Rediculous uses of tractors

dmacneil · Dec 15, 2008

MMM said:
How 'bout as a sail? While servicing this tracker a micro-burst from small passing cloud cost me a pretty penny. Well, insurance actually eased the pain a bit.

Gotta ask.. what is that - ie. tracker for what?

MMM · Dec 16, 2008

Those floppy white sqare things used to be solar panels.
The tracker follows the sun during the course of the day, and parks itself back to the East at dusk. The system powers(750w) a DC pump for drip irrigation in the orchard.

dmacneil · Dec 16, 2008

The only "tracker" system I know of is a solar one - except for old satellite systems - they didn't look like PV panels which is why I had to ask

. Very cool stuff. Replacing that system would've put a nice big dent in the pocket book for sure... ouch...

smfcpacfp · Dec 16, 2008

Wow this thread has some legs (8 years).

I used my tractor to lift heavy pieces of wood onto my log splitter using lifting tongs on my toothbar

wwalkersd · Dec 16, 2008

GinNB said:
Just thought of a "ridiculous" thing I did a long while back. I was burning a blueberry field next to a fellow's house and he came over to talk. Turns out that his dog just died and he wanted me to cremate it. I backed the burner over the box he had the dog in and let it burn for a while. It was out of the ordinary but he certainly appreciated it.

Did you check to be sure it was really a dog in the box? Maybe he just wanted to dispose of some "evidence".

radioman · Dec 16, 2008

does getting the mail in a tractor count ? mailbox is only 100 ft from door to mailbox --

GinNB · Dec 16, 2008

It was an open top plastic fishbox. Most definitely a dog.

steverichmond · Dec 16, 2008

radioman said:
does getting the mail in a tractor count ? mailbox is only 100 ft from door to mailbox --

Quilty of that one

steverichmond · Dec 30, 2008

Beautiful day today so my wife asked me to "clean" the dining room rug. It shampoo it and used the Fel to hang it up to dry. Never thought the FEL would be used like this. But oh well.

timalabim · Dec 30, 2008

Transfered a ton of wood pellets 8 bags at a time from my pickup to my breezeway since I could get closer in to the door with the FEL bucket then I could with the back of the pickup.

Deano · Dec 30, 2008

steverichmond said:
Beautiful day today so my wife asked me to "clean" the dining room rug. It shampoo it and used the Fel to hang it up to dry. Never thought the FEL would be used like this. But oh well.

Now that is funny!!!!

Deano

Eagleview · Dec 30, 2008

Tried to use a tractor as an Aeroplane once but the float control was not working

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Rich P · Jan 12, 2009

Not too crazy, but drove it back for about a mile (about two pops worth).

Danno1 · Jan 15, 2009

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SWEET!

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Jay4200 · Jan 15, 2009

Rich P said:
http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u99/Rich_P-/CR06-07297w.jpg
Not too crazy, but drove it back for about a mile (about two pops worth).

So THAT's what I look like on my tractor....

JayC

xlr82v2 · Jan 16, 2009

How about using it to hang an R/C airplane while it's being painted?

JOHNTHOMAS · Jan 19, 2009

Guess this is unusual since I only did it one time in almost 5 years owning Kubotas. I had a friend doing some front end loader work for me. He came one morning and couldn't get the CAT loader off his trailer. The tracks were frozen. He used to kid me about my little Kubota. I told him I could pick up his loader with my Kubota but never had to prove it to him.

Well, the day his tracks froze he tried everything to free them with no luck. He finally told me to go get my Kubota and bring it down to the trailer. I knocked his tracks loose from the side with the front bucket which loosened them enough for it to drive off the trailer. He never said much after that about my "little" Kubota but I did kid him about it taking a Kubota to get a CAT moving. I also lifted a refrigerator off my truck one time but that probably wasn't to unusual.

jimmer2880 · Jan 23, 2009

Not really rediculous, but I did move a house with my little 18hp today

I'm really starting to get used to having forks on the 3pt.

jim46ok · Jan 27, 2009

The ROPS on my TC45D is pretty heavy and awkward to rotate back(to clear garage door header). So I hook straps on it to the FEL and have wife lift loader as I am controlling descent of ROPS to the rear.

MacPDaddy · Jul 21, 2009

I posted this before in another thread, but getting an arcade game into a game room... 2 hobbies I love - tractors and games for the kids (me included)!!