Fled after draining oil from three tractors

PaGlenn

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From todays Wyalusing Pa Rocket Courier

Oil Drained from Tractors
Police received a report on the morning of Oct. 4 that at some point, an individual drained oil from three farm tractors along Keelersburg Road in Eaton Township and fled the scene. Anyone with information regarding this act of criminal mischief is asked to contact state police at Tunkhannock.

I guess he wanted to break-in his new adjustable wrench
 
I've got a customer in the Chapel Hill, NC area that runs a gravel pit. Last winter he had someone go in his place overnight, drop the complete belly pan on his D5, drain the oil, and then put the pan back on. The only way he knew that they dropped the whole pan, rather than open the small drain hole, was that they didn't get all of the bolts back in and tight.

I told him he needs to hire somebody to come in to provide security, and 'hunt coyotes' at night. It doesn't hurt that there actually is a small pack that runs around the place...LOL
 
There was a guy years ago hitting tower sites in west Texas. I was on an inspection route with another tech. We found the guy inside the yard.
Rattlesnake got him.
 
(quoted from post at 22:30:57 10/12/17) There was a guy years ago hitting tower sites in west Texas. I was on an inspection route with another tech. We found the guy inside the yard.
Rattlesnake got him.



Texas justice!
 
(quoted from post at 21:30:38 10/12/17) Why would someone do this?
THAT, my friend, is the $64 question!

That friend I have in the Black Hills - he had his road grader parked on his property. Someone cut the lock, drove in, grader was parked where it couldn't be seen, and they shot the engine full of holes! Busted radiator, busted engine.....not much that wasn't shot up.

Why would some people put live animals in a microwave??

Why would some people shoot into a crowd with modified rifles??

...Why would some country choose to invade and conquer another country, when the other people are 100% peaceful and would otherwise welcome the newcomers??

Can't escape evil. Comes in all forms and sizes.
 
I heard of guy around here a couple years ago... where some teens cut all the wires on a tractor left in a field. I guess they just think it's 'fun'. Sheesh.
 

We had somebody go around shooting at transformers and insulators and cutting power. As far as I know, they never caught them.
 
(quoted from post at 23:30:38 10/12/17) Why would someone do this?

No idea but it is not just people.

Left my Farmall in the pasture for one night and the cows thought it would be fun to yank off any wiring they could get at.

Have had horses drag there teeth down the hoods of vehicles, removing the paint and gouging the metal.

Dang mule reached his head over an electric fence and chewed off the wires going to the solar panel.

Had a pony chew 3/4 of the way through two fence posts we replaced last summer, yes there were plenty of salt blocks in that pasture.

Had a dog that lived to chew on extension cords, even plugged in, he would jump once in a while then get right back at it.

So back to why do people do idiotic things.

Unless it is;

Boredom, mineral deficiency, curiosity or a mischief tendency I have no idea.
 
(quoted from post at 20:45:18 10/12/17) From todays Wyalusing Pa Rocket Courier

Oil Drained from Tractors
Police received a report on the morning of Oct. 4 that at some point, an individual drained oil from three farm tractors along Keelersburg Road in Eaton Township and fled the scene. Anyone with information regarding this act of criminal mischief is asked to contact state police at Tunkhannock.

I guess he wanted to break-in his new adjustable wrench

What gets me is how they report it, "and fled the scene". IF you did something like that would you stick around?

Rick
 
No joke,I left the tractor and chopper sitting down near the edge of town a few years ago overnight. Was chopping the next morning and halfway up across the field on one pass,I had a big oil streak behind me. I shut it right down,walked back and found the drain plug right where the oil started. That 2-135 has two drain plugs. The other one was turned out to about the last thread.
 
i had someone, and ive got a pretty good idea who, drain the hydraulic sump on my backhoe last month, fortunately, i check all fluids each time i use equipment especially if it sits around a lot and caught it, it must be a new thing for kids why i have no idea, equipment here is now parked in view of my cameras
 
i wonder how times a gravity wagon load of grain has been left over night in a field only to have some jerk open the side door and let the grain out
 
The whole escapade probably started with one teenager saying to another teenager, "Wouldn't it be funny if..."

They're probably sitting there laughing hysterically, because they made the paper and know they got away with it.
 
Paul summed it up well:

Romans 3:18

?There is no fear of God before their eyes."

The whole chapter reveals a lot of truth about mankind. Didn't post all of it, didn't want to get poofed. Good read though!
 
The sad part is it was probably done by farm kids or or an adult who knows the farmer.
 
Wayne... come on now. We are to believe one or more guys laid on their backs in a puddle of oil and bench pressed a D-5 belly pan and start the bolts (in the dark) in the frame... and they didn't even tighten them??
 
That's what made the whole thing so unbelievable, even to him.

He said that most of the bolts had been run back up flush, but there were several that had been cross threaded, that didn't pull up all, that gave away what they had done.

As far as the size of the pans on a D5, this is a newer machine, so they are flat panels more like you'd find on a 953 than the heavy critters you'd find on an old machine

That said, you'd have to know the area, and the absolute hatred for him and the gravel pit/beneficial fill dump that's been in business for nearly 50 years. His place is slowly being surrounded by a town full of 'Progressive' folks. Heck, over the years he's been accused of making the water table go up, and go down, all at the same time. He's been accused of contaminating water UPSTREAM from the place, as well as downstream, even though the place is a hole and no water leaves the pit without being pumped (which he hasn't done in years). He's even had the fire department try to force their way in to 'put out a fire' when he refused to allow a local official to simply snoop around. Two years ago the doubled his bond for no apparent reason.

He's even had locals that think they can just come in and nose around without asking permission, and get upset when he demands they leave. He even had one guy sneak in a few years ago that was caught down in the pit taking pics of his girlfriend, in a bikini, rolling around on his car (((((He said he almost let that one stay...LOL))) Thing is his operation is considered a quarry, and thus falls under Federal control, and MSHA, so he is required by law to insure things like that don't happen.

The worst thing is his operation is legal in every way, and gets constantly hassled. On the other hand are the illegal pits and dumps that the town officials like to use (illegally), and flat out refuse to shut down. Last I heard he was planning to do what he has tried for years to avoid, and get the Feds involved. I'm sure I'll hear all about it the next time I get back up there.

In the end, given what all I've heard from him, and the guys who have worked for him, nothing that happens around that place surprises me anymore.
 
Last year, and then the month leading up to my dad's auction after it was official, stuff was happening. Things went missing. Honey wound up in the gas tank of my Oliver 1600. The anvil was stolen. One of the screws fell out of the carburetor on the Massey 165 that hasn't been touched or fiddled with in years. The morning of the auction, dad noticed 2 screws were missing from the injection pump on the Massey 285.

Thankfully the tractor still ran. The 165 I was able to find a replacement part and get it running again a couple days before the auction. My 1600 I eventually got the tank empty and flushed it out with hot water.

Any equipment not sold at the auction (my Olivers, the plows, and a few other things) were removed from the farm before the auction. Some bidders were mad that the Olivers and plows weren't there, but I didn't care.they were mine and never should have been in the auction bill...

People are A-holes.

Donovan from Wisconsin
 
I had a 33 acre farm in New Milford Pa in Susquehanna county. Presently living in NJ. I get the Rocket Courier online. The paper is located in Wyalusing Pa in Bradford County.
 
I guess my age is showing... was thinking belly pans of the '70s... I was at the parts store today looking for a gallon of brake fluid... guy hands me a plastic jug... I couldn't find it because I was looking for a steel can
 

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