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Not really stolen

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thurlow

01-27-2004 09:47:05




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Went to feed Sunday; feed big round bales every other day. Have got barn (and pasture) about 5 miles from home; feed a few bales out of the barn before I start on the 'outside' hay, so I'll have a place to keep a tractor to feed with. Not really comfortable with tractor in with the hay, but I make sure the hay is dry and it's worked for years with no problems. So, when I drive up, the double 12 ft gates are open, barn is full of cows and the tractor (4020 with loader w/forks on front and hay forks on 3 point hitch) is gone. Barn is about 80 yds off of public road, but my field road runs almost a mile back through hay fields and pastures. It rained all Saturday night (about 2 inches) and field road is VERY rutted/torn up. Am in Jeep, so decide to ride down field road. About 1/2 down in there is a creek bottom which you can't even walk across (for the mud) after a big rain. There sits the tractor. Whoever "borrowed" the tractor has driven around, apparently jacklighting deer, driven off into the bottom (had to be a four-wheel drive to have gotten back that far), gotten stuck, walked back to my barn, etc. Went to Justice Center, talked to sheriff's deputy, who filled out a report and said, "We'll file this, let us know if you find out anything else". Don't really know what else he could have done....Checked with fellow who lives down the road; he saw lights in the field around mid-night, but didn't call me because it was so late. No harm done except to my blood pressure; probably just as well that I didn't catch them; either gotten the hail beat out of me or be in jail for assualting juveniles. Guess I'll start taking the key out of tractor, although it can be started with screwdriver, nail, pocketknife, etc. There, I feel all better now..... ..

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Farmall Don

01-28-2004 10:45:20




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 Re: Not really stolen in reply to thurlow, 01-27-2004 09:47:05  
My father in law put a breaker switch with a key between the batteries and the tractor in a hidden location behind the cover plate with the 4020 on it.



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buickanddeere

01-28-2004 06:09:18




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 Re: Not really stolen in reply to thurlow, 01-27-2004 09:47:05  
Likely the culprite is someone you know or know of. Who else but a local would know the tractor was in there. Fingerprinting the tractor controls may have found something.



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Jim B

01-28-2004 04:21:23




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 Re: Not really stolen in reply to thurlow, 01-27-2004 09:47:05  
Thurlow,I custom bale hay and sometimes I have to leave my tractors in the field because I didn't finish.I cut the fuel off at the tank.It will start but not for long.Better to have to bleed it than wonder were it went!!!Jim B



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Bob

01-27-2004 19:45:30




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 Re: Not really stolen in reply to thurlow, 01-27-2004 09:47:05  
Todds right. Here in MO they would have sued you if they had hurt themselves or their equipment while using your tractor without permission while being on your place without permission..... And you'd be surprised what the out come might be!!!



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Ray

01-27-2004 18:35:45




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 Re: Not really stolen in reply to thurlow, 01-27-2004 09:47:05  
A friend of mine bought a few acres in KY and
decided to haul a tractor down there from ohio
to mow with.He bought a brand new rotary mower,
mounted it on the tractor and went to ky.It was
raining when he got there so he just put it in the barn and came home.A couple weeks later he
went back to ky to mow his property.When he got
there his tractor was turned around in the barn
and the mower had been used.someone took his
tractor,mowed with it and returned it.

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Bob

01-27-2004 16:55:09




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 Re: Not really stolen in reply to thurlow, 01-27-2004 09:47:05  
I have never understood these people that act like they have never seen a deer before. Have farm few miles from home came upon stuck truck, what do you mean I asked? We where looking at the deer! Getting to the point of property owners having no rights.



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rhudson, you got great pe

01-27-2004 15:55:56




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 Re: Not really stolen in reply to thurlow, 01-27-2004 09:47:05  
you have a better class of crooks in your area. around here they would have set fire to it or poured dirt in the oil pan after getting it stuck.

a buddy of mine just had to go through a dozer he left at a job site. (engine and hydraulics had to be reworked)



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Fred - Kansas

01-27-2004 11:59:31




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 Re: Not really stolen in reply to thurlow, 01-27-2004 09:47:05  
A hidden cutoff switch is easy to make and a lot more effective than removing a tractor key.

Of course it can be fairly easy to rewire but most joy riders won't go to that trouble and leave, thinking it has a dead battery or faulty starter.



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bob

01-27-2004 16:45:37




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 Re: Re: Not really stolen in reply to Fred - Kansas, 01-27-2004 11:59:31  
This is why I favor the old diesels (MF65, etc.) with the fuel stop cable. when you shut it down just leave it shut off. The kids have no clue how to work anything without a key. Of course, since I've grown old & feeble-minded, I occasionally crank it before I realize the fuel is off, but thats a small price to pay for safety.



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Fern(Mi)

01-28-2004 03:30:11




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 Re: Re: Re: Not really stolen in reply to bob, 01-27-2004 16:45:37  
I'm getting so old in mind and bone, I'm sometmes trying to ctank'em before I realize they got starters.



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Todd in MO

01-27-2004 11:08:26




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 Re: Not really stolen in reply to thurlow, 01-27-2004 09:47:05  
Glad you got it back... Could have been worse, Damage, someone getting hurt on your land. Who knows what.



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