What was your longest tractor ride?

[wh]

20 miles. Had to drive thru local town to get to farthest field. That was 30 years ago. Glad I don’t have to with today’s traffic.

 

[Goose]

About 7o miles with an 856 Farmall. I bought it on a farm auction and drove it home.

 

[John in MD]

We bought a JD4320 at a farm sale near Chestertown Md in November and decided to drive it home that day. Dad said not to worry he'd follow me home; well, he got bored and took off to get me a coffee, that's the last I saw of him until I got home around 8:30 that night. Started in Kent County then Cecil County crossed the Susquehanna at Conowingo, then Harford County (had to fill the tank again at Enfield's John Deere Dealership in Whiteford) then home to Baltimore County. 114 miles and took over 6 hours. I asked Dad what happened, and he said it looked like everything was running good and he had better things to do then get stuck behind me for the rest of the day. My revenge was when he got the bill for the fuel from the dealership in December.

 

[Texasmark]

no just stupid

I can relate to that.....over and over and over. Still making mistakes on how I am supposed to take care of my body at my age and seems I'm spending more time in the hospital.......buttttt I am learning....hospitals and the beds where you can't get out without an alarm going off certainly made me think what my priorities are.....currently doing better......can you imagine a farmer having to stay in bed for a week without getting out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!......and with nothing more than some bladder complications that had nothing to do with being bed ridden......I hate hospitals!!!!!!!

On the alarmed beds I was told that Medicare doesn't cover hospital patient falls so to simplify their paperwork, they just make you stay in bed!!!!!!!!!

 

[Larry H.]

My longest so far was 36 miles round trip, which I've done 3 times to the same event.

For many years I drove two tractors to & from Buckley Old Engine show . 31 miles one way.
All back roads - good rides.

20 miles. Had to drive thru local town to get to farthest field. That was 30 years ago. Glad I don’t have to with today’s traffic.

 

[centralilbaler]

My longest so far was 36 miles round trip, which I've done 3 times to the same event.

I'm guessing about 50 miles, disking mile long rows.

 

[the tractior vet]

My longest so far was 36 miles round trip, which I've done 3 times to the same event.

Tractor wise about 27 mile one way for a tractor pull back in the days when trailers were not the thing and a old Ford combine 42 miles at 7-8 mph on one of the hottest days of the year with LOSTS of pull offs and wait for traffic to clear took 10 and a 1/2 hours i was cooked well done by the time i pulled into the customer barn yard with the sun going down . MY GOOD Friend got me into this ordeal . Told him never to buy one of them again and think i was going to drive it to where it sold to . My 300 Massey was Slow on the road but it could atleast do 14 MPH. The rest of the time was usually 10 to 15 between farms . and the one with the 1805 Massey and eight bottoms that was 21 miles . that was interesting on our narrow hilly curvy roads and sometime plum scary .

 

[Davidj]

My longest so far was 36 miles round trip, which I've done 3 times to the same event.

About 65 miles. Bought an IH 584. Talked about floating it etc. but by the time all was said and done, was simpler just to drive it home. Was kind of a dull early April day too so nothing much was gonna go on outdoors anyway. Wife followed me about halfway before running out of patience….haha About five hours with a stop for a quick bite..

 

[Gary Mitchell]

My longest so far was 36 miles round trip, which I've done 3 times to the same event.

We used to "road" ours to "local" pulls. I think 50 miles round trip was probably close to top. I think SWMO1206 would have some tales in that area. gm

 

[onefarmer]

I drove somewhere around 200 miles a JD4320 from an auction when I was 14. My dad followed me and I just had to keep looking behind and turn when he signaled. Got home on the second day.

 

[560Dennis]

Remember pulling a junk car with the Farmall C 5 miles down the junkyard on Middle Road .

 

[wh]

As far as driving distance in a day — figure 4 mph for 10 to 12 hours a day for several days in spring, summer and fall. Miles would count up.

 

[miner09]

All Nebraska tractor drive last two years 100 miles each year. Two
Days 50 each day. Started at Franklin Fair Grounds. Drove TO35 first year and Ferguson F40 this year. Over 100 tractors both years in group

 

[docmirror]

I bought some land in Amalia NM, close to the CO border. Then, I found a med size road grader in Westcliffe CO about 126 miles north. The flat haul was going to be pricey because I had to cover the rig from Pueblo CO out to Westcliffe. It was late Feb, and I called both highway patrol for advice, and they said I could take it myself over highway if I had a const permit one time. Except, CO didn't want me on hwy 160, a high speed one lane. They said I needed to get approval from the local field office for that section. I contacted the field office in Alamosa, and they told me to call them when I got to hwy 160. The guy said I should plan on a Tue or Thur from 1-4PM for best possible access.

I got it going well, put an orange beacon on top and one of the 'slow vehicle' triangles and headed down 69. It was a gas engine and wouldn't stay in 4th gear except on a down grade. Limited to about 14MPH in 3rd. I left at 6AM on a Tue late Feb with no heater, but I had a cab. Turned off at Gardner and took a graded road over the pass west of Blanca peak. Got to 160 at 1:15, and called the local ofc back and they said 'wait there'. 20 min later a CO patrol showed up, we chatted a bit and he said lets go! We headed west, and I got it into 4th gear going down hill and did about 20MPH, All the way to Ft Garland. We stopped at the gas station I filled up, got the trooper a big coffee to go and he said I was fine going down 139 to San Luis. One of my fronts was leaking air, and I bought a can of goop and put that in for the last section. 139 is straight and flat for miles, easy to see a giant grader with a rotating light. I thanked him and headed south. Got to the cabin just as it was getting dark. I think it was 120 miles, but no odometer. Went inside and fired up the furnace and the wood stove.

 

[CaseandMoline]

Not the furthest, but the longest drive I had on a tractor was on a model C case (no road gear). The gas tank was dirty so it frequently stalled took about three hours to drive six miles.

 

[Mike(NEOhio)]

One tractor ride for out township's 200th anniversary in 2017. 15 miles on our E3. Delivered a load of hay a few times, 6-7 miles each way, not on main roads.

 

[John D 1908]

When I was a kid my dad let me take the riding lawn mower to a field to make a dirt bike path.

Between the trip there and back and the mowing of the path it was a full day.

About 3.5 miles in total, but on an 8 hp 36 inch 5 mph top speed mower it seemed a lot further than that.

The drive belt had to be replaced not long after that. . .

 

[MeanGene1]

Longest is a relative term- when I was 14, and it was planting time for the beans, so you know it was dawn 'til dusk 'til it was done time. I was still in school, so grams would pick me up after school and take me up to whichever farm we were working, and Saturday and Sunday were our big production days. So one evening it was time to move the two 706Ds with two 16ft drags and the disc from one farm to another, about a mile and a half. So I move one with a drag, he takes me back and I move the other one, and we unhook the "old" 706 at dusk, as he wants me to take it back over so he can get the disc in the morning. There's an intersection with a big change in elevation, with a little cutoff in the direction we were going, almost an uphill banked corner. There was also a fresh roadkill woodchuck in the center of the road on the cutoff, so I had just went off the road around it pulling the drags. So heading back, I had taken that uphill turn before and knew if I hit it hard I could make it without pulling the TA, but had my hand on it anyway. Here I come, by the light of the cowl headlights, going to straddle the woodchuck as the tires were out to 84" centers, no problem. As the lights came around, there's the woodchuck- and the huge skunk that was having him for a meal. I was committed and full speed and straddled them perfectly, except- gramps was right behind me in his pickup, windows down of course. The extremely agitated skunk rolled out downhill to the left and of course let loose a blast right into the window of the pickup. So I cruised over the last 1/4 mile and parked the tractor, curious why he was not right behind me. When he pulled in- dayum... It was a very long 5 miles to home from there- he never said a word. We had to park the Dodge out behind the shop for a couple weeks, and gramps took a lot of baths with all the old home remedies to get the stink off, and he slept in the guest bedroom downstairs for a week

 

[Kip-Utah]

300 miles from Oakes, North Dakota to Portage La Prairie, Manitoba, Canada on a 1939 Allis-Chalmers Hi-Crop tractor. We travelled 100 miles a day for three days. Our tractor club has a 25 mile caravan to the Iron County Fair in a couple weeks to recognize our 25 years as a club and America 250!

 

[Meangreen]

All the way across Nebraska. Twice.