Tractor Thread

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Ah, yes, but are we sure that it isn't really a disguised Zamboni for "proper"
treatment of winter roadways??

.....hhmmmm, now that you mention it, the little critter does look possessed of enough mischief to try to buff-up the streets a bit.

[webenda]

Anybody know what this thing is?

The city's been repaving a number of streets and I see this thing running up and down mine (they store it a few blocks from the work-site on a cul-de-sac down the road). I haven't seen it operating, doesn't look like it tows anything, doesn't look like it pulls up pavement...

Healey

The Wirtgen W 35 Ri is a small milling machine used to cut out small areas for partial roadway rehabilitation, milling around manhole covers or applying or removing road markings. They have been using one near my house (during a street widening project) as they continually redirect traffic flow so they can work on one side of the roadway or the other.

The old way was to paint the old markings black. As the black paint wore off it became quite confusing which line to follow, old or new? Now they mill the old paint off, hardly leaving a mark on the pavement where the old lines used to be.

[healey36]

Thanks for that Wayne (and Terry)...makes sense. I couldn't get around behind it to see what the apparatus looked like at the back. It's a precarious, top-heavy looking thing. Creeps along at 3-4 mph, for good reason.

Healey

[healey36]

Ah, yes, but are we sure that it isn't really a disguised Zamboni for "proper"
treatment of winter roadways??

I've seen the guys at the local Lowe's using a Zamboni-like rig to clean/polish the concrete floors in the warehouse...when the retirement money runs out, I'm all over that job!

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Ah, yes, but are we sure that it isn't really a disguised Zamboni for "proper"
treatment of winter roadways??

I've seen the guys at the local Lowe's using a Zamboni-like rig to clean/polish the concrete floors in the warehouse...when the retirement money runs out, I'm all over that job!

I want the job at Walmart where I can greet people with "Get your $hit and get out! Have a nice day!"

[HONDO74]

I want the job at Walmart where I can greet people with "Get your $hit and get out! Have a nice day!"

[healey36]

My wife and children at the Mason Dixon Historical Society meet some twenty-five years ago:



The one on the left is now a nuclear engineer for Bechtel, while the little ghetto one is a sixth-grade middle-school math teacher. Must have been all of those tractor meets I took them to...

Healey

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Healey, "little ghetto one" ?????

[healey36]

baggy pants, hat backwards...c’mon man, lol.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

baggy pants, hat backwards...c’mon man, lol.

That's what I thought but felt it wasn't for me to make such a conjecture.

[robert.]

Healey, you did well. I don't think it was that old tractor that did it. More along the line of having both parents take the time out with their kids. That's something you hardly see anymore. Everybody is so into FB. That they overlook their kids. Mom would rather tell her friends about her breakfast burrito. Then help her kids read a book. I get into a lot of peoples' houses for work. One thing i find now is nobody has photos of their kids. All these photos are now stuck on a digital device. Not hanging on the wall. That's not good for kids. They need to she their photos displayed for others to see.
I take my daughter to antique motorcycle swap meets. She don't care about rusty old bike. She cares more about the time she spent with her father. Well it's a toss up they have cotton candy there. She calls them the swamp. When are we going to another motorcycle swamp Dad? Anyway I truly hope my wife and i can do that well with her.

[HONDO74]

Healey
I will second what Robert said. Excellent parenting on your part.

[healey36]

She cares more about the time she spent with her father.

That's the key, mate...read to them and spend a bit of time with them. They really don't ask for that much.

[healey36]

"Plowing and seeding by steam":



South Dakota, 1907.

Healey

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Nice photo!!!

Seed drill......and looks like an auxiliary water tank wagon there, too.