tractor driving

By the next season, he had bought an old 8 speed Wheel Horse garden tractor. He put bigger rubber on it all around with duals on the back, geared it up and hung some racks on it along with a SMV sign. He also hung a john deere fly wheel on the front end to hold it down, and man does that thing ever pull well.

From then on he cruised down the back roads to his hunting spot year after year and was never bothered again!!!

BTW, because of a heard condition he couldn't walk a long distance or drag a deer out.

Robert

Also, I would not test the waters too much with your golf carts (or Kawasaki mules, or Polaris Rangers, or those cool Kubota jobs). There is absolutely nothing in the law that says you can hang a slow moving vehicle sign on the back of any of these things and be legal. There are however a lot of laws about things like brakes, lights, safety restraints, tires, etc. that make these things a no-no on the road. Check out chapters 340-346 Wisconsin Statutes for some light reading sometime.

After we spike his tires, we interrogate him about how many acres of oats he put in and whether or not he signs for farm use at Fleet Farm.

Here in Wisconsin, we usually hold two to three auctions a year for all the seized "non-ag" tractors and golf carts picked up in these stings. The money we raise goes to the construction of the new detention center for holding repeat offenders, and for buying donuts.

Do you have a reference on that Wisconsin law? I googled it, but I couldn't come up with anything. I have a golf cart that I drive on a dead end road and have always been concerned that a cop would try to make trouble. I would love to see where I could avoid that with an SMV emblem.
Thanks.

Should your tractor be involved in an accident while operating on the road (even if not your fault), without liability and property damage coverage on it you could lose your financial a**.

There's simply too many people looking for a fast buck (and lawyers willing to assist them) to risk running without insurance!

I would suggest respectfully asking the officer what actual law he is referring to, and just how you can find it in your state's traffic or other laws. The officer might be right..... but I suspect he is "blowing smoke".

Obviously if a tractor driver has or causes an accident or other problem, there might be a good reason for a citation to be issued. Negligent driving, reckless driving and possibly obstructing traffic come to mind. But just driving a tractor down the road, minding your own business and not causing trouble for other drivers is permissible in my state. The question of insurance coverage, if there should happen to be a problem, is a good one, and one I will talk to my insurance man about.

Generally I seldom ever take my tractor on the public road. But once I drove a tractor home about 20 miles, because I didn't have a trailer that it would fit on. No problems for me or anyone else, it just took awhile at less than 10 mph. I had to pull off the road to let traffic pass a few times, but that was only being neighborly. Good luck!