Do you Text message while driving the tractor

[cowboy357]

once again my appologies I understand using all caps is considered yelling . wasnt my intention , i cant spell either if anyone wants to point that out . . & I type with both hands using one finger on both . Didnt mean to offend anyone .

just makes my point stronger though imo . good to see we have grammer police & safety police to keep everyone in line.

 

[Willl]

Nor that it mattered

It don't, was just curious.

 

[RobS]

I don't, but perhaps for a different reason. I used my MP3 player with my worktunes earmuffs last time mowing (BTW, kind of a poor excuse for MP3 input in those). Anyway, when done I found that the fine dust from mowing had gotten into the keys on my player. It was in my pocket, but not sealed. It's fine, but my lesson is learned. I'll keep my electronics in a ziplock while mowing, which pretty much precludes texting. Of course, there are many other reasons, as others have already mentioned.

 

[WH401]

once again my appologies I understand using all caps is considered yelling . wasnt my intention , i cant spell either if anyone wants to point that out . . & I type with both hands using one finger on both . Didnt mean to offend anyone .

just makes my point stronger though imo . good to see we have grammer police & safety police to keep everyone in line.

BTW, I wasn't trying to get on you, no problems with the caps.

 

[RalphVa]

Sounds like a very dangerous thing to do.

Ralph

 

[kebo]

I really don't see how someone could concentrate on texting while trying to operate a tractor at the same time. It's tough enough to drive a car (with auto trans) and talk on cell phone at the same time, which I have done in the past myself. I'm sure if you were like bushhogging an old meadow or field and you weren't really trying to make it look nice, you could get away with that. But, trying to text and keep some really straight rows at the same time?? To answer the question, no I don't text and drive at the same time. Just a dangerous thing to do, imho. If I need to use the phone, I stop the tractor.

 

[radioman]

I''ll read a text but not text back. Too many things going on and kids around for safety.

 

[MtnViewRanch]

No texting for me. If I could, I wouldn't, but that is something that I don't need to worry about, cell phones don't work where I use my tractors.

 

[CurlyDave]

I can sometimes hear the phone ring while my tractor is running, most of the time it is not noticeable due to diesel.

If I want to make a call, I have to stop & shut off engine. A great safety feature.

I have never liked texting.

 

[mjncad]

My rule for cell phones and vehicles is, "Hang up and drive, or park and talk."

In other words...**** NO I don't yak/text and drive!

 

[J35]

Heck I must be a dinosaur, I don't own a cell phone.

good luck

 

[Sackett2]

texting is a waist of time for me.
I keep my phone on and in my pocket. when field mowing last week it rang, I killed the tractor and answered the call from Mom. She was worried, dad was out past his bedtime.
If it had beed a friend, sorry, i'll talk later.

 

[Skyco]

I can sometimes hear the phone ring while my tractor is running, most of the time it is not noticeable due to diesel.

If I want to make a call, I have to stop & shut off engine. A great safety feature.

I have never liked texting.

Hearing the phone ring or feeling it vibrate doesn't work for me either on the tractor. I'm waiting for the model with the built in cattle prod that zaps me to get my attention

I don't like sending texts either, although receiving them is fine. Too dang hard to type it on the keys where 3 letters are on each one. Years ago I had a RIM with a full keyboard and the whole thing was tiny, no bigger than a small cellphone, now it was handy. It had a dedicated network, didn't use cellphone technology. I have no idea if it even still exists. Seems all the phones with a full keyboard are much bigger.

 

[Iplayfarmer]

I'll take my little flip phone with a simple number pad any day over a clunky QWERTY phone. I had a smartphone with a full keypad for about 3 months. I tried really hard to like that phone, but in the end I went back to a separate phone and PDA. The smart phone was just too complicated to be a good phone and too simplistic to be a good PDA.

I can pick out a text message faster on a number pad than I can on a QWERTY thumb pad. What I won't do is use the faddish text abbreviations. Even though I'm sending a text, I still want to sound like an adult.

 

[Tig]

No. Part of the beauty of the tractor is the isolation.

 

[welderboy14]

i know it is a little off topic but did you know cellphones cause BRAIN TOMERS and CANSUER

 

[billsh96]

I haven't even figured out all of the buttons on the cell phone yet ! And I don't want to. After I retired, the tech stuff became less important. Now riding the ATV and playing with the tractor is what it is all about. The internet gets used for ATV and Kubota reasearch, and I like it this way.
Bill

 

[bontai_Joe]

I don't text while operating ANYTHING, in fact I usually leave the phone in the house if I am working outside. Folks recently feel that with all the portable crap to communicate with, that I'm available 24 hours a day. I don't use the phone while in the bathroom (STRICT rule!!!) I don't use the phone while eating, driving, in church, at the movies, or visiting with friends. I will not answer my phone while in the check out line at the store, while conversing with a live human, or listening to any of my favorite songeson the radio, or watching any of my favorite TV shows. You probably see a pattern here, yep I hate being interupted by the **** phone, and since I am the one that pays for it, it gets used at MY convenience, no one elses.

 

[GreenWannabe]

I do have a cell phone, for several years it was my only phone - but I purchased it strictly to be a Phone! I detest texting, so of course my (grown) daughter insists upon texting me. And then gets mad when I don't immediately respond even if no response is required. Why the ding dong can't she just call me, knowing how I feel? Because she hates the telephone....

 

[Willl]

i know it is a little off topic but did you know cellphones cause BRAIN TOMERS and CANSUER

I also understand they play heck on your spelling abilities.