WHNJ701 4,165 #1 Posted September 27, 2019 lately I have been seeing a few posts with pictures of tractors being displayed or stored in your houses like in the living room dining room etc... post your pics! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SylvanLakeWH 27,873 #2 Posted September 27, 2019 Brave be the married man that travels that path of doom... 3 7 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Tuul Crib 7,338 #3 Posted September 27, 2019 Its easier to beg for forgiveness than it is to ask permission to !! 2 7 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Achto 29,059 #4 Posted September 27, 2019 36 minutes ago, The Tool Crib said: Its easier to beg for forgiveness than it is to ask permission to !! Words that I live by. 3 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Stormin 9,983 #5 Posted September 27, 2019 2 hours ago, jabelman said: lately I have been seeing a few posts with pictures of tractors being displayed or stored in your houses like in the living room dining room etc... post your pics! Come on then! Where are yours? 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mickwhitt 5,068 #6 Posted September 27, 2019 I built a sixth scale model centurion tank that was 5 feet long, looked wonderful. Decided to try it in the living room while she was out shopping. Didn't look right so I retreated before she got home. Unfortunately the track marks in the carpet informed on me and that saying about begging forgiveness Really did not hold true lol. 3 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ebinmaine 71,352 #7 Posted September 27, 2019 We have tractors down in the basement on a very regular basis but that is kind of half den, half workshop so I'm not sure that counts. 3 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
formariz 11,995 #8 Posted September 27, 2019 Here is mine. Displayed in a prominent place so everyone can see it. Wife has absolutely no problem with it. 12 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
D_Mac 9,277 #9 Posted September 27, 2019 I keep a John Deere in my dinning room. Right behind the fire truck and next to the airplane. 2 5 1 5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Achto 29,059 #10 Posted September 27, 2019 A common scene in our spare bed room every winter. My tractor will spend at least a week in the house while I let the paint cure a little before assembly. 14 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Chris G 3,347 #11 Posted September 27, 2019 I don't have one that stays in the house, but i have assembled a few in the house. 7 7 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ebinmaine 71,352 #12 Posted September 27, 2019 @Chris G On the carpet evennn..... Awesome. 1 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AMC RULES 37,174 #13 Posted September 27, 2019 You haven't truly found nirvana... until you find the wife is stacking laundry on them... the cat is napping on them... and you find yourself decorating with parts from them for the holidays. 3 4 1 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Achto 29,059 #14 Posted September 27, 2019 A funny story about the first late fall/early winter after my girl friend moved in with me. She came home from work & I was setting up a ramp on the front steps. "What are you doing??" she asked. "I'm bring my Harley inside for the winter, just like I do every year" was my reply. "If that bike comes in the house, I'm moving out!!" was her reply. I said "Well, I'm gonna miss you. Now get out of the way" My bike spent every winter inside the house until I sold it about 8 or 9 years later. Oh yeah! My girl friend stayed & even married me, been together 27 yrs. Moral of the story? Heck I dunno, but it worked out well for me. No more bikes in the house for me, (For now ) The only display tractors that my wife allows in the house (so far) is part of my collection of 1/64th scale Case & IH tractors. Here is part of that collection. I started collecting these about '82 or so & have tried to keep up with the new Ertl releases every year since then, plus collected some of the older ones. I also have some made by other companies as well. I have 4 large totes full of tractors that are still in the package yet that I just don't have a place to display. 3 7 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JoeM 8,043 #15 Posted September 27, 2019 I don't work on any machines or have any in the house. This is all due to a conversation about 20 years ago. (it was more like a monolog) My wife said; the tractor hobby is okay as long as that stuff stays up at your work shop. You can have one machine in the driveway to ride back and forth. It ended up like there is an imaginary line posted between, kind of like the 38th parallel! I think the first 20 years of marriage provided her the knowledge to set up some rules. 2 3 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Herder 2,354 #16 Posted September 28, 2019 There slowly get closer and closer to making it into the house. 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Stepney 2,351 #17 Posted September 28, 2019 No tractor, but I do have a complete 1968 MotoSki Zephyr sitting in my basement. 4 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ri702bill 9,126 #18 Posted September 28, 2019 I bought this 702 that I call "the closest living relative" a while back and put in in the basement next to the washer and dryer. Got tired of going to the other garage for parts to fix my wife's Dad's 702 we were using all year long. Just like AMC, there has been a laundry basket on the hood from time to time. Bill 5 4 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Al C. 1,428 #19 Posted September 28, 2019 As close as mine are allowed to get .., 6 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
neil 2,410 #20 Posted September 30, 2019 Not mine but do have one of these tractors , 5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Skipper 1,789 #21 Posted September 30, 2019 Know it wasn't a tractor, but it sure took some forgiveness though When we were young hooligans, my friend got the idea that we needed to build a turbo engine for his bmw. Thing needed to fly. So we got the engine stripped, and the block send out for work, ordered all the parts in, and ............... figured it was a bit chilly outside. My friend lived at that time in a room in his parents house. School teachers both of them, and very very much on a straight path................................Not a crooked leave in the garden and so on...........................When they got home that weekend, they found two youngsters with an engine stand and basically all the tools from a well sorted garage, almost done building an engine on the previously white carpet...................... Good thing they were really peace loving folks his parents. Forgiveness came........................after a while! 4 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
c-series don 9,566 #22 Posted October 1, 2019 Does the basement count? Because I think I currently have 7 Wheel Horses and one Economy Jim Dandy down there! 2 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
WHX?? 51,060 #23 Posted October 1, 2019 Closes I get is washing parts in the slop sink in the laundry room. But Dear I need hot water for this... No more paint cure projects Dan.. I may need that spare room I get kicked out!! 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
953 nut 58,691 #24 Posted October 2, 2019 Closest I've come is parking one in the garage the night before a snow storm! Have to put down some plywood to keep from scratching the paint on the floor. 1 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Achto 29,059 #25 Posted October 2, 2019 (edited) 8 hours ago, 953 nut said: Have to put down some plywood to keep from scratching the paint on the floor. No offense here Richard, Just have never seen paint on a concrete floor that has fared well. Even the floors in our bathrooms at work ( which looked fine for 6rys before they painted them ) now they get painted with some type of epoxy paint every year to keep them looking presentable. Edited October 2, 2019 by Achto 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
