Security & Theft Stolen tractor!

txdon · May 17, 2005

I see you will have to send you wife to the tractor DETOX center. Too bad. If you remember, you are probably to blame. Remember last December when you gave her a chainsaw as a gift. Yep, it starts off small and the next thing you know your are sitting in the kitchen with an apron wondering when did this start? What ever you do do not regress. Immediately put this photo on your refrigerator to start the detoxing process. (No smiley here, this is serious!!!)

Mike, Is your 20 acres in Lee County, if it is this is even more serious! /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

thcri · May 17, 2005

Mike,

It is nobody's fault but your own. Many men here have said the wives have to stay away. So far to date after three years my wife has not much touched the tractor. And she grew up on a farm and drove for her dad many times. But I have watched her very close and so far she has only touched it once. My problem is while watching my wife my daughter stole the tractor. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

But if your like me you will enjoy watching them run the tractor as much as running it yourself.

murph

RonR · May 17, 2005

Well, I'm one that enjoys watching the wife have fun on the Kubota also! One of the first things we did with ours was rip out some old irrigation lines. I could have done it myself, but it would have involved getting on and off the tractor hundreds of times. With her driving, I was able to pull and re-attach a small chain to the irrigation lines and give her simple hand signals for up/down, forward/back. She enjoyed it and we did it in less than half the time it would have taken me by myself.

She'll never want to drive it on or off the trailer or do up close work. Nor will she want to do dirt leveling. She'll let me enjoy that.

But I'm thrilled she enjoys it and knows how to operate it.........

Ron

hobbyfarm · May 17, 2005

Wife Help 101:
( wife sat in the truck listening to the radio and watching )
If you let them watch too close, they get the idea - "Hey, I can drive that, it don't look so hard."
Honey, you don't drive a tractor, you operate it. Look at all those levers, you don't know what they all do, but you have to use all them levers.

( she cried about not having anything to do to be able to help )
Honey, I could sure use a cold glass of ice tea, or this would be a great time to visit your sister or that recipe you've been wanting to try, I'd love to try it when I get back from cuttin' the pasture.

( I made the mistake of showing her how to run the pto & mower )
Honey, this thing throws stuff at you, and I'd hate to see you get hurt.

See? If your good, she'll never know. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

mikim · May 18, 2005

/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif That's good Don - /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif ... 20 acres is 4 miles due south of Paige in Bastrop County.... From Paige it's 3 miles S on Old Pin Oak Rd - 1 mile E on Antioch - then 1 mile S on St Delight. (distances are ~ about) haven't actually measured it yet.

Ozarker · May 18, 2005

Same here. My wife grew up on a farm in Iowa and has many hours of seat time on her dad's Farmall. She won't even look at my tractor and says it will be a cold day in heck before she ever gets on another one.

JeffRey30747 · May 18, 2005

You could tell her that you don't know if the brakes are working correctly or not. My wife still won't operate the Yanmar although I have told her that I fixed the brakes some time ago. She will operate the Kubota though, just not as much since she managed to stick it between two trees.
However, I suspect that there may be than meets the eye to this. If we both happen to be on a tractor at the same time, she gets a four year old Kubota and I end up with a twenty-five year old Yanmar. Hmm?

Jeff

txdon · May 19, 2005

Mikim, make sure you show the tractor thief Jinman's post . The snakes love blue tractors. and love to chase the people who drive them! /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif
Thanks Jim for the photo!

hitekcountry · May 20, 2005

Ya might want to put that ROP up and keep that gal around for a while even though she steals seat time from you.

mikim · May 20, 2005

That ROP never goes up ... didja happen to see all the trees in the pics?.... we constantly have to duck under limbs etc and from catching that ROPS about 3 times in the past and having it lift the front of the tractor straight up in a hurry - I learned it's safer to keep that thing down. The land is level and we don't do any side hilling at all ....