Purchasing a Vintage Tractor, How to Avoid the Pitfalls

[Diabetes]

Detailed research should always be the first thing you start with when looking to buy an antique tractor. Research books are available that contain this information providing every detail you need to know about a particular tractor model.

[Vandy Vol]

Detailed research should always be the first thing you start with when looking to buy an antique tractor. Research books are available that contain this information providing every detail you need to know about a particular tractor model.

Can you get me a custom tracker designed by Jim?  I really want sequins on my John Deere...

[Buzz Killington]

You really shouldn't be outside driving any tractor...let alone a vintage one with diabeetus.

[djsimp]

Can you get me a custom tracker designed by Jim?  I really want sequins on my John Deere...

Each purchase comes with a months supply of insulin. Needles sold separately. 

[Snaggletiger]

She thinks my tractor's sexy.

[Vandy Vol]

Each purchase comes with a months supply of insulin. Needles sold separately.

Interestingly enough, if you are diagnosed with diabetes, you are in danger of losing your CDL:

http://www.askthetrucker.com/insulin-diabetes-and-the-cdl-truck-driver/

[Saniflush]

Interestingly enough, if you are diagnosed with diabetes, you are in danger of losing your CDL:

http://www.askthetrucker.com/insulin-diabetes-and-the-cdl-truck-driver/

But you don't have to have a CDL to operate a tractor. 

[Vandy Vol]

But you don't have to have a CDL to operate a tractor.

Not as of now, but it's recently been considered by many states.  Keep up with the times, old man.

[Saniflush]

Not as of now, but it's recently been considered by many states.  Keep up with the times, old man.

I cannot help that I learned to drive on US 231 at the age of 9 on a tractor with a hay rake attached to it.

[Vandy Vol]

I cannot help that I learned to drive on US 231 at the age of 9 on a tractor with a hay rake attached to it.

I never learned how to drive.  I can't reach the pedals.

[wesfau2]

I cannot help that I learned to drive on US 231 at the age of 9 on a tractor with a hay rake attached to it.

That's a slow ride to PCB.

[Saniflush]

That's a slow ride to PCB.

Never got to go that far. 
The warden would always make me turn off at the hayfields around Pine Level.