I tried to take a little shortcut with the tractor the other day





here are some other pics I have taken around the farm , these ones from planting corn in the same field they were still chopping the grass off of:

 

And I almost got run over by this thing one day , I came out the driveway from one of the new barns and it came barrelling past me , the tractor does 30 MPH in 19th gear , and that truck was pulling away from me







and here are some random farm pics:

 

I think you did pretty good with your shortcut hehehe. I would move my hiney too if one of them came barrelin up on me too.Okay I see caution tape on the bridge,lol.Did you go through it?

 

It was probably there to keep folks from using the bridge as a short cut.

 

JKM,

Nice pix, thanks for posting them. Is the tractor still stuck, or did you get it out? 19 gears, wow.
I show the gradkiddlett the pictures of the farm so they get a better idea of the amound of hard work involved in farming.

 

You can't drive across the street without getting stuck, can you?

 

lol, as always that looks like you at least have some fun. Those are some nice pics, some really cool equipment you got there.

 

I need to take some pictures from around the farm. Well here is your stupid news of the day, I was hauling hay today with the 24ft gooseneck, our bales are 5' by 5.5' so we got a good 1.5' sticking over both sides. Some idiot passed me on a double yellow with that load on a narrow butt road, speed limit was 35mph and I was already up to about 40mph since I know the road real well. I wasn't allowing them much room beside me either cause I was dodging mail boxes on my right. I guess you can't fix stupid sometimes

 

just a thought, maybe you should consider just the 2 fwd tractors from here on out.

 

I am actually not sure why the caution tape is there , the bridge IS officially open , it has been since november

The tractor was out in a matter of minutes I will try and post up some more farming pictures, I have thousands of them.

Technically I don't think it was stuck it still moved ahead and back , just not far enough ahead or back

 

Here are some more pics (too many to post)

http://s113.photobucket.com/albums/n...10/2004-04-17/
http://s113.photobucket.com/albums/n240/JKM_010/work/

 

Heres a picture of the truck loaded up this afternoon, its time for the M8580 to get a clutch. It has been weak for some time now but the back seal has started leaking so its time to get it fixed. I have three jack straps and one log chain holding her down.

 

Bring that on up here to my place with some parts and i can replace the clutch in a matter of hours , i used to work on those for my living. w/o a loader , I can r&r a clutch in one of those in 3 hours if there are no snags ( bad cable , etc) about 4-4.5 hours if there is a loader installed.

 

I don't know where you're at but that looks like some nice rich soil on those tires!

 

I would have to switch trailers before I did that Wouldn't want to take that tandem one that far, would defanitly take our dual tandem.