Naming Tractors

ecard · May 10, 2001

I wanted to know if anyone names their tractor? I have seen pulling tractors with airbrushed names on them. I think I would call mine Poison Ivy Express (even though it is blue).

Just wondering....

Eric

skent · May 10, 2001

Eric,

I want to, but it seems all the one's I like have been taken already. Still searching. Don't know about the airbrusing though. . . .

Steve

RobS · May 10, 2001

Poison Ivy Express 

That seems like an appropriate name for my tractor right now /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

skent · May 10, 2001

How bout

mItchie-bota?!?

Steve

MJB · May 10, 2001

Since I have gained some experience using my loader and backhoe I think "Digger" would be appropriate./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

Fugitive from the Cubicle Police

Boondox · May 10, 2001

My L3010 is sweet Clementine, though my old B1750 remained nameless. I've even started toying with tractor lyrics to the old song...

Oh my darlin
Oh my darlin
Oh my darlin Clementine
I'd be lost in chores forever
Without you, my Clementine

In the meadow
In the forest
Mowing grass
and pullin logs...

I really think I'm losing it! /w3tcompact/icons/blush.gif

Pete

www.GatewayToVermont.com

RobS · May 10, 2001

Oh my darlin
Oh my darlin
Oh my darlin Clementine
I'd be lost in chores forever
Without you, my Clementine

In the meadow
In the forest
Mowing grass
and pullin logs...

... Pushing snow
Loved by dogs
Feeding chickens
as I limp...

Bird · May 10, 2001

I think "Digger" would be appropriate

It might be for you, but I can't use that one because that's my funeral director son-in-law's nickname./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

Bird

JOR_EL · May 10, 2001

Re: Naming Tractors /SUPERBABY

Hi Steve,

Sometimes a name just "comes along".

While I was first looking at tractors, I was showing the JD compact-tractor literature to an aquaintance. He says, humorously, " Oh, ..you're gonna get a BABY tractor!" Grrr! /w3tcompact/icons/mad.gif

Turns out he grew up on a multi-beaucoup acre place, where they used 8-wheeled monster ag-tracs, and he thinks these new compact-tractors are "cute" /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif .

I had been studyiing at TBN U. for awhile by then, and had a few ideas, courtesy of Mark Chalkley and such.

So I says, "Well, at least it'll be a SUPER-baby, when I get it finished!

After that,, whenever we'd see each other, he'd ask "Hey, ...how's that SUPERBABY coming along?"

And soon enough, I was responding in the same terms, as I described each new idea I'd had for SUPERBABY. /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

Well, the months went by, the tractor was ordered, and spent more time being fitted-out to become my "improved" version of a JD4700 HST.

And the more macho it became, the more respectfully he spoke of that "baby" tractor. /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

So now SUPERBABY sits in the drive, and calling it anything else just wouldn't fit!

( ...and NOBODY mistakes it for an ordinary baby ANYTHING!! /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif )

So hang-in-there, ...something will "come along"!

Larry /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

hayden · May 10, 2001

Mine is Gigantor, named after the giant Japanese monster that destroyed whole cities in the 60's sifi movie of the same name. It's reflective of my wife's view of what I accomplish when tractoring.