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Posted by mj on December 02, 2006 at 07:25:24 from (69.85.83.18):
In Reply to: Tractor Gurus posted by New-Gen on December 02, 2006 at 05:44:58:
Yeah: There was a guy over somewhere west of Pea Green that took two David Bradley walk-behinds a and made the worlds' first.....OK, maybe second, articulated twin-motor, all-wheel drive garden tractor that would fit in the back of a Crosley station wagon. He gained a fair amount of notoriety from as far east as Marble and west to Bedrock. It all came to an end one day when he started out from Fort Crawford for Log Hill and ran into a freak spring snowstorm in Colona. He knew he was going to get frostbite if he didn't get some kind of cover so he used the little tractor to uproot the only phone booth in town and parked it behind the DB. He had a small chain and hitched the phone booth to the tractor and found some baling wire out behind Jims' Texas-Style Barbeque along with some 2 x 4s from a salsa shipment which he attached to the bottom of the booth with his MacGyver knife. After knocking out the lower panel of the phone shack so he could reach out to the handlebars and controls he headed up hill, never to be seen again. Legend has it that on cool spring mornings in early spring if you sit quietly along the Log Hill road you can hear hear the little DB working its' way up-country accompanied by the sound of 1950s' elevator music. You see, the guy was was put on permanent hold by the Mountain Bell phone cops. Other than that: There was this preacher that inherited a ............
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