD takeing a nap
TooTall539

Social climber
Maine
Oct 5, 2015 - 05:42pm PT
Perswig sorry dale TooTallDave in this case, although I do know
a CrazyTom!

the Fet

climber
Tu-Tok-A-Nu-La
Oct 5, 2015 - 05:57pm PT

Saw this thing at Shaver Lake last year. Not sure if it's a tractor.

I've been pricing tractors lately, could really use one, but damn they're expensive. They seem to hold their value from new, like, forever.

A used compact tractor is what I'd pay for a car!
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Oct 6, 2015 - 06:17pm PT
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Oct 15, 2015 - 07:32pm PT
happen to have my work camers with me when i went by my favorite tractor mother load a few weeks ago..
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Oct 23, 2015 - 04:21am PT
bump for DMT
Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Oct 23, 2015 - 05:33am PT
Just got my first riding mower free off the street . . .
Replaced the celinoid and it ran sweet!
Sweet I did it my self made the girl-chick swoon
until I killt' the thing again
When I replaced the mower-deck drive belt, dag nabbit.
Mechanical tinkering without a tool shed or work bench
I'm pathetic whats' wrong with this thing ?
it is seizing some where I go back

I will start again. . .
Happiegrrrl2

Trad climber
Dec 15, 2015 - 09:48am PT

If you like old farm stuff, you will want to find your way to Elk City, Oklahoma, and visit the Farm and Ranch museum, which is part of the Route 66 museum. http://visitelkcity.com/museums.aspx#oldtown

That is where the above images were shot. The cool thing I found was that a LOT of the meta parts were manufactured in not only Wisconsin, where I grew up, but very near to where I grew up.
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Dec 25, 2015 - 06:55pm PT
Not a white christmass on my sisters farm
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Dec 26, 2015 - 05:35pm PT
Cool stuff Happie!
perswig

climber
Jan 3, 2016 - 09:39am PT
Plenty of tread left, Ding.
Don't tell me you didn't kick 'em...

Dale
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Jan 13, 2016 - 06:46am PT
This ford is super nice! perfect size for small substanance farm.
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Jan 13, 2016 - 07:30am PT
There are a lot of the older N9 era in the northeast. not many of these 4x4 semi modern rigs.
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Jan 31, 2016 - 07:34pm PT
Did you just get that tractor?
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Jan 31, 2016 - 08:01pm PT
"Those Ford tractors are all over the south. Hardly ever see one in California. Why is that?" asks DMT.

I guess you haven't traveled in the "Ford Belt" near Le Grand all that much. They are quite common, and these belong to one die-hard Ford fan.









climber bob

Social climber
maine
Feb 18, 2016 - 02:26pm PT
the Fet

climber
Tu-Tok-A-Nu-La
Feb 18, 2016 - 02:36pm PT
^ Nice.

I have thought about getting something to that. But a compact kubota or similar can also run a bush hog type mower. Post hole digger. Etc. and get in between trees. And will likely need less repairs. I just need an extra $20k+ lying around.
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Feb 18, 2016 - 03:11pm PT
So where is this tractor museum, DMT?

Things sure look great when folks keep things dusted and painted and well-lit. The two museums here, Bright's Pioneer Museum and Charley's Ag Museum are both poorly-lit and dusty as heck and over-crowded and not kept up or repainted. But they's free, so...

Marlow

Sport climber
OSLO
Feb 19, 2016 - 12:22pm PT

The coolest thread on the web...
FRUMY

Trad climber
Bishop,CA
Feb 24, 2016 - 08:28am PT
tolman_paul

Trad climber
Anchorage, AK
Feb 24, 2016 - 09:22am PT
I have thought about getting something to that. But a compact kubota or similar can also run a bush hog type mower. Post hole digger. Etc. and get in between trees. And will likely need less repairs. I just need an extra $20k+ lying around.

Last year there was a cherry 30 hp Kubota that had been garaged and had less than 100 hrs on flea bay with back hoe, box pan and another attachment I'm forgetting that went for just over $20k. New the same rig would be $30k plus.

If we ever get a few acres to build a cabin on, I'm getting a tractor. Still have a fair bit of landscaping to do in the yard and am hoping to still have access to my buddies tractor this summer.
jonnyrig

climber
Feb 27, 2016 - 09:46pm PT
and this from a relatively "modern" overhead valve design. i bet you old-timers can tell me exactly what it came from. Note the design... 3 mains on a 4 cylinder. No counterweights on the crank. Shims between rods and caps (and between main caps as well). i plan to breath new life into her...
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Feb 28, 2016 - 03:40am PT
Man. sorry looking stuck Ford. bet that mud is like concrete when it dries up.......
jstan

climber
Feb 28, 2016 - 05:24am PT
Has the Ford been stuck there for years? Since that big piece of concrete would prevent the disk
harrow from working, it had to have been put there with a skip loader in hopes of levering the tractor
upward. That also eliminated any traction possessed by the rear wheels. And the angle of the harrow
suggests the weight was added after the ground had already dried out. I would guess the tractor no
longer runs. But if it did...............

Take a sledge hammer and break that concrete up. Probably have to jack the harrow's rear end to
disconnect the three point hitch. Then go in with a shovel, dig out the rear wheels and provide a ramp
for them going forward. Have to dig out underneath the body so the weight is all on the wheels.

Apparently someone decided the embarrassment was not enough to justify the sweat.

Edit:
That embarrassment would have been substantial in view of how close the road is. So I conclude the
stuckee may have since passed on. The expectation being that the horse property will shortly be
subdivided.
tolman_paul

Trad climber
Anchorage, AK
Mar 1, 2016 - 10:48am PT
Gotta love do not touch sines on a massive steel tractor. Like touching it is going to hurt it.
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Mar 1, 2016 - 03:19pm PT
they don't do much for me in a museam. i like em dirty and working;)

the way to get that ford out is with a log skidder when the mud is wet enough to let her go.
labrat

Trad climber
Erik O. Auburn, CA
Mar 1, 2016 - 04:02pm PT
jstan
It's not uncommon to add weight to disc harrows trying to get them to bite into soil.


Where did you take the picture of the stuck tractor Dingus? Any chance it is located near Ione? The clays in that area are great for pottery but a bit hard on vehicles ;-)
jstan

climber
Mar 7, 2016 - 03:01pm PT
DMT:
Keep an eye on this. The harrow is still there.
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Mar 7, 2016 - 03:10pm PT
Super nice collection. i like seeing them at the fair for the antique tractor pull. glad to see the ford escaped;)
jstan

climber
Mar 8, 2016 - 01:50pm PT
Ha! The game may, after all, be up.
labrat

Trad climber
Erik O. Auburn, CA
Mar 8, 2016 - 02:15pm PT
How can we be sure it did not sink below the water / clay?

Did you actually see it up the hill?

;-)
jstan

climber
Mar 9, 2016 - 07:47pm PT
There it is. Dingus is taking the fifth. Peoria?
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Mar 18, 2016 - 07:34am PT
http://www.linkedin.com/company/heidrick-ag-history-center

There it is, guys. This museum's in Woodland, CA, in Dingus' immediate vicinity.

Thanks for all that camera shooting, DMT.

http://www.californiaagmuseum.org/
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Mar 18, 2016 - 01:42pm PT
Well, tractor tyres, anyway...

Lots of unlikely tires on even more unlikely vehicles in Moab this week....
jstan

climber
Mar 20, 2016 - 11:55am PT
So! The little Ford that couldn't has been spotted. Great! Now I can sleep at night.
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Mar 25, 2016 - 09:09am PT
DMT, strong work!

How about some Frog tracteurs?

The SFV used a Lanz hot bulb engine. Hey, they're French, they gotta be diferrent, right?
Le hot bulb engine:
http://tractors.wikia.com/wiki/Hot_Bulb_Engine

And what they're most used for these days it would seem:
Tom

Big Wall climber
San Luis Obispo CA
Mar 28, 2016 - 07:57am PT
#
Top-fuel Billy Bobs like to bolt two or three V-8 engines together, crank to crank.





Cal Poly tractor pull machine, popping a wheelie:



tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Mar 28, 2016 - 04:09pm PT
I totally dig the antique tractor pulls.
It's easter so got up to my sisters.
Really big tractor.Sugaring just does not seem right with no snow.
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Mar 29, 2016 - 01:45pm PT

Brandon-

climber
The Granite State.
Mar 29, 2016 - 01:50pm PT



the Fet

climber
Tu-Tok-A-Nu-La
Apr 6, 2016 - 06:15pm PT

Finally picked up a tractor. Killer deal off Craigslist.
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Apr 7, 2016 - 03:28am PT
sweet!
the Fet

climber
Tu-Tok-A-Nu-La
Apr 15, 2016 - 08:57pm PT

Part tractor. Part mini camper van. It's the ultimate Dingus ride!!

Too many good pictures in this search to post here. Gotta check the link

https://www.google.com/search?q=funny+tractor&biw=1920&bih=1021&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjfpYaSoZLMAhVP82MKHYDzA4AQsAQIGg
Marlow

Sport climber
OSLO
May 6, 2016 - 12:09pm PT

[Click to View YouTube Video]
radair

Social climber
North Conway, NH
May 12, 2016 - 11:09am PT
Thanks to my old buddy TooTall for sending me down this rabbit hole. My first tractor was a Kubota BX-23, which was a great little machine. A "hydraulic spoon" as one of my friends called it, it was way better than shoveling and i learned how to use a backhoe anyway.
After getting divorced and building a new house with a very long driveway, snowblowing with the open station BX was an extreme alpine adventure and i upgraded to a B3000 with a full cab and heater/AC. Great machine.
My passion is building mountain bike trails, so last fall i used my bonus check to buy this little rig:
This is more fun than should be allowed. Hydraulic power is awesome.
radair

Social climber
North Conway, NH
May 12, 2016 - 11:36am PT
That thing must have been terrifying to operate at full throttle. Or a shitload of fun, one or the other.
Stone Cowboy

Trad climber
Livermore, CA.
May 12, 2016 - 09:13pm PT
the year was 1974 on a milk farm spreading manure in an open cab on a Minneapolis-Moline. the wind comes up and we were slopped by cow sh#t in the face hands head jackets...we had so much fun. no pice though but I think I have this.... SoGladCowsDontFly!
Scole

Trad climber
Zapopan
Jun 29, 2016 - 04:53pm PT
jstan

climber
Jun 29, 2016 - 09:33pm PT
Darn you Dingus! I just wasted some time looking at Kubotas on the internet. Tractors are like real estate. You buy only if you are going to be around for 30 years.
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Sep 2, 2016 - 09:41am PT
Your best shot EVAH!
perswig

climber
Sep 27, 2016 - 06:51pm PT


Dale
i-b-goB

Social climber
Wise Acres
Sep 27, 2016 - 07:31pm PT
the Fet

climber
Tu-Tok-A-Nu-La
Sep 27, 2016 - 09:26pm PT
Some moron tried to steal a tractor a month ago in my town. If you're gonna be an ass at steal something a tractor's a good choice though because they are worth a lot but you don't have to register them so they could be on someone's property for years and no one would know.

BY NASHELLY CHAVEZ
nchavez@sacbee.com
The quick actions of an alert neighbor helped a Placer County Sheriff’s deputy arrest a man who was allegedly attempting to steal a $25,000 tractor from a Loomis ranch early Sunday morning, sheriff’s spokeswoman Dena Erwin said.

The suspect was arrested as he fled with the John Deere tractor through downtown Loomis, a quiet community of 6,700 in rural Placer County. It was the neighbor’s call to 911 that alerted deputies to be on the lookout, Erwin said.

“The victim was not home because he was working that night,” Erwin said. “If it wasn’t for the neighbor, that man would have been long gone with the tractor.”

The incident started just past midnight Sunday when a man who lived on Laird Road, near Rutherford Canyon Road, heard a loud noise coming from his neighbor’s property. When he went to investigate, he saw a stranger driving his neighbor’s tractor, Erwin said.

The stranger, whom deputies identified as John Riley Gray, 25, of Windsor, drove the big green tractor onto a flatbed trailer attached to his truck. The neighbor quickly notified authorities, Erwin said.

“The neighbor was yelling at him, saying that he called the Sheriff’s Office and to stop,” she said.

Instead of stopping, Gray fled in the truck, driving at high speeds with an unfastened tractor in tow. A deputy saw Gray minutes later at the Horseshoe Bar Road and Taylor Road in downtown Loomis.

“He didn’t get very far,” Erwin said. “At midnight in downtown Loomis there’s not a lot of automobile traffic.”

The deputy stopped and arrested Gray, Erwin said. He was booked into the Placer County jail later that morning on a felony grand theft charge and for violating his parole, according to Placer County inmate logs. He is being held without bail, Erwin said.

The tractor was returned to its owner, Erwin said.

Video of cops unloading the tractor here: http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/crime/article97741647.html#storylink=cpy
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Sep 28, 2016 - 03:07am PT
Took this shot in alberta this summer. this is Rt1 the main divided hwy that runs east west
perswig

climber
Oct 17, 2016 - 04:35pm PT


Dale
perswig

climber
Oct 19, 2016 - 02:46am PT
The owner of this rig called her Gladys. With a name like that, and features like this, gotta wonder how jealous his wife was...


Optional row-crop.

NOT optional. TTFT (too tall for trike).

Dale






mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Nov 11, 2016 - 06:49pm PT
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Nov 26, 2016 - 01:20am PT
big john Deer at rest. turkey day at my sisters
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Nov 26, 2016 - 03:59am PT
took this shot for Dingus this summer in SD
hooblie

climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
Nov 26, 2016 - 06:25am PT
[Click to View YouTube Video]
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Dec 4, 2016 - 04:34am PT
took this shot for dingus cruiseing down Hwy1 in Sascatuan on our way home last summer when we arrived in VT our first stop was my sisters
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Dec 4, 2016 - 04:57am PT
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Dec 5, 2016 - 11:56am PT
MH2

Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
Dec 5, 2016 - 04:13pm PT
Was meaning to post this for a while, and maybe already did, but found it again.


in South Africa


To allay concern:

Definition of tractor for Students

1
:  a vehicle that has large rear wheels or moves on endless belts and is used especially for pulling farm implements




from Merriam-Webster online
Brandon-

climber
The Granite State.
Dec 7, 2016 - 09:27am PT
Those rice machines make perfect sense once considered.
thebravecowboy

climber
The Good Places
Dec 25, 2016 - 09:44pm PT
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Dec 27, 2016 - 05:56pm PT
nice rust cowboy. My sisters christmas decorations
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Dec 27, 2016 - 08:00pm PT
OK, that does it, tomorrow I'm going down to the basement to find my slides
of the German tractor we used to haul 8000 ton pre-fab buildings off the
barges at Prudhoe Bay. Yes, I did say eight thousand tonnes. And you
wondered why oil was so expensive?
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Dec 27, 2016 - 08:14pm PT
^^^^ Pretty sure that rig requires a cabin attendant.
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Dec 28, 2016 - 07:15pm PT
there is an old 1948 Farm all at my sisters that still gets used for work.
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Dec 28, 2016 - 07:25pm PT
The wife is related to John Deere, distantly. :-(
BL

Trad climber
Jan 1, 2017 - 04:12pm PT

Saw this one on a back road below Lick observatory.
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Jan 1, 2017 - 04:20pm PT
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Jan 2, 2017 - 05:06am PT
nice one mouse! i took this shot on chritsmas day a few miles down the road from my sisters farm
hooblie

climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
Jan 14, 2017 - 07:18am PT
http://flagstaff.craigslist.org/hvo/5930295550.html

hooblie

climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
Jan 14, 2017 - 08:12am PT
ya, where's the rubble? coulda made rubble
thebravecowboy

climber
The Good Places
Jan 14, 2017 - 08:38am PT
jonnyrig

climber
Jan 14, 2017 - 08:51am PT
ladyscarlett

Trad climber
SF Bay Area, California
Jan 23, 2017 - 10:30pm PT
I love the little guys!!

those would look awesome in your driveway!

Cheers

LS
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Feb 7, 2017 - 11:05am PT
Supposedly a GREAT tractor thread, and we get - Tonka toy tractors.

Canal-cutting machine called simply The Wheel by B/E aficiadozers.

San Luis Forebay in the Brown era, prior to completion of the powerhouse and canal.
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Feb 7, 2017 - 01:43pm PT
OK, yer right to say, so I'll take it off.

Are cycle motors kosher?

[Click to View YouTube Video](Just turn the sound down if it hurts your ears.)
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Feb 25, 2017 - 04:18am PT
Nice. Thunder looked like a really cool dog.
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Mar 15, 2017 - 10:29pm PT
Fix Or Repair Daily.


tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Mar 19, 2017 - 02:09pm PT
passed these guys a bunch of times this winter. Finally stopped a took a few shots.
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Apr 18, 2017 - 06:21pm PT
this one might do it ;) Easter at my sisters.
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Apr 18, 2017 - 06:23pm PT
thats rigged. they went off camera and stopped the tractor, let the pick up get moveing and then spun the tractor wheels for the camera.
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
May 9, 2017 - 12:04pm PT
I wonder just how many tractors there are in the valley?

This should give you an idea, DMT.

Total number of tractors in California increased 24 percent from 1997 to 2002, although the portion over 100 horsepower remained relatively constant at 15 percent.

http://aic.ucdavis.edu/publications/moca/moca_current/moca09/moca09chapter3.pdf
Jon Beck

Trad climber
Oceanside
May 19, 2017 - 06:14am PT
Steel Wheels, ande it ain't no Rolling Stone

sighted westbound on the 78 in Vista CA

hooblie

climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
Jun 3, 2017 - 07:09am PT
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Jul 4, 2017 - 08:08pm PT
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Jul 6, 2017 - 03:27am PT
a few barn finds at my sister farm last weekend. back corner of the barn
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Jul 11, 2017 - 05:28am PT
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Jul 26, 2017 - 04:06am PT
clode

Trad climber
portland, or
Jul 26, 2017 - 11:41am PT
What did the trailer say to the tractor?
"Pull me closer, John Deere"!
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Aug 10, 2017 - 04:24am PT
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Aug 30, 2017 - 04:28pm PT

It still runs great!
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Sep 16, 2017 - 07:11pm PT
http://www.yesterdaystractors.com/cgi-bin/boards.cgi
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Oct 16, 2017 - 04:57am PT
For Reilly.

[Click to View YouTube Video]
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Oct 19, 2017 - 11:57pm PT
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Oct 30, 2017 - 03:45pm PT
saw these up in Quebec yesterday and then swung through my sisters on my way home
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Oct 30, 2017 - 04:10pm PT
I could buy that Ferguson upthread for a grand. Wish I had some place to use it. Come to think of it Wayno is really close. He should buy it!
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Oct 31, 2017 - 11:08pm PT
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/13/italian-mafia-boss-bernardo-tractor-provenzano-dies

mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Dec 23, 2017 - 05:39pm PT
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Feb 14, 2018 - 06:03pm PT
saw both of these last weekend.
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Feb 25, 2018 - 04:28pm PT
The logger left this one in Isa's front yard but he took the key with him.....
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Feb 26, 2018 - 03:34am PT
Hoser

climber
Vancouver,Rome
Feb 26, 2018 - 05:03am PT
taking the easy way across

tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Mar 25, 2018 - 02:16pm PT
One of my sisters rigs yesterday evening.
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Mar 30, 2018 - 09:28am PT
just down the dirt road a bit from my cabin... its full blown crappy mud season here now....
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Apr 2, 2018 - 07:35am PT
one of my sisters small tractors. 4,000 series..
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Apr 22, 2018 - 02:44pm PT
Cool!
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
May 20, 2018 - 05:54pm PT
saw this at work today
Q- Ball

Mountain climber
but to scared to climb them anymore
May 21, 2018 - 08:31am PT

Just got the old Hoss running! Time to start planting!
hooblie

climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
May 29, 2018 - 08:58am PT

bonus: upside down house!

tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
May 29, 2018 - 04:44pm PT
a few weeks ago at work yesterday @ the chiropractor.
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Jun 7, 2018 - 06:59am PT
planting corn last month.
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Aug 8, 2018 - 03:29am PT
some place in Wisconsin and then Minnasota
Tim Bermingham

Mountain climber
Jamestown, California. U.S.A.
Aug 8, 2018 - 05:35am PT

Not a squeak from brother Mouse.
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Aug 8, 2018 - 10:09am PT
Is that the one you were talking about from down the hill?
(I'm fine as frog hair, bro.)
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Aug 8, 2018 - 10:16am PT
Fookin’ Norwegian farmers are just like Wisconsin farmers - they act like they own the road!


La Femme’s cousin’s tractor!
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Aug 8, 2018 - 03:45pm PT
Nice!. South dakota
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Aug 8, 2018 - 03:56pm PT
South Dakota 1950 Oliver
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Aug 9, 2018 - 04:30pm PT
Cody Wyo
originalpmac

Mountain climber
Timbers of Fennario
Aug 9, 2018 - 09:16pm PT
Hooblie, do you have a side angle shot of that ancient excavator? It's pretty awesome.

DMT, whats the name of that tractor museum? Thanks for the mini tour. Love the way that cast Caterpillar logo is shaped like a caterpillar.
Climbsrox

Trad climber
seattle, wa
Aug 9, 2018 - 10:20pm PT
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Aug 10, 2018 - 02:37pm PT
This is all I have for a tractor. The old girl still runs working on next years wood love that dump body. two months ago in Idaho I came across this carcase
perswig

climber
Aug 12, 2018 - 04:13pm PT



The Ferguson (?) hasn't moved for years, but the Farmall was tilling and the little Deere's sicklebar was hard at work with roadside brush.
Dale
hooblie

climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
Aug 12, 2018 - 09:19pm PT
a side angle shot of that ancient excavator?
just one block off 395 lakeside, lee vining
ramp side parking for alt-fuel mobility device
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Aug 13, 2018 - 06:34pm PT
Idaho
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Aug 13, 2018 - 07:18pm PT
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Aug 14, 2018 - 03:00pm PT
Idahomost of these are flybys.. nothing too spectacular... lots of times I did want to stop when I saw an older tractor but most of the time did not....
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Aug 17, 2018 - 11:08am PT
Idaho
Tobia

Social climber
Denial
Aug 25, 2018 - 06:47am PT

My neighbor's new Kubota MS-111. His farm has a lot old hay fields that are mowed 3-4 times a summer during wet years (subtropical climate). The farm is in Chattahoochee County, below the "gnat line", a miserable place to be in the warmer months if you don't enjoy constant battle with gnats flying in your mouth, ears, nose and eyes. (I don't).

You won't see too many Kubota's on large soybean, peanut, feed corn or other large production farms where John Deere rules the market due to longevity and customer loyalty. Kubota's niche is the weekend or hobby farmers.

It is fun to operate, and has a hepa filter to cleanse the air coming into the air conditioned cab (my favorite accessory due to asthma.
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Sep 6, 2018 - 11:07am PT
Fresno's "Fig King," AJ Forkner, owned 300 new Ford tractors.

https://www.pacifichorticulture.org/articles/fig-gardens/
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Sep 26, 2018 - 04:09pm PT
Bone yard...
perswig

climber
Oct 3, 2018 - 03:40am PT



And for some awesome old machines getting it done:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BEor5Ra5M0

Dale
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Oct 3, 2018 - 04:29pm PT
some kind of 9n or close to it..
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Nov 5, 2018 - 03:15am PT
beautifull Oliver.
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Nov 5, 2018 - 09:19am PT
hooblie

climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
Nov 12, 2018 - 05:47pm PT
lllluuvin'it!
jonnyrig

climber
Nov 12, 2018 - 08:35pm PT
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Nov 25, 2018 - 07:05am PT
These two beasts were up at my sisters on Turkey day.
thebravecowboy

climber
The Good Places
Nov 28, 2018 - 01:35pm PT

hooblie

climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
Nov 28, 2018 - 06:14pm PT
https://flagstaff.craigslist.org/grd/d/1955-allis-ca-tractor/6759033359.html
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Dec 1, 2018 - 06:13pm PT
Jim Clipper

climber
Dec 11, 2018 - 07:20pm PT
[Click to View YouTube Video]

Mr. DMT,

Now, your gonna have to lie, when asked if you like show tunes. Not that im doin' the askin'.

[Click to View YouTube Video]
Jim Clipper

climber
Dec 11, 2018 - 08:17pm PT
Ha! Thought you might have heard it, when you mentioned NPR recently. Still, sorry, but had to call you out. The truth, or following werner, shall set you free my son.
Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Dec 16, 2018 - 02:39am PT
See IT in the back ground? Watch till the bitter end
[Click to View YouTube Video]
perswig

climber
Dec 16, 2018 - 04:53am PT
^^
That was good. TFPU.
Dale
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Dec 16, 2018 - 05:26am PT
[Click to View YouTube Video]
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Dec 16, 2018 - 06:46am PT
[Click to View YouTube Video]
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Dec 16, 2018 - 06:49am PT
[Click to View YouTube Video]
perswig

climber
Dec 16, 2018 - 09:21am PT
Our local farm stand, a very popular 3-season destination all the way through wreath and tree season, just suffered a significant fire destroying two of their storage and repair buildings and much of their rolling stock.
If there's a silver lining, none of the retail side was touched, no persons injured, and it's essentially the end of the field work for the year, minus some tilling-under that can be handled by the remaining tractors and discs.



Dale
Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Dec 16, 2018 - 09:27am PT
In Main, right?
I tried to search.

Are there any pictures of the fire with the tractors in flames or the firefighters hosing the ashes?
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Dec 17, 2018 - 07:03am PT
Bridge, tractor, tractor. Right?

Yer on the ball, DMT. Way to go!
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Dec 17, 2018 - 02:28pm PT
That Yuba is da bomb!
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Dec 22, 2018 - 07:48am PT
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Dec 22, 2018 - 09:20am PT
COR pizza joint
Jim Clipper

climber
Dec 23, 2018 - 12:06am PT
The tunes posted above were worth the price of admission.

Also, sometimes, maybe a little faith and community will see it through.

[Click to View YouTube Video]

Putin the red in redneck? Redneck like a Russian.

[Click to View YouTube Video]
perswig

climber
Dec 23, 2018 - 03:19am PT
Well-found honey hole, Dingus; looking forward to more.
That Cat is beautiful, seat looks fit for a sleigh and big enough for two.
Mining or ag, do you think?

Dale
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Dec 23, 2018 - 04:25am PT
Kustom Kanopies, Fresno.
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Dec 23, 2018 - 09:41am PT
Lust for the rust!
perswig

climber
Dec 25, 2018 - 04:03am PT
What doors open simply with a smile, a handshake, and a willing ear.

Dale
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Dec 25, 2018 - 05:14am PT
Super cool story! I love the patina. that 1940s truck would not be a fraction as cool if it was newly painted and polished.
FRUMY

Trad climber
Bishop,CA
Dec 25, 2018 - 08:44am PT
Nice post DMT Thanks
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Dec 25, 2018 - 10:12am PT
Small World File M490867:

I had a girl friend in Seattle whose family owned Pacific Car and Foundry which bought
Peterbilt in 1958. I shoulda tried to get a discount on a rig.
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Dec 25, 2018 - 11:07am PT

DMT, You are invited to come down one day so we can go out to visit Bright's museum near Plainsburg.
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Dec 25, 2018 - 11:35am PT
Only moosedrool could pull that ^^^😆
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Jan 5, 2019 - 04:54pm PT
Show tractors are ok but I really get touched by working rigs. Saw this International 966 on a working dairy farm this afternoon near Clairmont NH have not been by my favorite tractor shop in awhile but was able to swing through there on my way to Wallmart Vision center. Not shure who came up with the name for these guys? I know DMT likes his crawlers
Lorenzo

Trad climber
Portland Oregon
Jan 5, 2019 - 06:18pm PT
Here’s a couple of units I ran across in Esquel, Argentina during a trip in October.
First is a Fordson tractor from the ‘20’s, I think


And next is a 1890’s steam engine that ran a threshing machine from J.I.Case.


And a 1916 smoke box door, which is a bit of Art.


I was born in Argentina because my dad sold Case machinery.
FRUMY

Trad climber
Bishop,CA
Jan 6, 2019 - 10:17am PT
Lorenzo

Trad climber
Portland Oregon
Jan 6, 2019 - 04:06pm PT
Not exactly a tractor, but close.

The mrs and I decided to take a ride on the Old Patagonian Express. It had been sold out for weeks, but we decided to tour the museum anyway.

I told the museum folks my dad also worked for Balwin-Lima-Hamilton, the kings of steam in the old days. All of a sudden I became royalty, since about 2/3 of the locos on the line were Baldwins and got invited to ride in the loco.

It was a German Henschel, not a Baldwin, but still pretty cool. Recently restored, it was spotless.


The machinador was Carlos, who can be seen through the window. He was intrigued when I told him his job in English was engineer. In Spanish, ingeniero is a guy with a pencil and slide rule.

norm larson

climber
wilson, wyoming
Jan 8, 2019 - 02:52pm PT
Here’s my beloved tractor. It’s a 1978 John Deere 1050, 4WD which is awesome, 60 inch blower unit mounted up front and a 72 inch blade on back. It chews thru the snow. I’ve owned it for 30 years and it still has less than 2000 hours on it. Great tool for winter.
norm larson

climber
wilson, wyoming
Jan 8, 2019 - 03:12pm PT
No BJ I’ve been here in Wyoming for 45 years.
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Jan 8, 2019 - 03:38pm PT
Another crawler for DMTthe seat on an old Oliver ford, cockshut, JD and International
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Jan 9, 2019 - 02:47am PT
I assumed it was JD just because the other two were???
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Jan 9, 2019 - 05:20am PT
enlarging the photo I am pretty Shure that I can read part of John Deer on the side.
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Jan 13, 2019 - 06:37pm PT
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Jan 20, 2019 - 10:02am PT
NTPA, Unlimited Modified, Canfield, Ohio, 9/3/11

[Click to View YouTube Video]
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Jan 20, 2019 - 01:34pm PT
Old girl doing her job today. No brakes for some reason?? I could not find a leak??? not loseing as much fluid as the pedal feel would indicate????
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Jan 20, 2019 - 02:18pm PT
certainly in that mode now. Not always enough with our steep road and stuff.....
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Jan 21, 2019 - 05:25am PT
Stunning that it even has any vacume pressure at all. She has kind of a crappy 79ish motor that had a bunch of early emmisions crap that is all missing. lots of open holes...
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Jan 21, 2019 - 06:38am PT
Norm. I love your front mounted snow blower! Hate the rear mounted rigs. My neck is too old and damaged for that action. Hurts just looking at them. Here are some more shots from a few weeks ago at the old tractor shop. I have a thing for old Olivers It was so cool to see one working the fields of south Dakota last summer this 880 is a bit too shiny for me but the real deal for shure.
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Jan 21, 2019 - 08:53am PT
I just did not see obvious leak in lines or wheel cylenders.. It is FCKING COLD here now. 5 below ish and windy. She did not want to start. Put the charger on for a bit and pulled the air cleaner for a direct prime. Purring out there now :)
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Jan 21, 2019 - 10:05am PT
so its actually 7 below f. got her running and plowed again. I had a tiny bit of brakes.. part of it was likely the snow was so deep that the drums are packed with snow. Still something else going on though.
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Feb 27, 2019 - 07:39am PT
just up the street from my sisters farm is a really run down place
jstan

climber
Mar 2, 2019 - 08:35am PT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgeB12LL57Q

Some action footage showing one of the many videos put out by a young fellow living in Saugerties
near the Gunks. He has more than 100,000 subscribers. Everything he does is interesting.

Andrew Camarata

Take look.
EdwardT

Trad climber
Retired
Mar 20, 2019 - 10:35am PT
From the "y'all ain't gonna believe this sh!t" file:

The family of Gregory Longenecker says the 51-year-old's civil rights were violated by authorities who crushed him to death with a bulldozer last year while trying to arrest him for growing fewer than a dozen marijuana plants, according to a federal lawsuit.

Longenecker, a short-order cook from Reading, Pa., had allegedly been secretly growing 10 pot plants deep in the woods of a game preserve in Berks County when a game commission employee discovered his car and called the police, the Washington Post reported. When they arrived, a friend who was accompanying Longenecker that day was arrested, but the life-long Grateful Dead fan fled into the heavy underbrush of the preserve.

An hours-long search ensued, with a helicopter tracking Longenecker's movements from above and two police departments combing the land, which was so thick with vegetation that a tracking dog could not even get through, according to the Post. The game commissioner who discovered Longenecker's plants had been driving a bulldozer, and one police officer, identified as Mark Weiss, reportedly got on the heavy machinery in an attempt to get through the landscape.

What happened next is hotly debated -- Pennsylvania State Trooper David Boehm first said Longenecker could not have died in a pursuit because there was no pursuit. Then, authorities concluded it was possible Longenecker had a heart attack while running from police. Next, Cops said they needed to use a bulldozer because "there's no way that you could walk through that stuff," the Washington Post reported.

One thing is certain: an autopsy revealed that Longenecker died of traumatic injuries, as "virtually all" of the bones and organs in his body from his pelvis to collar bone were "crushed, broken, and /or lacerated." An investigation by the Berks County District Attorney ruled his death as accidental.....

https://www.foxnews.com/us/family-suing-over-grateful-dead-mega-fan-and-pot-grower-who-was-crushed-to-death-by-police-driving-a-bulldozer
Jim Clipper

climber
Mar 29, 2019 - 08:39pm PT


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perswig

climber
Mar 30, 2019 - 03:46am PT



Not stock.
As is.

Dale
Norton

climber
The Wastelands
Mar 31, 2019 - 12:19pm PT
wow I love this thread!

Dingus, how can you possibly know so much about old tractors, grow up with em?
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Mar 31, 2019 - 04:31pm PT
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Brandon-

climber
The Granite State.
Apr 4, 2019 - 01:33pm PT
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Happiegrrrl2

Trad climber
Apr 4, 2019 - 04:02pm PT
I guess this is a tractor. Seen at the John Deere place in Colby, Kansas.
Climbsrox

Trad climber
seattle, wa
Apr 5, 2019 - 02:43pm PT
Just picked this up a couple days ago, well worth the drive from Seattle to Portland. 25 hp with shuttle shift and self leveling bucket, and about 320 lbs beet juice in the rear tires- Nice ride!

Yanmar 2210d


I had to get something bigger than my 1300d, which I was just going to destroy lifting logs! It sold for asking price in about 6 hours :)

Cheers

MH
Happiegrrrl2

Trad climber
Apr 8, 2019 - 06:30pm PT

Saw this one parked at a motel lot in Nebraska. Trailer has Arkansas plates. Tractor says "We don't need no stinkin' plates. Have some respect for yer elders, dang gummit."

There was no brand name on this tractor, but that's probably because the cover over the engine is MIA. It had E-15 stencil painted on the side.


tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Apr 9, 2019 - 03:28am PT
Happie,Looks like a Case or massey fergeson????
Q- Ball

Mountain climber
but to scared to climb them anymore
Apr 12, 2019 - 06:40am PT
Finally going to semi retire the ol' international aka "The Hoss"

Got the new JD 75 hp delivered this morning!


tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Apr 12, 2019 - 02:08pm PT
The Hoss looks totally Bad Ass!
Q- Ball

Mountain climber
but to scared to climb them anymore
Apr 30, 2019 - 09:32pm PT
Who has rolled a tractor? I admit my last one was 5 hours ago. Seat belts and roll bars are nice. Crap... Still pissed off, but got it upright...ughhh...
Q- Ball

Mountain climber
but to scared to climb them anymore
May 1, 2019 - 07:23am PT
Thanks BJ!
Chaz

Trad climber
Straight Outta Crafton
May 1, 2019 - 08:50am PT
Who has rolled a tractor?


Apparently, I hopped over the high side as it was tipping over. Seat belts would have killed me there.
jonnyrig

climber
May 1, 2019 - 10:06pm PT
hooblie

climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
May 28, 2019 - 04:48pm PT
L

climber
Just livin' the dream
May 28, 2019 - 04:53pm PT
This one's for you, Dingus....

John Duffield

Mountain climber
New York
May 28, 2019 - 05:24pm PT
I took this in Estonia last year. Tractor in the background could be nearly 100 years old.

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