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Well boys it happened upon me again. Got into a bit of trouble with the bottle and no drivers license for some time to come. Much obliged to this forums previous recommendation of the road gear speed of the Farmall H. Back about two years, when this misfortune fell upon me the first time, road the shoulder till that left tire went bald.

I m going to get the ole H out again to get around, but this time around I have a longer commute to my job. Never really paid much attention to how far ya can get on a tank in road gear on an H, or how many miles a gallon she gets. Y all let me know if you have some knowledge of the economics of commutin on a Farmall H.

Thanks,
Leroy
 
Don't know about mileage or range with an H, but just a reminder that even though you can run a tractor without a license, you have to be sober to do it. DUI laws say operating a "motor vehicle" while under the influence, and a tractor counts as a motor vehicle. Hope you can get the bottle under control.
 
A few years ago there was a story about a man and wife that drove a JD-A several hundred miles on the Alaskan highway. Built a cab and pulled a small camper.Can't remember their cost figures--may try to look it up.
 
Something around 10 miles/gallon based on the Nebraska test data for half-load fuel usage and the
top speed of the H.

Just don't be hitting the bottle before taking to the road. It might be me or my family that you
swerve out in front of.
 

I witnessed a guy get a DUI on a JD rider. Was in Ogden KS. Old retired Army guy. Live about 4 blocks from the VFW bar. Lost his license for DUI. So he was driving his JD lawn tractor to the bar. I thought it was kinda funny.

Right after that we had a soldier get a DUI on a bike. Seems the law there said "operating a vehicle". Not "motor vehicle". He was so drunk that he fell off his bike right in front of a cop.

Rick
 
In Virginia if you loose your drivers license you cannot operate any type of motorized machine or vehicle on the public highway.If caught on something like a tractor it'll be treated the same as
as a truck or car.3rd time DUI you also will be given a nice little room for awhile where you'll be able to walk everywhere you can go.
 
Had a man in our town who would ride his horse to the bar. At closing time the bartender would help him on the horse and untie the horse. The horse would take him home.
 
Once might be misfortune but twice is just pure stupidity. I
don?t have anything against drinking and I?ve probably done
my fair share of it but my family is on the road too and
everyone else?s family in this country as well. Just my opinion
but if someone under the influence were to fatality injury my
family on the roadway the re wouldn?t be much left on agenda
for the rest of my life except carefully planning the slowest
most painful way of revenge or my own justice. An eye for an
eye. Please get some help or just stop I don?t know you and
don?t care if you?re fine with getting out and hurting yourself
but don?t run the risk of hurting innocent people just because
you are not smart enough to quit or limit yourself on drinks or
too lazy to get help. You said you don?t have to go to work
anymore? PERFECT! Go get help but you have to discipline
yourself to stick with it. And you probably think you?re too busy
or have too much going on but if you?ve been arrested for this
twice already the chances of you being a productive member
of society is probably pretty slim. Please treat your problem
 

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Back in the freeze my butt off days when I hauled corn to town day after day with a Deere A I figured the mileage was in the 7 mpg range.
 
We toured Germany in mid 80s. I was told they don't like drinking
and driving. Get caught, go to jail for 6 months and then you face
their court system. Sure would like to that process here.
 
Get a bicycle. Law enforcement officers in most places look dimly on folks with DUI convictions operating any motorized vehicle on the highway, even a scooter or moped. What you intend to do may be legal, but that doesn't mean you won't attract law enforcement scrutiny. The last thing you need right now is another trip to the hoosegow.
 
(quoted from post at 23:38:10 05/16/19) Well boys it happened upon me again. Got into a bit of trouble with the bottle and no drivers license for some time to come. Much obliged to this forums previous recommendation of the road gear speed of the Farmall H. Back about two years, when this misfortune fell upon me the first time, road the shoulder till that left tire went bald.

I m going to get the ole H out again to get around, but this time around I have a longer commute to my job. Never really paid much attention to how far ya can get on a tank in road gear on an H, or how many miles a gallon she gets. Y all let me know if you have some knowledge of the economics of commutin on a Farmall H.

Thanks,
Leroy
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You should be in a cell for a substantial length of time. A$$ hole.
 
I agree with the others, ride a bike.

It sounds like this is not the first time, no sympathy here.
 
Well, I'm not going to "pile on," since the others have sent a pretty clear message. What stuck with me is this:

"Well boys it happened upon me again."

Things like this don't just happen, you actually make them happen. Take some ownership of the problem, get some help and forget the tractor. Someone at work or your boss may be able to arrange something.
 

I agree, get some help friend. Once is dumb kid stuff, twice is a problem. Hope you find a path that works for you.
 
Careful with the bike advice. Some states the law reads that it's illegal "operate a vehicle" while intoxicated or under the influence. No reference to a "motor" at all.

In the late 80's at Ft Knox we had a senior NCO, little over 19 years service get a DUI. Was his 3rd or 4th. Now the military had drug and alcohol treatment programs. If, before being caught you went and ask for help it was a clean slate deal. They even had a 90 day inpatient dry out program for alcoholics. So from my perspective absolutely no sympathy. But we wound up processioning this guy and kicking him out with less than a year to go for retirement. His own fault.

Guys like the OP? Trying to figure out a way around losing his license? They ain't gonna learn nothing from this.

Rick
 
I know a man who got busted for riding a
horse while he has intoxicated.

Indiana allowed people to ride a moped
AKA liquor cycle without a license.
Moped has to have plates. A man on his
way to work fell off his liquor cycle at
a stop light next to a city cop. He got 6
months to dry out in jail.

Not sure if the law concerning mopeds has
changed.
 
I'll just add this: Bicyclists can cause really serious accidents. I was on a high-speed stretch of US 40 few years back, climbing a pretty good grade. Guy with a bicycle was in the breakdown lane over to the right. Wide lane over there, but he was hugging the white line and partly in the roadway. He was trying to get on the bike, obviously having problems. I'm coming up the road, so I move over to the next lane to give him wide berth. As I passed him he managed to mount the bike, wobble a few feet, then I saw him fall into the roadway as I glanced in my mirror. Lots of traffic coming up the hill. He knew enough to get into a defensive position, whatever his state of mind was--and started to cover his head. I crested the hill, heard the sound of metal crashing as one car after another smashed into each other in a chain-reaction pile-up. Closed the road for a few hours. I listened to the radio, apparently the cyclist was ok.
 
Don't think the boss would be to likely to go along with that. If too drunk for that to happen what would be the chaces if he did get to work be sober enough to do the job.
 

Only way commuting to work on a Farmall H would be legal is if someone WITH a drivers license was driving it, and even then the tractor would need to be equipped with turn signals, brake lights, and be registered.

Farm tractors are legal on public roads ONLY when being used for purposes of agriculture.
 
. Around here when a license is lost from impaired or over 80 mg driving . Not allowed to operate any motor vehicle on the roads nor a power boat .
 
Depends a lot on state laws what you MAY LEGALLY operate on road with pulled license for drunk bust. In Wisconsin Bicycles and Implements of husbandry are about it. Mopeds need drivers license so not a option
like in Ohio.seems the law there has a list of about 114 scooters, mopeds that the unlicensed can legally operate on city streets, county roads - common term is Drunkcycle. Colorado seems to have or had same
law, bar parking lots near campus get 1/2 filled with little 2 wheeler and some little three wheelers - students soon to be expelled for partying when should have been studying. Indiana about 2 years back
changed laws on license plates for 'mopeds', 49cc scooters - now required and that means drivers license for rider needed and police can now run a plate to get owner if not rider even if they can't pull over
as soon as seen. Before was no license required for license plate less vehicles. Bar 1/2 way between Madison and Stoughton on 51 was common to see tractors in parking lot. Spring Green bar, another on edge of
New Glarus had some tractor driving customers. Police would pull over some of them when they had time, breathlyzers and pea cups-- license not needed but impaired operating on streets, county road was
ticketable. ATVs on Trail, drunken boating can get tickets and grey bar hotel time especially for repeaters. Orange Kubbies with cabs, heat and grocery box on 3 pt common seen around Sauk City in winter.
Ferguson site has a few notes about Hi/lo trannies and how to get 25mph+ out of 135, 165 for use a grocery getter because some kind of drivers license restriction in some jurisdictions. Wo Bist du? H Farmall
with heat houser, plastic windshield, snoopy cap and goggles was used end of winter by brother in Iowa. warm weather means just a umbrella may be needed, light bars with turn signal and trailer tow mirrors
might be handy also. AA meeting would be possible excuse to give officer if stopped- might get escort to meeting site. Might need to get ride from Amish in buggy, maybe horse will be legal for you. RN
 
Our neighbor tried something like that only it was a team of ponies hooked to a cutter, thought he had it made as he could get to drunk to know how to get home but his ponies would always bring him back to the barn, then one night he fell of the cutter before he got home, he was cold, alone and not sure where he was. He sold the ponies the next week and started drinking at home.
 

C'mon Clarence, name calling is a bit childish. State your opinion but keep the school yard name calling for the school kids. I suspect you've driven hammered a time or two yourself (like most of us here), you just didn't get caught.
 
Believe it or not I was standing in my front yard with my father and brother when he rode by on the JD. The big two story house was about a 1/2 mile from where we lived. I went to elementary school with Tammy's daughters. Spent a lot of time at the big house as a kid . The bar he was headed to was called the Hilltop Bar. Have a lot of great memories from those years.
 
Well the state apparently feels the same way as Clarence because 2nd time DUI convictions do carry some mandatory jail time.And if he has a wreck and kills someone the state also has
a far worse name they pin on the drunk.
 
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C'mon Clarence, name calling is a bit childish. State your opinion but keep the school yard name calling for the school kids. I suspect you've driven hammered a time or two yourself (like most of us here), you just didn't get caught.
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You suspect wrong.

I can't think of a better name for him or anyone else who pulls the same crap.
 
(quoted from post at 11:59:42 05/18/19) Anyone else notice that the original poster has one post? I suspect yall been punked.
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I suspected that about halfway through the second page when no response was forthcoming.
 
(quoted from post at 12:12:02 05/18/19)
(quoted from post at 11:59:42 05/18/19) Anyone else notice that the original poster has one post? I suspect yall been punked.
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I suspected that about halfway through the second page when no response was forthcoming.
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"Editing has been temporarily disabled." How long is temporary?

My first opinion stands.
 
(quoted from post at 15:44:46 05/18/19)
(quoted from post at 12:12:02 05/18/19)
(quoted from post at 11:59:42 05/18/19) Anyone else notice that the original poster has one post? I suspect yall been punked.
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I suspected that about halfway through the second page when no response was forthcoming.
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"Editing has been temporarily disabled." How long is temporary?

My first opinion stands.
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Just shy of 12 years for me.
 
(quoted from post at 12:26:04 05/18/19)
(quoted from post at 15:44:46 05/18/19)
(quoted from post at 12:12:02 05/18/19)
(quoted from post at 11:59:42 05/18/19) Anyone else notice that the original poster has one post? I suspect yall been punked.
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I suspected that about halfway through the second page when no response was forthcoming.
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"Editing has been temporarily disabled." How long is temporary?

My first opinion stands.
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Just shy of 12 years for me.
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Really. Wow.
 
(quoted from post at 11:42:02 05/18/19)
(quoted from post at 11:59:42 05/18/19) Anyone else notice that the original poster has one post? I suspect yall been punked.
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I suspected that about halfway through the second page when no response was forthcoming.
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Me too.
Claims he posted about the same thing two years ago.
But he had to re-register with a new user name.

I hope is "work" has a drug testing policy with zero tolerance and maybe sends him to rehab.

A s s holes like him only care for themselves and should stay home to get drunk.
 
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