Re: Longest 'road trip' on your own wheels

Posted by JPatton on November 03, 2004 at 15:15:38 from (69.76.159.207):

In Reply to: Longest 'road trip' on your own wheels posted by gwb on November 03, 2004 at 11:36:44:

Well, I know the first guy doesn"t have a chance when it comes to story tellin but in January of 1978, I took of on a 4320 John Deere from Topeka, Kansas headed to Washington, DC. (approx 1600 miles)as part of the American Agriculture Movement to bring attention to the farm plight. My father got the tractor to Topeka from western Kansas. If you look at Map Quest, it only shows a little over 1100 miles, but we didn"t always take the shortest route. I towed a 4 wheel drove pickup with a camper which I slept in. We traveled about 100 miles a day. I traveled with a group of about 100 other tractors (plus support vehicles). One guy had a 4020 with a PTO generator that would provide electricity for our group each nite when we camped right on the shoulder of the hi way. We had Hi way Patrol escorts all the way and traveled on Interstate Highway the entire distance except Missouri where the Governor thought it was too dangerous so he made us drive on old winding 2 lane roads. When we were driving with that many tractors (read that TRACTORCADE) we would be strung out for about 3 to 5 miles. We always had the slowest tractor in the front so the rest of us didn"t have much trouble keeping up. We didn"t travel on Sundays and it took us 16 days to get there. One of the guys in our group had his tractor impounded while in DC. When he finally got it back, he donated that 930 Case to the Smithsonian. It was still there the last time I went back! That is an experience I will never forget.

Jerry

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