Minnesota sort of explains it: The winter in February means cabin fever has set in, the farm equipment repairs after harvest are done, the shop tools are there and wife says get out of house and away from TV. Leftover bits and pieces are in a corner to be cleaned, a couple rollover vehicles pulled from ditch get a insurance company abandoned for salvage slip so a good engine is avalable to fit on frame- but after making it run a body is needed and state has all sorts of inspection regs for a "rebuilt/salvager" vehicle-- but almost no hassle for a homemade "Implement of husbandry"-and if it looks like a self power manure spreader then it is a "implement of husbandry" that just needs brakes and some kind of muffler to be allowed on road, lights at night. Theft deterent also- the potential drug addled thieves don"t know of dealer who"d take it in trade and a police report of mobile manure spreader would get a quick response by any officer seeing it- hard to mistake for one of 10,000 others on local road like a stolen Ford Taurus(<--live stock reference here, beastly puns are fun). And at drag strip the bragging rights to fastest "crapper" or POS is good for couple free beers. Belleville, Wisconsin has a bunch of homemade UFOs made in Feb/March while waiting for the snow to melt, couple of them can keep up with highway traffic. RN
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