Ever just go for a spin around the neighborhood?

[wahoowad 0]

Sometimes when I cut my grass with my Sears lawn tractor I will take a spin down the road, smile and wave at the neighbors. I feel foolish but fun at the same time. I think I'm the only guy with a riding lawn mower so I know they all think I'm crazy. I don't care, still kinda fun!

Is it bad for the engine to ride around awhile in high gear? I wouldn't think so. :thumbs:

[wheel horse 1045 2]

i think we all do that and we dont care who thinks were crazy :thumbs:

[Sparky-(Admin) 23,145]

It wont do the tractor any harm and its great therapy for the driver! I use my tractor to go to the neighbors all the time.

There is also a one mile trail behind my house that I sometimes take a cruise on. I end up in second gear and not third because of the rough terrain on the trail but it makes for a nice long ride.

Mike........

[rickv1957 74]

my friends and I go road trippin on the horses also!!,Rick

[chris11 184]

Im thinking i would take a ride to go down and see sparky on my tractor. Its 50 miles how long would it take? :thumbs:

[bork 0]

If ya travel 60mph= 1/2 minute! LOL

& yes I show off my horse , around the block! hehehe Felt just as good as a spin on the ol dirt bike! Should we have the big orange triangle on back?

[420lse 18]

Crazy is as crazy does Ride on!

Oh Yea :banghead:

[VinsRJ 723]

I know of a person here on the forum that rides his horse to work....

Ooops, I should've said "drivesssss" his horse to work. :thumbs:

[chazm 413]

Hello &

I think we all like to get our horses out of the barn for a ride now and then.

It makes them happy not to mention us too

:banghead:

[Ken B 3,189]

I'm the only guy in my neighborhood with a tractor also. I'm lucky that I have some dirt roads and even some trails in the woods that I often frequent with my seven yr, old son Cole ridin shotgun. When I go down to the mailbox (which is about a quarter mile from my house) by myself I sometimes get that blank stare from someone who doesn't recognize me. A few yrs. ago I took the Horse out with a trailer on Halloween with the kids in it, Its seems that caught on a little as I saw a few people out this yr. with lawn tractors.

[rydogg 186]

I like the idea of using the tractor and trailer for taking the kids around town for Halloween. I've got 3 kids so I get plenty of seat time pulling them around the yard and down to the neighbors in the wagon. My 3 year old follows me with the 3 wheel mower (swisher big mow).

[Greg Parnell 6]

Hey and

Yep, I take rides around the block and back thru the woods too. Great fun!!

[rocking 416 1]

I drove my farmall super A down the road my Kubota 2320 as well i live in a heavily populated city and i am the minority :thumbs:

[qd-16 14]

I do the same, when the kids were more willing I would hook up the wagon and take them on a ride. They would usually sit and fight with each other as I pulled them around the neighborhood.

[rocking 416 1]

We all should do that kinda like forest gump ya no maybe if one of us just starts driving people will do the same :thumbs:

[Cody 277]

I used to take the wheel horses out hor a ride around the nerghber hood once in a while, and one day i took my Farmall C for a ride and when i come down the hill to my house what do i see but the neighbor that lives across the road from me standing their with a state trooper. He stood there yelling me me and saying he might suspend my lisense, and tractors aren't allowed on the road because i don't own a farm, and the following winter i was plowing a neighbors drive and when i went to back up there was another trooper standing there, he was telling me i can't plow neighbors driveways because i travel on the road with the tractor, this neighbor never stops. Haha i guess its my luck to have a neighborhood nazi living across the road from me. But i still go out and help all the elderly neighbors with their driveways.

[rocking 416 1]

People must of had bad childhoods or somthing if that have nothng better to do then call the cops waste the cops time an everyone elses over somone driving a tractor its like wow

[HankB 16]

... and when i come down the hill to my house what do i see but the neighbor that lives across the road from me standing their with a state trooper.

Well, you can be happy about two things. First, you've got some great stuff to ride 'round the neighborhood. Second, your neighbor clearly has bigger problems than you!

Last week I rode about two blocks to a friends house the day he had his knee replaced so I could plow his drive. It turned out he wasn't coming home that day, but he appreciated the help anyway.

[bowtieguy 334]

In 06 I flew from KC to the big show in PA.....thought about buying just a one way ticket so I could drive the raffle tractor back home...guess it was a good thing that I did NOT win..but wouldn't a "slow cruze" thru the back roads of PA, OH,KY TN, IL been fun.(for the first couple miles at least)....talk about some "SEAT TIME!!!!! :thumbs:

[Iggy68 28]

Nothing like driving around the neighbor hood with a cold one in yer hand, Wonder if they could pull one over for open container :WRS:

[linen beige 15]

Nothing like driving around the neighbor hood with a cold one in yer hand, Wonder if they could pull one over for open container

Most likely.

I'm not up on the specifics of other state's laws, but in Kentucky it is illegal to operate ANY vehicle, motorized or not, under the influence. Non-motorized vehicles include animals, bicycles, roller skates,... What that means is that if you get drunk and try to ride a mule across your own farm you can be arrested. (It's illegal to be drunk on yer as$ in Kentucky.).

I almost hate to admit this, but one of my (now late) uncles was so notorious for riding his mower around town while "buzzed" that a judge took it away from him.

[Torino 15]

Hey, you have to keep the batteries charged up somehow. At least that is the excuse I use.

[JimD 3,347]

in the simmer time i ride over to see my neighbor 2 doors over when he can come out on the back porch with his coffee. we just shoot the breeze for awhile, it's a great ime,and it give the horses somethin to do that don't get much use. as for the drinking on a mower, check out some youtube vid of a drunk guy on a mower. one guy got popped more than once. the vidoe is shot from the dash cam. :thumbs:

[bitten 134]

I dont know about other states but in Ohio you can have a tractor and not live on a farm. You have to have a Slow Moving Vehicle sign to travel on the road and there are other stipulations.

I have been known to go for a cruse every now and then.

[jpmcleod 4]

In Florida you can operate a farm tractor without a drivers license or tag. You can bet the trooper that comes to your neighbors house thinks he is an embosil. I am thankful that all mt neighbors have golf carts, four wheelers and tractors. No one bothers anyone. I live in a farm belt area and everyone helps each other. I am like you, I mow the neighbors yard sometime for free because they can't aford a riding mower and I can't sit and watch him push mow. Kepp doing the nice things and believe me the trooper is on your side. I know because I am one.