It's A Pride Thing

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   This actually happened to me today. I thought it was somewhat funny. Oh yeah, my friend in this has a 46 B and is a newer member to this site but he won't tell me his name. He says I will have to hunt him down.

       This week at school we are doing tractor driving. Well let me be the first to say that I didn't know so many people couldn't drive a tractor. Of corse the tractor that we are driving is a new John Deere right off the lot.  Several people went and then started asking me and my friend, who both bleed orange, why we hadn't done anything. My firend replied and said that "it was a pride thing." My friend is also a Ford fan and said that he wouldn't dirve it unless it was blue or orange. After that they said that we should just pretend that it was orange and go for it. I then said that "I have a hard time pretending anything while i'm on a John Deere." About that time my friend said "But you have three John Deeres how do you drive them." I said that "I had painted a orange box on the hood of my JDs that way it would be easier to pretend I was on an Allis."

I don't have an orange box on my JDs but it sounds like a good idea.

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AllisChalmers37 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Orange Level Joined: 11 Jul 2010 Location: London,KY Points: 1846	Post Options Post Reply Quote AllisChalmers37 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: It's A Pride Thing Posted: 05 Oct 2010 at 4:34pm
	This actually happened to me today. I thought it was somewhat funny. Oh yeah, my friend in this has a 46 B and is a newer member to this site but he won't tell me his name. He says I will have to hunt him down. This week at school we are doing tractor driving. Well let me be the first to say that I didn't know so many people couldn't drive a tractor. Of corse the tractor that we are driving is a new John Deere right off the lot. Several people went and then started asking me and my friend, who both bleed orange, why we hadn't done anything. My firend replied and said that "it was a pride thing." My friend is also a Ford fan and said that he wouldn't dirve it unless it was blue or orange. After that they said that we should just pretend that it was orange and go for it. I then said that "I have a hard time pretending anything while i'm on a John Deere." About that time my friend said "But you have three John Deeres how do you drive them." I said that "I had painted a orange box on the hood of my JDs that way it would be easier to pretend I was on an Allis." I don't have an orange box on my JDs but it sounds like a good idea.
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DREAM Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Orange Level Joined: 06 Jan 2010 Location: Elberton,GA Points: 1828	Post Options Post Reply Quote DREAM Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 05 Oct 2010 at 7:46pm
	Jeremy, I was doing a job at Fort Gordon last spring. It was in the heavy equipment shop. There was a brand new JD sitting there in the way. Noone was able to move it for me, so I said "what the heck, i'll just back it outside". I got on there, fastened my seatbelt, made sure it was in neutral, pushed in the clutch, and fired it up. Next, I put the range selector in high, selected 2nd gear from the main box, put the shuttle in reverse, released the parking brake, and.... NOTHING. It just sat there. Scatched my head and looked around to see if I had forgotten anything. Couldn't see anything. Fooled with it for a few minutes before one of the guys came over and said "I had the same thing happen, you have to release the park brake BEFORE you take any of the gear selectors out of neutral". Seems like a stupid idea to me. I should be able to put the damn thing in gear, then let the park brake off and go. This means you have to put all the motion selectors in neutral every time you have to get off the tractor, whether you leave it running or not. Stupid, stupid idea.
	I didn't do it! It was a short, fat, tall, skinny guy that looked like me!

AllisChalmers37 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Orange Level Joined: 11 Jul 2010 Location: London,KY Points: 1846	Post Options Post Reply Quote AllisChalmers37 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 05 Oct 2010 at 8:40pm
	That sounds just like that one we used today. It was a 5055. Yesterday we had a tractor show at the school and I had to bring the Oliver because the Allis was too wide to fit on our trailer. The guy next to me had a brand new 120hp JD tractor with the cab, loader, and FWA. Behind it was a new Vermeer silage edition roller with the plastic wrap. All togeather I would think that to be over $100,000. He got all the attention while the Oliver and my friend's B just got ignored.
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1946WP Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Orange Level Joined: 25 Apr 2010 Location: mn Points: 780	Post Options Post Reply Quote 1946WP Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 06 Oct 2010 at 8:52am
	wow ,now I know why b26240 put an orange wd tool box on his new JD. right Mark?

Dale-OH Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Orange Level Joined: 12 Sep 2009 Location: SW OHIO Points: 895	Post Options Post Reply Quote Dale-OH Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 06 Oct 2010 at 9:16am
	I agree with the safety stuff but by law it has to be there. Some newer tractors you have to push the brake in to start. Just a lot of extra headaches down the road but the government doesnt look at it that way.