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Reading some of the comments on George Msrsh's post about British Iron reminded me of three young men in the neighbor hood where I grew up. They were likely in their early thirties, neither had a drivers license due to heavy drinking. Hard working young men during the week, but come the weekend "hard working" was replaced with "hard drinking". One of them owned a Farmall Cub, and I remember more than once, seeing them go down the road, all three pretty well smashed, One driving, one hanging on the back, standing on the drawbar, and the other laying across the hood holding the governor open! How they survived, I will never know.
 
Just out of my immediate neighborhood there were three brothers who would load up on an old WC Allis Chalmers and ride over to town to get drunk. One night on the ride home one fell in front of a rear tire and was groaning so one of the others grabbed the crank from the bracket on the fender to finish him off. The other one asked why he was going to beat him with the crank. The one with the crank said, "He is going to die anyway"!

He lived to ride again!
 
My X Brother in law drove a JD-A all over the place due to a DWI and no license. He had a pick up bed trailer he would use to take his family shopping and he drove it back and forth to work
 
Heck, in the early sixties i drove my Norton to school and all over town, i had no license either,..i wasn't even 14.
I didn't drink yet either though,..not for another 2 years anyway lol
 
Drunk drivers with pulled license using tractors happens some in Wisconsin, tractors in the ditch at times. The Green County Amish get to chuckle at drunk "English" needing rides home from party in a buggy. Rumspringa for some of the amish boys does have some imbibing- but the designated "driver" has actual "horse sense" to get them home - or at least to the barn. RN
 
That reminds me of a guy here in town who did the same thing. He had an old stem wind A with the hoop gone from the steering wheel. He pulled up behind the IGA one afternoon and left it running. He came out with two big paper sacks of groceries and a watermelon. He managed to get up on the seat,had a grocery sack in each hand and the watermelon between his legs,then he tried to back up with that hand clutch,trying to turn that hard steering thing with the steering wheel spokes.
You had to be there. lol
 


"One of them owned a Farmall Cub, and I remember more than once, seeing them go down the road, all three pretty well smashed, One driving, one hanging on the back, standing on the drawbar, and the other laying across the hood holding the governor open."

Probably on the way to the liquor store!
 
(quoted from post at 17:24:25 08/26/14) Norton as in motorcycle?????
Click to expand...
es Sir, 500 cc Norton Dominator :D
At that time the second motorized vehicle on our farm.
The first one was a AC B tractor...also mine ;)

Dad was scared of these things,he rode his horse or a bicycle :)
 
There have been several incidents of people with suspended licenses getting arrested for driving tractors and even riding lawn mowers while drunk here in Texas.

My son-in-law's dad had lost his license for dwi. He started driving an atv then as he lived in a very rural area. One night a couple years ago he drove 4 miles to a bar and got drunk. On the way home he turned a corner too fast and flipped the atv. He lay there until 11 A.M. the next morning when someone found him. They said he died immediately as the atv was a large one.
 
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