adgecutler 72 #1 Posted January 12, 2016 Many of you will have read my thread about the Raider I had stolen, I'm very pleased to say that yesterday she was returned to the site she disappeared from. Just last week I decided I would have to replace her as I do rely on her for many jobs through the year, not least to save me many hours mowing my allotment and other peoples grass. I ended up being offered a C121 at a price I could afford and made the decision to spend the money I had put aside for the reward I was offering on my missing tractor. Here is the Raider happily returned home alongside her new stable mate. 17 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
C-101plowerpower 1,605 #2 Posted January 12, 2016 i see you've got a plow and i like the wheight on the c121 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
adgecutler 72 #3 Posted January 12, 2016 (edited) I first became fond of Wheel horses in 1995 when I took a pocket money job at a small country estate, there there was a C141 that the boss had purchased in 1978, the year of my birth. This in fact was the first vehicle I had driven and I soon learned to reverse a trailer with it too. I'm now in charge of estate maintenance at that estate and I still run the C141 pretty much every day, whatever is required of it it manages, from raking driveways to scarifying to aerating lawns to hauling mowers around the grounds on a trailer to hauling many tonnes of wood from the woodland to the yard. She is very well worked and the engine shows wear in the bore and notably where the governor spindle exits the crankcase, you can wobble this about like a knitting needle in a bucket! Over the years it has been suggested several times that she be replaced but I won't have it and if she ever has failed myself or my Dad (sadly no longer with us) will spend a little time in the shed rectifying the problem and off she goes to work again. A few years back after realising our modern Kubota didn't like cutting the long grass areas I used two scrap tractors I sourced to build one good one and this is now used solely for long grass cutting and sports a sixteen horse engine. Here are my two flanked by the ever trusty C141 and the 16BHP mongrel. The wood you see behind them plus many hundreds more tonnes have all been hauled here from the woodland by the little C141 36 minutes ago, C-101plowerpower said: i see you've got a plow and i like the wheight on the c121 I've had the plough some time now, it's just placed behind for the photo but brackets have been in the nearly finished state of fabrication now for around two years! The weight is a lovely thing and quite rare I believe, but, unless you have an implement on the back it's awful on the steering, I much prefer the wheel weights on the Raider. Edited January 12, 2016 by adgecutler 16 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AMC RULES 36,945 #4 Posted January 12, 2016 Good lookin' herd there. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
squonk 38,902 #5 Posted January 12, 2016 Excellent!!!!! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
953 nut 51,627 #6 Posted January 12, 2016 Glad you got your baby back and thanks for sharing the herd with us. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
KC9KAS 4,741 #7 Posted January 13, 2016 Glad to hear your tractor found its way back to you. Did the police find it, or did it just "show up"? Think it was someone's attempt at a practical joke on you? 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RedRanger 1,468 #8 Posted January 13, 2016 I read your thread about the theft. Glad to hear your tractor found it's way home. On the positive side, you now have two! 57 minutes ago, KC9KAS said: Glad to hear your tractor found its way back to you. Did the police find it, or did it just "show up"? Think it was someone's attempt at a practical joke on you? Good questions. I'd like to know too. As for a practical joke, I wouldn't find it funny. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tankman 3,515 #9 Posted January 13, 2016 Don't all Horses go home? Their sense of direction is excellent. Without going back and re- reading your original post, think. Your Horse was "stolen." Great reason to acquire a replacement. Without a doubt. The new Stallion, resting peaceably, is awakened by an intruder, a lost Horse came home. Now they're a pair keeping each other company. I'm going to try your ploy on the lady of the house! Are we being truthful, "My Horse was stolen." Or, just a ruse to grab another Horsey? 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Wishin4a416 2,185 #10 Posted January 13, 2016 Glad you got your Tractor back! Thats good news. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
adgecutler 72 #11 Posted January 18, 2016 On 1/13/2016 at 0:21 AM, KC9KAS said: Glad to hear your tractor found its way back to you. Did the police find it, or did it just "show up"? Think it was someone's attempt at a practical joke on you? Sadly the Police didn't find it and it was definitely no practical joke. I don't wish to go into it too much on a public forum as I have what I set out to recover, all I can really say here is that persistence paid off and the tractor was dropped back to the spot that it was last sighted at. 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RedRanger 1,468 #12 Posted January 18, 2016 ...and you ended up with 2! That's not all bad. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Pullstart 59,644 #13 Posted January 19, 2016 Great for you that it was finally returned! I have had materials stolen from the yard with no help from the local authorities in the past and it's surely a headache coming to understand that someone simply got away with it. Most likely just for scrap money to boot! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Retired Wrencher 4,876 #14 Posted January 20, 2016 I am sure you are good things do happen. Gary B.... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites