Hey lurkers

[Jagmandave]

I find it easier to ask forgiveness than permission.......... /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

I bought my tractor before I found TBN, so I'm a reverse lurker? /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

 

[Dodgeram]

I too are a tractorholic. True story:
Back in November on an unusually warm fall day, wife and I were heading down the road in the pickup, we were passing a house and there was a nice Kubota TLB (going to fast to see model), and I started drooling (that could have been old age?).
Wife ask what were you looking at? Seems there was a woman in shorts washing the car somewhere near the TLB.
I can honestly say I missed that /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif
Yeah, I gots it bad /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

 

[IslandTractor]

DodgeRam,

You are showing your wisdom not age. Cute chicks provide pleasing momentary eye candy and occasionally offer some saddle time but a tractor...now that is a source of dependable seat time with no need to ask permission or put up with irrelevant BS the other 23hrs a day. No matter how good the babe in shorts looks right now, someone, somewhere is tired of her cr*p. Gimme the tractor every time (well almost every time). /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

I don't want to get off topic, but I betcha a comparison (on TBN of course) of the benefits and costs of spending time or dealing with maintenance issues with a woman vs a tractor would not be too kind to the fairer ***. But we won't go there. I just need to keep remembering not to attempt to change my sweetie's hydraulic fluid when I hear her whine.

 

[Jrrcorp]

A great big "WELL DONE TO ALL!" This was one of the best written posts I have ever seen here! You can tell it has been a long winter and many of us are suffering from a lack of seat time. Let us now all take a knee and pray for warm dry weather so we might once again enjoy everlasting happiness onboard our favorite machine be it orange, blue or green. /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

 

[firemanpat2910]

Hi my name is Patrick and I am a Tractorholic.
I need more implements, I need a hyd top link,
Ineed a bigger trailer, I need ...........

I need HELP. It took me almost 40 years to get my tractor.
after using everone elses It sure is nice to have my own.
I keep looking for reasons to go to TSC. Florida weather
lets me get seat time almost every weekend. cant wait for
the time to change so their will be daylight after work

 

[awlchu]

Hi my name is Brian and I am a Tractorholic.

The other day my wife asked me why I was calling her "deere" more often! I just responded with a smile. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[SnoFalls]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Hi my name is Brian and I am a Tractorholic.

The other day my wife asked me why I was calling her "deere" more often! I just responded with a smile. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif )</font>

be caeful with that ... a one sided conversation of the form ...

"yea, I got some seat time in a new deere"
...
"sure was sweet, can't wait to get rid of the old one"
...
"well, the ol one's been actin up. just not the same anymore"
...
"yea, of course I have to get rid of the old one ... but the new one will be much easier to get started, and then just hum right along with the work I put into her."

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[IslandTractor]

Snofalls and Brian,

I think you guys have identified an important varient subtype of tractorphilia in which the particular brand obsession complicates both diagnosis and management. As you have noted, the "Deere" group may have higher rates of misdiagnosis leading to injuries inflicted by spouses. Similarly, the ASPCA may become involved before mental health professionals in certain cases when patients mutter about coyotes in the garage or hooking up attachments to coyotes to work on a farm.

Other new varients are being decribed as well. One particularly common type may have unusual reactions to seeing colored objects especially while driving. I believe DodgeRam may have this subtype. What is absolutely fascinating is that while all members of this group rubberneck while driving, the stimulus is not consistent. Individual patients respond to DIFFERENT colors. It is reported that there are patients who turn only to observe orange objects while other patients respond similarly only to red, blue or green objects. In addition to the sudden turning of the head, these patients also lose track of conversations during these color induced seizures. Spousal reports are the most accurate means of identifying patients with this varient illness as the patients rarely report the problem themselves.

I must say that it feels as though we are discovering more and more about this complicated illness every day. Freud must have experienced similar excitement as he started to unravel the psyche. I wonder, by the way, what color tractor he would have owned?

 

[SnoFalls]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( I wonder, by the way, what color tractor he would have owned? )</font>

probably gray ... that or his mothers favorite color /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[IslandTractor]

I understand his tractor's seat was modified into a semi reclining couch as well. /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

 

[1948berg]

What is it with other peoples eyes? Ask your wife what she noticed the last time you were out driving. The answer; Curtains! you can have driven past 10 tractors, and she sees curtains! The disease we are talking of is much more widespread than we think of. I used to work for a sewage pipe inspection company (TV inspection) I still notice every manhole cover in the roads as I drive along! I have a friend working in electric power supply, he only notices poles! I wont even think of people hooked on trains!
Admit your (our) addiction, and learn to live with it! There is no cure! http://www.morguefile.com/imageData/LOWREZ/2004_07_08_-_01_-_Oslo_kumlokk.JPG

 

[IslandTractor]

<font color="blue"> I have a friend working in electric power supply, he only notices poles!</font>

Wow, he must have a hard time driving if he's distracted by telephone poles. And I though we tractorphiliacs had it tough.

 

[Anders]

Ok. I'm definitively hooked and not ashamed of it!

When I first found TBN I was searching for knowledge about an old Iseki that wouldn't start after changing the starter.

Then I started reading the different forums as it wasn't much of activity in the Iseki forum. I was totally colourblind as I was reading, but always came back to the kubota forum.

Junk (If you read this, let the world know that I miss you), Henro and a whole other bunch of people were having what looked like fun in there. I guess I had finally found someone who weren't ashamed of saying that they liked digging in the earth with their machines.

After having spent a fortune on repairing my Iseki at at local dealer it only started two times more.

I was so angry and fed up by then that I parked the Iseki, got on the net and started searching for a new tractor.

It was very easy for me to buy a tractor in the USA after having received a couple of quotes from local dealers.

So I had to find a dealer that I could pay up front. Where did I search for him? TBN...

Then I had to say what I wanted to buy. I bought the boxblade because you guys said I should. I had never even seen one. But I have been using it a lot.

When receiving the tractor I was slightly dissapointed of it's size. It was...small? But when starting it up I was surprised of it's sound. It's a real powerhouse somewhere in there.

So thanks to this place I bought a boxblade I didn't know what to use for, a sub-compact tractor in a colour I had never seen and trusted a stranger with 17000$ thanks to his reputation here.

And now? I'm happy! It's a small tractor, but with a lot of grunt in it. It's the perfect size for me and I wouldn't want to go bigger on this place.

So now that I have got the tractor I must confess that I have got an ilness that makes me want a new and bigger one. I can't justify it all all. So now I need to get me some land so I can justify it. Not that I can afford it. It's more like a little devils voice telling me to buy a small farm so I can have more fun with bigger toys...

What can I say? I have a kubota logo on my cell-phone, talk with my friends about tractors and get strange looks and comments all the way...

And the Iseki? It's still parked in a corner. Some day I'll take it back out and get it fixed. Because I can't sell it. I don't need it as it only sits here, but I sure can't sell it.

I always have my soulmates here. It might be strange to the rest of the world, but to me it's what I want. And need /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif