Re: Longest distance you drove a tractor

Posted by Walt Davies on March 11, 2007 at 14:55:06 from (72.173.58.4):

In Reply to: Longest distance you drove a tractor posted by Sunny 4 acres on March 11, 2007 at 11:33:25:

I forgot about the Massey Harris my buddy bought it has a huge backhoe off a JD track layer and about 800 lbs of cement up front. As you know these tractors have the worst brakes in the tractor world and when they are nothing better than oil bath they don't work that good. we live in the foothills so the road home was full of small steep hills. We put in 5 gallons of gas that should make it home about 4 miles. what we didn't know was that the pickup on the Massey was in the front of the tank and had a small tube sticking up into the tank. That 5 gallons was great when going down hill or on level ground but the first big hill and it left me out in the cold with no engine no brakes and nothing left to pray for. I got it back to a level spot where we took another road home not over the big hill around it. Well it had a small steep hill which we didn't make it up, same thin back down run off into ditch get something to pull it out get more gas and off we go again. made the next few hills OK but when pulling the last hill into the farm ran out of gas again. Like one said that is a long long trip on a tractor. Next time I'll trailer it. also found out that they have a very fast road gear never did get to that because the steering was not good enough to keep it on the road in third gear.
Walt
home at last and happy.
PS its almost 70 out here.

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