Are those wood riser blocks made out of that"YellaWood" I see advertised at Home Depot?

 

Hey Juiceman, I could have drove it home, just would have had to sneak it across about three paved roads, maybe I should take it back down and drive it back so I can keep the tradition. Well have to see where my next victim Cat is located since you pointed that out. One thing I have found out about this forum, you cant get away with anything cause everyone is watching. LOL

I think that yellow wood is the hiway cat yellow that nobody can locate and is the good stuff with lead in it.

Hah! No worries about walking a D4 across a paved road! We had a local genius offload a dressed D10 on a county road, and the guy drove it another 1/4 mile right on top of it, thinking nobody gonna know...well when its the only massive dozer/ripper unit parked in an open field, it is obvious! Add the fact, a neighbor farmer did not appreciate having the road to his home destroyed. County sent someone a huge bill for repairs...
Yeah, everyone watching. I can't even try to buy my poor self a tractor. Sniffle sniffle... Hahaha
Keep it up, your distracting folks and doing a fine job. JM

Hi, Neil.
"make dents in wet sand"?????? A certain largish 'gentleman' who shall remain un-named but was prominent among the 'concerned members' a while back had street plates onna D4 but managed to leave some rather expensive marks onna concrete cattle guard base atta certain well known Western U.S. vintage machinery show some years ago.

Horses fer courses.

Just my 0.02.

that is a nice crawler. and the old truck looks the part too.

Some people are just lucky. Way back a guy took his D6 and 18 foot disc (with out wheels under it) down the highway 46 west about 2 miles. As far as I known he got no more than a talking to and maybe not even that. But the authorities can have a real talent for tracking. A good friend got a visit from the Highway Patrol, he drag a steel wheeled Holt combine home. It had the remains of a wooden shade canopy that feel apart on the trip. Leaving pieces of wood and nails on the road. A number of mad people with flat tires called the authorities. So they followed the wheel marks 2 miles off the pavement to wake him up.

Times have changing, the pavement was very fragile in the old days. Piles of old tires were farmers crossed their Cats regularly. Modern asphalt concrete hot mix put down in 2 inch or more is more or less immune to Cats going strait across. The last place I used tires, somebody hauled them off. That still has me wondering, as it was before the wineries moved in and we became high toned out here. So if there is no lip to crawl up and break off the edges nobody has been worrying about and just goes the last 30 years. But nobody has bigger than a D 6 out this way ether.

Great to see that you got the Lowe tractor and will give it a good home. I think the farm it was purchased from was the next farm downriver from where you picked it up. Sat in the barn there when I first came into the area as Darrell had a turboed 7u and a D4D that he was farming with then. I think I actually plowed a round with that tractor 15-20 years ago at David’s. A lot cleaner tighter tractor than the poor old wore out 7j of my dad’s that we still used on one farm back in the eighties. Nice save, Mike

Ray: Around here, mainly the Sutter Basin, they have a really nice stretch of Reclamation Rd., and Progress Roads that run from Robbins Ca all the way to Meridian; Many spots along the way have crossings made of cement, likely to allow the locals to "walk" them across without destroying the asphalt. I am talking really really nice. I would not be surprised if those roads will be part of a future major thruway. Someone designed it too well just for the farmers to use!
We get our road resurfaced for the first time in 60 years here. It was so beat up, I do not mind the minor inconveniences while they do it.
I have put a few marks in it with an implement bouncing up and down, or crossing the road. One neighbor went to jail because rather than plant his trees further in, he figured he could plant almost up to the fog line. Discing was not a problem, since, each pass he made, gave him more acres, as he destroyed the asphalt. Hahaha. Nobody wants to give an inch. JM