Dinner at subway...

[Smokeonthewater]

Ran into town for supper...
People surely think I'm crazy...

Couldn't care less

 

[Ultradog MN]

Nice.
I live in the city and drive my tractors
around a lot. Through McD's drive through,
up to Napa, to the local breakfast joint,
hardware store, gas station, etc.
Maybe people think I'm crazy too but I
always get a lot of waves, thumbs up and
honks.
Was a nice cool evening last night so I had
my tractor out for at least an hour long
ride - along the rail road yards this time.
Just tooling along about 30% throttle in
high gear. RR security saw me go by (not
supposed to be in there) but they just
turned their heads as if they didn't see
me. Old guy on an old tractor ain't likely
to be looting or stealing. Getaway ride is
too slow to get away. Same with the cops as
long as I stay off the main drag and in the
neighborhoods.

 

[TheOldHokie]

(quoted from post at 16:37:55 07/08/21) Ran into town for supper...
People surely think I'm crazy...

Couldn't care less

Fella that lives down the road from me drinks a bit and lost his license decades ago. He now drives his tractor to town. Around here tractors in the parking lot of BK or Mickey Ds is not newsworthy.

TOH

 

[wallytoo]

it would be at least a 10 mile ride to the nearest McD, BK, or subway around here...no chance i'm riding my tractor that long on roads.

 

[Smokeonthewater]

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This post was edited by Smokeonthewater on 07/08/2021 at 05:23 pm.

 

[Smokeonthewater]

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This post was edited by Smokeonthewater on 07/08/2021 at 05:23 pm.

 

[Smokeonthewater]

It's 5 mi here...

 

[Smokeonthewater]

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This post was edited by Smokeonthewater on 07/08/2021 at 05:24 pm.

 

[zuhnc]

20 miles here, but no KFC, only McD's and Taco Bell. If the 8N quits, the SO will say "use your phone to call someone else to get you back"! I would take the horse into town, though. zuhnc

 

[cleddy]

We had a guy that drank a lot and he drove his John Deere B all over the place. Would stop in to visit and be drunk
and used to have beer stashed all over on that tractor. He eventually got a Massey Harris he drove and sometimes
pulled a old steel wheel manure spreader with some junk in it. We enjoyed his little visits as he could not be to
drunk to drive.

 

[Tim PloughNman Daley]

I lived in a small town/village rural area and back in the 1990's and there was a local Mom & Pop Grocery Store (still there by the way)about a mile away on the main road. They had a gas pump island out front with two pumps -Regular and Premium. Sometimes you would have Mom or Pop pump your gas too. I would drive my 8N up to the store to fill up with gas all the time and maybe a six-pack of Pabst for after all the work was done. By the late 90's with the new EPA Restrictions, the owners were forced to remove the pumps so no longer sold gas. EPA said once the steel tanks reached a certain age limit, they had to be removed (rusted out thus seepage into the ground) at the owner's expense and replaced if they wanted to keep pumping gas. Needless to say many places like this couldn't afford that so just they pulled their pumps and no longer offered gas. There was another Mom & Pop store a mile further up the road and they suffered the same fate. I've moved 7 miles away now but the farm was 12 miles away and I drove my N back and forth often on main roads. It's legal as long as you have an SMV sign (those orange triangle signs for you city folk)on your rear tractor or implement. Check your state for the laws.

Tim Daley(MI)

 

[Smokeonthewater]

Also sometimes called a 'farmer tag'

 

[AZglide]

You mean the slow moving mailbox signs?

 

[Richard G.]

Fellow near here takes his 2 mules and wagon to town quite a bit.
Richard in NW SC

 

[Jim WI]

(quoted from post at 07:24:03 07/09/21) I lived in a small town/village rural area and back in the 1990's and there was a local Mom & Pop Grocery Store (still there by the way)about a mile away on the main road. They had a gas pump island out front with two pumps -Regular and Premium. Sometimes you would have Mom or Pop pump your gas too. I would drive my 8N up to the store to fill up with gas all the time and maybe a six-pack of Pabst for after all the work was done. By the late 90's with the new EPA Restrictions, the owners were forced to remove the pumps so no longer sold gas. EPA said once the steel tanks reached a certain age limit, they had to be removed (rusted out thus seepage into the ground) at the owner's expense and replaced if they wanted to keep pumping gas. Needless to say many places like this couldn't afford that so just they pulled their pumps and no longer offered gas. There was another Mom & Pop store a mile further up the road and they suffered the same fate. I've moved 7 miles away now but the farm was 12 miles away and I drove my N back and forth often on main roads. It's legal as long as you have an SMV sign (those orange triangle signs for you city folk)on your rear tractor or implement. Check your state for the laws.

Tim Daley(MI)

Yep. My dad was thinking about buying a small country store to retire to. He thought the gas pumps out front were a plus (he'd owned a service station for twenty years). I told him to look into it further because I'd heard something about needing a $1 million insurance policy in case the tanks leaked. He checked and sure enough, there was no way to make the pumps pay for themselves. Sometime later we noticed that the pumps were gone at the store.

 

[Smokeonthewater]

Went to town again tonight for the car show

 

[Btzj02]

"Went to town again tonight for the car show"


Good idea. I may have to do that too!

 

[Leroy]

Or gate signs or even rocks? And we drove on roads before those SMV signs were thought of. I said when they first came out required you could meet a tractor and implement and know make, model and year of tractor and same for implement and when past wondered if he had the SMV sign. That is what I thought of and still do of those signs. Usueless.

 

[Tim PloughNman Daley]

Amish? Mennonite? Lots where I'm from. They must have a SMV sign on the backs of their carriages but once in a while there is a fatal accident on the main roads as stupid city people don't pay attention nor know the laws and are in such a hurry to get nowhere fast.

Tim Daley(MI)

 

[Tim PloughNman Daley]

What many don't understand, city folks mostly, is the SMV sign was designed for a SLOW MOVING VEHICLE. It was supposed to be used only for that but you see toeheads putting them out at their mailboxes and marking their drives. Technically that is illegal but even many law enforcement agencies and officers don't know this. Check your state's laws. In Michigan it states that a SMV sign must be placed at rear most of the last vehicle centrally set at eye level. I know when I would drive to and from my farm on the main road, about 12 miles, the speed limit is 55 MPH but idiots would go 80 or more, then honk and flip me off or throw junk at me -bottles, cans, fast food, and/or various liquids.

Tim Daley(MI)

 

[AZglide]

Yep. Ive had them ride behind me blowing the horn. Its irritating but I just write it off to another idiot that doesnt know where his food comes from.

 

[8NChris]

(quoted from post at 16:14:15 07/09/21) Went to town again tonight for the car show

aking a tractor into town is acceptable and normal. It is the fellows that have had their truck, driver license and horse taken away that drive their lawnmowers into town. Seems women have more dignity.

EDIT: Nice line up with Corvette.

This post was edited by 8NChris on 07/11/2021 at 06:36 pm.

 

[wallytoo]

to be sure, if i lived in a relatively flat location, i would drive the tractor a bit further. but, central NH is not generally flat for any long distance. anything more than about 3 miles and i'm putting the tractor on the trailer and towing it to the destination. 12 miles in any direction from me involves a lot of significant hills, and very little breakdown lane width. just not worth it.

now, my F-i-L, in MI, drove his tractor, towing a wagon full of stuff, from Ann Arbor up to Boardman/Fifth Lake, about 165 miles as the crow flies. NO THANK YOU, i'm never doing that. :roll:

wally

This post was edited by wallytoo on 07/12/2021 at 01:19 pm.