Naming Tractors

FarmerBob · May 14, 2001

Those are some great names guys. I decided I wanted a uni-sex name so people wouldn't think I was 100% crazy, so I named my new 'bota "Nehi" after those good ole orange soda pops I used to drink as a kid. She's/he's orange and sooooooo refreshing /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

Actually, Nehi is really a "she", but don't tell anyone /w3tcompact/icons/crazy.gif

FarmerBob

jimmoore · May 14, 2001

FarmerBob, that brings back memories of all thw "Nehi" drinks. Cola, Rootbeer, orange, grape and remember the Creme soda. I miss the R C Cola and a Moon PIE.

jim

Bird · May 14, 2001

Jim, I did like the Nehi drinks, especially the orange and grape, preferably with a bag of Tom's Peanuts, and I even liked the Moon Pies, but I wandered into an RC Cola bottling plant one day when I was about 13. I haven't drunk an RC since that day after I saw the water they were "washing" the bottles in. It was probably no worse than the other bottling plants, but I haven't seen them./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif/w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

Bird

skent · May 15, 2001

I guess, since I've spent so much time re-grading the drive and removing rocks from the fields, I try going with Rocky. (could go either way, Rocki) But since I've left Rocky alone with Casey (Case DC) and we have no off-spring, I can assume one of two things. . . . either they are both the same gender. . . or they are not attracted to one another. (Maybe Rocky does not like older tractors).

An alternate name could be Stoney. (in the event that Rocky is 'taken')

Steve

FarmerBob · May 15, 2001

Bird...

My dad was a Pepsi bottler, but also had the franchise for Nehi, Donald Duck, and others. He used to take me to the plant with him when I was just a kid and I can certainly remember seeing some strange things come through the quality station. I've seen mice, roaches, crickets, frogs, cigarettes, and various other "unintentional ingredients" in bottled and capped drinks. I often wondered how many made it past the guy watch'n the bottles as they passed down the line. Can you imagine finishing a nice refreshing soda and then noticing a dead mouse in the bottle? /w3tcompact/icons/crazy.gif Now most drinks come in cans. I wonder just how they check for the added ingredients in those? /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

Oh well... I lived through a lot worse things than that. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

FarmerBob

FarmerBob · May 15, 2001

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh... a good ole RC 'n Moon Pie. Now that truly does bring back fond memories. Have you noticed that the Moon Pies just don't taste the same any more???? /w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif

FarmerBob

TWINKLE_TOES · May 15, 2001

FarmerBob,

When I was a kid, about eight years old, I found a clothes pin in a bottle of HIRES root beer. I sent HIRES a postcard suggesting they look in the bottle before they fill it with pop. About two weeks later I received a big package in the mail. A root beer making kit with all the stuff, bottles caps and bottle capper./w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif Over the next 50 years I have written a lot of letters to manufactures over this and that, but never got another root beer kit. /w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif

My tractor is named "His", my wifes tractor is "Hers"

Al

FarmerBob · May 15, 2001

Al...

Interesting story. What you didn't say was whether you bottled your own root beer? /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

My wife likes my tractor "Nehi", but doesn't want anything to do with operating it. I had to buy her a lawn tractor of her own just to get her to keep the area around the house mowed. It's a Craftsman 16HP and doesn't have a name... except when she tells me she's not going to get out in the hot sun and ride that "damn" thing. So I guess we could name it "damnit" or something along those lines. /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

Actually, I'll have to give her credit. She truly does mow around the house most of the time and does a bang-up job on the flower beds. She's just a little intimidated by all the gadgets on the Kubota. She did ride it around the property one afternoon and was impressed how easy it was to handle.

FarmerBob

Anonymous Poster · May 15, 2001

<font color=blue>She did ride it ... and was impressed how easy it was to handle.</font color=blue>

Bob...

Shuhhh.... Don't let the cat out of the bag... you may end up driving the Craftsman and the wife will have the Kubota Nehi.../w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif