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Posted April 04, 2013 4:45 PM by Kaplin

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04/04/2013 5:09 PM

It has taken a while but think I finally found the problem

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04/04/2013 5:35 PM

My way to make crop circles.

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04/04/2013 5:59 PM

There once was a tired old man on a tired old tractor that took a trip across a tired old field.

Well he did until his tire fell off.

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04/04/2013 6:01 PM

Something doesn't feel right.

HONEY! Bring me a wrench. I think the seat needs adjusting.

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04/04/2013 6:01 PM

Dears,

Irgent!!!!!!!!!

My tracktor, is red model with custum grill.

It no longer sits level and it will not go forward.

Please tell me how to level it and make it go again.

Waiting fery much for your nice fast reply.

PlZ hury and tell.

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04/05/2013 12:21 AM

Is this homework?

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04/04/2013 6:06 PM

Dang. I left the duct tape and bits of wire on the other tractor. Guess I will be walking home now.

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04/04/2013 6:11 PM

Which way to the "cash for clunkers" giveaway program?

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04/04/2013 7:08 PM

Dam# this new torque wrench - How the heck do I convert foot pounds to Newton metres ounces/centimeters to inch-oz. / hectare mulltiplied by the per acre constant then divided by the cubit? - I wish they'd standardize, already!

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04/04/2013 7:48 PM

Pavalotti needed to even out the field and thought of the very best option - a flat flat-wheeled tractor.

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04/04/2013 8:39 PM

I thought I put the cotter pin on.

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04/04/2013 8:50 PM

Arte Johnson down on the farm.

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04/04/2013 9:03 PM

Now i know what that button does.

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04/04/2013 9:54 PM

Bumper sticker on back......

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04/05/2013 9:09 AM

One of my worst ideas was to get custom printed a T-shirt saying "My other girlfriend is a top model"... somehow she figured it out and left me , and of course, there wasn't such a top model backup.

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04/04/2013 10:12 PM

Sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug.

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04/04/2013 10:48 PM

But, it's a 1949 Russian Tupalov Model 718, they only made 36 in this color, for high ranking officials...

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04/05/2013 1:18 AM

Do you think Viagra will help?

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04/05/2013 3:28 AM

Funny-looking lawn mower.

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04/05/2013 4:13 AM

The test team at KrisDel™ Tractor Division seemed to be having a little difficulty during field trials of the latest model...

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04/05/2013 4:14 AM

Good job that thing has a roll cage...

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04/05/2013 5:48 AM

"nearly fixed it"

http://www.redpowermagazine.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=77985

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04/05/2013 7:42 AM

Damn it, Keep Bill away from the machinery........ I swear, he'd break a steel ball if you let him near it.

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04/05/2013 7:59 AM

Bored with the soft fun of tipping tractors, Mater has moved onto something harder.

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04/05/2013 8:31 AM

One thing about this picture struck me as being odd. After staring at it for awhile, I figured it out. The entire tractor (except the roof, tires and exhaust) is painted the same color (or colour), even the engine and movable parts (or parts that should move if it was a working tractor). And on top of that, the paint job looks fresher than most cars I've owned.

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04/05/2013 8:33 AM

Yup! only thing missing is the "for Sale" sign.

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04/05/2013 9:15 AM

I was expecting you to mention the awesome cleanliness of those shiny tires.

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04/05/2013 8:37 AM

"Important: Please read these instructions carefully before attempting to assemble your DIY Tractor Kit."

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04/05/2013 10:07 AM

Another not so quite successful restoration project.

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04/05/2013 10:11 AM

*RECALL NOTICE*

The government has court ordered Allis-Chalmers to recall all of their WD Tractors that they produced between 1950-1953 due to a defect in their casting.

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04/05/2013 1:21 PM

CORRECTION

*RECALL NOTICE*

The government has court ordered Allis-Chalmers Massey Furguson to recall all of their WD Tractors that they produced between 1950-1953 due to a defect in their casting.

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04/05/2013 12:11 PM

GESUNDHEIT !!!!!!!!

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04/05/2013 12:20 PM

In a classic case of country music induced delusions of grandeur, he thinks, she thinks his tractors sexy.

Apologies to Kenny Chesney.

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04/05/2013 1:13 PM

In a classic case of country music induced delusions of grandeur,.........

you know if:

  • His women left him,
  • his hound dog died last week
  • his truck is in the shop
  • his tractor broke
  • and he lost his job...

uhm........ all he has to do is put it to music and he'd have a number one country hit by next week

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04/05/2013 8:55 PM

You know what you get if you play country music backwards?

You get your wife back, you get your truck back, you get your house back.......

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04/05/2013 9:13 PM

... and you stop drinking.

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04/05/2013 1:19 PM

It's 2:00 am and it's time for: Amazing Discoveries!

Befuddled idiot: "I wish someone would combine a tractor with a floor buffer so I could do my farm work during the day but could clean the floor of my barn at night."

Spokesman: "Well sir, you're in luck... Have we got the product for you!"

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04/05/2013 1:24 PM

obama warned us this would happen if the republicans didn't agree to my tax hikes and advert the budget sequester

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04/05/2013 1:26 PM

They see me rollin...

They hatin'

Patrolin'

Tryin' to catch me ridin' dir..ty...

DagNabbit !!

O.G. Out! P'Eace!!

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04/05/2013 1:29 PM

Poor bill, after that last accident, it was two weeks before we could pry him aff that tractor.

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04/05/2013 7:09 PM

Now you have me wondering how this happened where a person was at that captured the whole roll over from beginning to end on camera?

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04/05/2013 1:46 PM

He thought "My tractor already has hydraulics so I'll attached them to the axles and enter the lowrider bounce competition".

Lyn would be quite embarrassed it we found out this was actually him.

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04/05/2013 5:14 PM

Does this Tractor make me look fat?

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04/06/2013 5:43 PM

Could have been the final outcome of this!!

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04/08/2013 4:23 AM

"I followed the instructions in the kit - it said 'do not cement this part'."

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04/08/2013 8:21 AM

Man.......those Duck Dynasty guys sure have a sense of humor ...........Si...where you at.....he gone!!

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04/08/2013 8:24 AM

Damn!!

Moonshine........ Gauldang that dadgum contraption.

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04/09/2013 11:05 PM

Recent evidence of the new improved quality of those outsourced castings from China (would have put india 5 years ago).

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04/10/2013 4:01 PM

That tractor should have been re-tired a long time ago!

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04/11/2013 11:52 PM

You picked a fine time to leave me loosewheel

4 hungry chitlens and a crop in the fields ?

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