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My kids love it, they can sit in the front yard and watch John Deere tractors all day long. In the evening they get to get rides just before sunset.
Love it. Thanks for the pics.
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Now this is a proper color tractor.
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None of these tractors have anything on my tractor.
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How about the Porsche P312 Coffee Train?
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This gets the frauleins just a juicing.
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Edit: also, based on the failure to read Steve_in_NC's actual comment.
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Coffee Train P312
Salvaged from death by rust in a Brazil warehouse, freighted to the UK by sea in 2000, and, after two years being renovated, this extraordinary machine is a cross between a small submarine and a missile. It is believed to be the only complete and running example of the 300 or so Porsche tractors designed to work on coffee plantations and exported to Brazil (Note: some P312 have been reported as still running in Brazil but may have been converted to diesel).
[www.porschetractors.com]
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I've never driven a Deere tractor, but I've driven a few of these Deeres.
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I didn't really appreciate the difficulty of creating a good HDR image until I started to do them.
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Well, and the hot Dutch girls.
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Random fact: California produces more dairy products than Wisconsin.
I'm not sure if that's still true. The law protecting the dairy preserve was allowed to expire so builders could put up homes. Due to increased regulation and some very good deals for the land, many of the dairies moved to NorCal, Idaho, NM and TX.
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The Mexican-American husband of an ex-coworker was hired from CA to be the floor manager at a concrete plant here a few years ago. He relocated, started on the job, and then realized that almost all the workers spoke only Spanish...and that he was hired, in part, under the presumption of bilingual skills (which they never directly addressed in the interview). He didn't speak any Spanish. So they paid him to take lessons at night. There was so much fail and so much lol at the same time.
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@flyingstitch and the hamsters are friends again: I've put in hundreds of hours in one of these... road driving is fun when your tires take up the whole width of a township road's driving surface. People respect you.
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Wonderful, nothing like a farmer to make the city kids in their bimmers piss themselves.
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When I've got the wheels set all the way out, she's eight feet wide. What's that? You want to pass? Okay, let me get up to this wide spot...
...not there yet, hang on...
...little further, this is as fast as she goes...
...there we are, okay, scoot on around, Jesus what's the rush? Uh-oh.
Looks like you've dropped those pretty alloys in the ditch. Tsk. High-centered right on the driveline. That won't buff right out, either, will it. Too bad.
Well, hey, I've got this big ol' tow chain wrapped around the front axle. Say that's a lot of tire smoke, go easy Speed Racer. How many horsepower in that bad rascal? 375? Wow. Boy, that's a lot of smoke.
Me? 18 horsepower when she's on her feed. Where should I latch on this big iron hook? Yank you right out. Well, not yank. But I pulled my truck out with this very hook, your little go-devil's gonna pop right out, you betcha.
Boy that's a lot of smoke.
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