Tractor Quotes

I`ve always been interested in the Depression as this very dramatic pivotal period in American history. My dad grew up on a farm in Oklahoma and remembers playing with his toy tractor under the table while the local farmers talked with his grandfather about forming a local militia to protect the crops because they were afraid unemployed people from the town would come in and grab the crops.

I may need to rent a tractor-trailer to do this.

I was working on the farm to get in shape, about a mile away from my parents. You know, I did everything as a kid to stay in shape - jogging, work on the farm, driving the tractor. I`ll never forget.

When it started, we were just kids and we were working around Gainesway, and we learned a lot there just being the farm manager`s kids. I was 12 years old, and he`d put me on a tractor and say, `Go out there and mow that field,` and come pick me up at night. He had us working doing something all the time.

I got an e-mail from a guy in Hong Kong, ... I get `em from Afghanistan. I have farmers who come up to me - people who live on the East Coast, the West Coast; they come up to me - and they say, `I`m so pleased I don`t have to drive my tractor anymore up onto hill No. 7 to listen to the game. I can get it on the Internet.`

That reduces you`re capacity down to 24 vehicles. On a normal trip with no tractor trailer you can take around 32. Sometimes you`re still going to have the problem with up there and not getting on. If there`s tractor trailer traffic your chances of getting on are reduced somewhat.

There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.

Programs that pay farmers not to farm often devastate rural areas. The reductions hurt everyone from fertilizer companies to tractor salesmen.

We received information within the last two weeks that there was a stolen tractor in the back yard and we were able to do quick surveillance to find that there was another vehicle being chopped or disassembled in the back.

(The van) couldn`t avoid hitting the tractor-trailer, ... Their brakes locked up.

They still have the breakdown lane and the right travel lane blocked because they`re trying to figure out how to get the tractor-trailer out of there,

As a result, the tractor-trailer unit attempted to avoid collision with the vehicle, it swerved to the right travel lane and then struck the Tacoma and then tipped over onto its right side,