The Tractor Thread

[Mary Stetler]

Interesting, but more AI. From the description on Youtube, "Disclaimer: This content showcases AI-generated restoration. Visuals and transformations are created using artificial intelligence and may not represent real-life processes."

Give away: at 2:37 in the video, the tractor is riding on the trailer and the back wheels are "rolling".

It is real as are many of them. When a video starts with a tractor up in a tree, I get suspicious. I have spent a lot of hours on tractors and yet to operate one that can fly.

I have seen trees grow through things but I didn't let them get as far as the one in the tractor. It is annoying when you go out and find one growing around and through a wooden fence and you need to cut it out. Box elders are fast and sneaky like that.

 

[Jake Smith]

I had the same experience on a couple of old tractors and wanted to tell this guy that a full flush and inspection of the gas tank and line should be the first thing. I have done some nice carb cleaning jobs, just to crap it up again with rust from the gas tank. I had one that someone put milo in the gas tank. Probably some farmers wife that had enough of his tractor obsession. I got it for $50. It was an old orange Allis Chalmers. I sold it for $250. That was around 1970.

Could be, that, "wife's" do get mad. Tractors are a good investment, I bought the 1950 Ferguson for $250, sold it for $1000, and to me, that's a profit.

 

[Faye Fox]

 

[Marie Mallory]

Time for Jake to get back on the tractor, I've kept him too busy with me, so maybe today he can go on tractor for a while.

 

[Faye Fox]

Time for Jake to get back on the tractor, I've kept him too busy with me, so maybe today he can go on tractor for a while.

Maybe a tractor drive would help you connect with your inner healing. It can be therapeutic like a horse ride, but much safer at our age.

Photo evidence of old folks using tractors for healing.

 

[Marie Mallory]

Maybe a tractor drive would help you connect with your inner healing. It can be therapeutic like a horse ride, but much safer at our age.

Photo evidence of old folks using tractors for healing.

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I guess Jake could use his cherry picker to put me on it.Jake put running boards on van and a grab bar inside door which really help's getting in and out of van.
Faye, Jake said tell you he really liked the tractor parade post you put up.

 

[Don Alaska]

I guess Jake could use his cherry picker to put me on it.Jake put running boards on van and a grab bar inside door which really help's getting in and out of van.
Faye, Jake said tell you he really liked the tractor parade post you put up.

I have a photo somewhere of my 92-year old MIL sitting on a cart being pulled by her daughter with a Craftsman lawn tractor that we had at the time. She was a tough old lady who grew up on a farm in Iowa.

 

[Connie Bennett]

Many schools in Middle Tennessee allow a “Drive Your Tractor To School Day” in support of the FFA and Ag Week, Thankfully it is still a big deal. These tractors came out of the fields to enjoy their Five Minutes Of Fame”

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[Ken Anderson]

We didn't have a sanctioned "drive your tractor to school day," but about a dozen of us decided to do that once. My dad had a large tractor that he used for most things, along with a small Ford tractor, so I took the Ford, since he wouldn't let me take the other one.

 

[Ken Anderson]

I lived in an agricultural area too, but we didn't typically drive tractors to school. The thing to have, if you couldn't afford a really fast car, was a pickup truck.

 

[Beth Gallagher]

I lived in a rural area, too. I don't recall anyone ever driving a tractor to school. In fact, most of us were poor kids and just rode the bus to school, though a few kids had some kind of car or truck to drive.

 

[Jake Smith]

Today; I went out on my tractor and recut the trench in front then graded the road making it smooth for my "neighbors". One of them stopped and talked a while, and told me he's 75 now, and never thought he would be busier now than he was before he retired. I told him, myself too, I have more to do than "ever" before, I told him Marie did some squats she deen on U-tube, and been down for almost 6 months now, giving me even more to do.






Got back in after grading and washed tractor again; before putting it in the barn, thinking Marie thinks, I care too much, for it.

 

[Faye Fox]

I can't ever remember washing a tractor, except in places with diesel to remove grease for repairs.

 

[Connie Bennett]

I can't ever remember washing a tractor, except in places with diesel to remove grease for repairs.

If the JD is covered in mud, I will use the fire hose nozzle to clean it off, before the mud dries. It lives in the garage attached to the house, so another reason to keep it fairly clean.

The Ford 3000 generally gets the weed stickers, etc. blown off with the air compressor, if too much has gathered on it after Bushogging. I can almost always clean that stuff out of the JD with a couple of different style brushes.

 

[Beth Gallagher]

Today; I went out on my tractor and recut the trench in front then graded the road making it smooth for my "neighbors".

Is that helping to keep people from driving in your yard, Jake?

 

[Jake Smith]

Is that helping to keep people from driving in your yard, Jake?

It really has Beth; "surprisingly", enough. I told the 75 year old neighbor guy today, about how everyone seems to just want to drive in toward our fence, and I put the trench to stop them from doing it, because; I have no desire to cut grass for everyone to spend there wheels on it.

 

[Don Alaska]

I lived in a rural area, too. I don't recall anyone ever driving a tractor to school. In fact, most of us were poor kids and just rode the bus to school, though a few kids had some kind of car or truck to drive.

I didn't live outside town, but the farm kids near me growing up would have taken hours to get to school each way on a tractor. They all rode busses.

 

[Beth Gallagher]

I didn't live outside town, but the farm kids near me growing up would have taken hours to get to school each way on a tractor. They all rode busses.

Yep; most lived out in the boonies and it would have been dangerous to have a tractor on the highway before good daylight. My nephew was moving a big tractor from one field to another and drove a quarter of a mile down the shoulder of a state highway. He was clipped by an 18 wheeler and nearly rolled over. Tractors are not meant for driving around on public thoroughfares.

 

[Faye Fox]

I didn't live outside town, but the farm kids near me growing up would have taken hours to get to school each way on a tractor. They all rode busses.

No kid was ever late to school, on drive your tractor to school day, driving a 1938 Allis Chalmers model U. Top speed 67 MPH.

 

[Connie Bennett]

To be clear on driving the tractors to school:

This was a one time thing in the spring, sort of a senior prom day, with the tractor as the date and every farm kid with parental permission Drove one of the family tractors.

. Every one was involved from the Parents, to the school, to the local police.

It isn’t like they do this Willy nilly frequently