I should buy a tractor
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Look at the clearance and flex! Beats the hell out of my Jeep.
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Not even lying, I've had the same thoughts. I've been getting recommend Ford 9N's and Farmall H's on my Facebook Marketplace for $3,000. I don't have the space or need for one, but the idea of driving one around town sounds dumb and fun for me.
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@carsoffortlangley would not do without roll over protection. Sketchy!
Enjoy every sandwich.
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@jeepoftheseus you only live once*
*this life may be shortened by offroading a tractor.
Curator
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@carsoffortlangley but WHAT a life
'88 AMC Eagle, '15 Husky FE350S -Oppo Never Dies!
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@rctothefuture I grew up around Farmalls, actually being used for farm duty (My dad has like 15 H's and M's in his collection now).
If you do get one, never forget that they are simple and crude machines. The only safety devices on them are the little flaps that lock the brakes, and maybe the fenders if they are still installed. They max out at about 25mph on the road, but are damn sketchy at that speed. Steering often has 3 inches of slop, there is zero suspension, and the brakes only work on the rear wheels and don't pull straight.
I lost an uncle to a tractor, he didn't realize it was in gear when he was trying to hand start it. Plus, there were a lot of farmers from my dad's generation with missing fingers or arms because of the PTO. Never forget that even a little tractor is a serious machine built before the time of OSHA.
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@sn4cktimes said in I should buy a tractor:
@carsoffortlangley but WHAT a life
Lived it. It sucked. I got out with all my extremities, so I'm ahead of the game.
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@cobrajoe said in I should buy a tractor:
I lost an uncle to a tractor, he didn't realize it was in gear when he was trying to hand start it. Plus, there were a lot of farmers from my dad's generation with missing fingers or arms because of the PTO. Never forget that even a little tractor is a serious machine built before the time of OSHA.
Absolutely. Don't be like John Thompson.
Never discount the possibility that you might live through it.
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@carsoffortlangley would love one. We bought a 6x6 polaris instead. Mostly does the job
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Is that a static display? Took some bravery to drive that up onto the rocks!
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@ibrad It's a static display of an adventure company I passed by offroading yeah. I would have loved to watch them get it up there
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@carsoffortlangley I wonder if they drove it onto there or lifted it onto there...
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@carsoffortlangley My father once bought a 1948 Ford 9N to clear acres of brush at my grandma's house. He used the tractor and a brush hog for about a year or two and then sold it all for exactly what he had into it. It was a neat old piece of machinery.
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@sovande I have considered that or similar for snow removal duties.
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@ibrad He bought a fully restored (mechanically) unit from a guy in the Midwest and had it trailered to Virginia. I think he paid about $4000, all in. It was cool as shit and I haven't thought about it in years. I lived in a different state at the time so I only saw it a handful of times and only drove it once for a real short time before he sold it on.
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@carsoffortlangley My grandparents on mom's side had a small farm for most of their life, though they stopped farming it before I was born. Granddad bought a Ford 9N brand new way back in the '50s and kept it until he passed away, safely tucked away in the barn and bringing it out every so often to move things around on the property or use some of the old implements for it to cut the field or the like once and awhile. I don't think there was ever ONE time that old girl didn't start.
I remember playing on and around it as a kid and always loved when he brought it out. It was getting shabby in it's old age, but still solid and functional
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@carsoffortlangley I've wanted an 8N or maybe an M Farmall for 20 years.
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@bicyclebuck that’s a wild story. I grew up watching those safety videos at every annual appreciation dinner that the local John Deere dealer had. Nothing like watching some (highly dramatized but not gory) PTO accidents before a nice meat and three meal.
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@cobrajoe exactly right. My stepbrother went to a high-school that had a "Tractor Day" were local farmers kids rode their tractors to school and it was fun to watch. Learned on a Farmall how to drive one and they really are sketchy animals to say the least. I feel as a Wisconsim boy I'm not doing part if I don't own and drive a tractor, in some capacity.
A pound of caution is worth a lifetime of normality with farm equipment.
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@cobrajoe but was this serious tractor useage? Or F-around tractor useage?
'88 AMC Eagle, '15 Husky FE350S -Oppo Never Dies!
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@carsoffortlangley I don't know about flex, but they certainly have clearance and the gearing is almost enough to climb walls. Near where I used to live, there was a very steep sand track that led to a beach that was very popular with salmon fishers. Many a four-wheel drive got stuck climbing back up, so a local farmer had a sign up at the start of the track with a radio frequency to call on and an offer to tow your car out with his tractor... for $250.
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@carsoffortlangley Every condo dweller needs a tractor!
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@sn4cktimes Serious tractor usage.
When I was a kid, we had 3 Farmall Ms and an H that were used for everything around the farm. Grinding feed, mowing grass, scraping dirt, pulling wagons, cultivating, cutting and raking hay, scooping pig crap. He had a couple of newer tractors for the big agricultural implements, but everything else was done with an M or an H. It was a very rare day when we didn't have to start up a tractor for something.
The fear of the machinery was repeated almost daily, and reinforced at any ag related community event. But, even as careful as we were, my mom got pins in her ankle from stepping on a PTO shaft (Not sure I heard the whole story there), and my grandpa lost the tip of his finger (I don't remember the story at all there).
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@carsoffortlangley You should. I did.
Also, my drill is bigger than yours ...
(#nothing to compensate for #big wheels ftw #farm life #slow day at work)
