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radair
Social climber
North Conway, NH
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May 12, 2016 - 11:09am PT
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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.
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radair
Social climber
North Conway, NH
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May 12, 2016 - 11:36am PT
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That thing must have been terrifying to operate at full throttle. Or a shitload of fun, one or the other.
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Stone Cowboy
Trad climber
Livermore, CA.
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May 12, 2016 - 09:13pm PT
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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!
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Scole
Trad climber
Zapopan
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Jun 29, 2016 - 04:53pm PT
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jstan
climber
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Jun 29, 2016 - 09:33pm PT
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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.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Your best shot EVAH!
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perswig
climber
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Sep 27, 2016 - 06:51pm PT
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Dale
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i-b-goB
Social climber
Wise Acres
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Sep 27, 2016 - 07:31pm PT
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the Fet
climber
Tu-Tok-A-Nu-La
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Sep 27, 2016 - 09:26pm PT
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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
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Sep 28, 2016 - 03:07am PT
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Took this shot in alberta this summer. this is Rt1 the main divided hwy that runs east west
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perswig
climber
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Oct 17, 2016 - 04:35pm PT
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Dale
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perswig
climber
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Oct 19, 2016 - 02:46am PT
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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
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Nov 11, 2016 - 06:49pm PT
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Nov 26, 2016 - 01:20am PT
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big john Deer at rest. turkey day at my sisters
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Nov 26, 2016 - 03:59am PT
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took this shot for Dingus this summer in SD
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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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
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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