A Rumley salesman(back in Indiana, and told to me by my grandfather)made an appointment to demonstrate a 4 plow Oil-Pull tractor. The neighbor was a dedicated horsemen. The salesman and the neighbor set off down the field making more progress in one round and 25 minutes, than his teams did in in 2 hours. The salesman had been operating the controls for two rounds when he asked the farmer if he would like to run it himself. I guess so he said. About 100 ft down the field, the salesman jumped off. (not dangerous at .8 miles an hour) and said he would take lunch while the farmar made the round. He went and sat under the road fence, and promptly went to sleep. Not a good plan. The farmer got to the far end following the furrow edge easily. When the headland was upon him, he panicked. forgetting all levers, ropes, and steering. Yelling Woah (and expletives unbecoming a faithful man) he drove through the fence and into the winter wheat in the other neighbors field. making 4 big circles of plowed wheat and dragging 15 rod of barb wire and posts (some of which limited escape options, and some of which wound up tight on the wheels). All stopped when it steered itself GEE right into a tree bigger than it could mount. Killing the engine. The farmer walked back to the salesman and suggested he was not convinced it was his intention to buy. The salesman ended up splitting the reparation of damage with the farmer, and sold the tractor to a different neighbor because it was unstoppable. The original farmer never owned a tractor, nor got a license to drive, but he had a son who made the transition in the 1930s. Jim
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Today's Featured Article - Talk of the Town: What's The "Stuckest" You've Ever Been? - by Edited by Kim Pratt. Another great discussion from the Tractor Talk Discussion Forum. The discussion started out with the following post: "I was about 14 (part of the problem) when I got stuck. I was disking with a cab equipped IH 966. The window was dirty and I was driving into the evening sun. It was hard to see and it was my first pass down the field. I got the tractor so stuck that the underside of the tractor was resting on the ground. My uncle wanted
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