Permits

2) Unlike an ATV, a State Trooper's cruiser can chase down a B fairly easily...and I've seen those Crown Vics be sent through some amazing abuse in corn fields! So ya gonna get away with it if someone complains.

3) From the State Statutes:
Sec. 14-1. Definitions.

(1) "Agricultural tractor" means a tractor or other form of nonmuscular motive power used for transporting, hauling, plowing, cultivating, planting, harvesting, reaping or other agricultural purposes on any farm or other private property, or used for the purpose of transporting, from one farm to another, agricultural implements and farm products, provided the agricultural tractor is not used on any highway for transporting a pay load or for some other commercial purpose;

In other words -- if you're not actually using it for farming, it's a motor vehicle and you need an operators license. If you're doing one of the above, it's not a motor vehicle.

The "rest of the story" is that we had bought a small farm that spring, and didn't have any equipment yet- so I hired a guy to cut, rake and bale my hay. I came home from the jail one evening, and our hay was cut, but so was all the grass around the buildings, in the orchard, etc. My wife related that a little old man had cut the hay, then came to the house and asked if he could cut the grass around the buildings, etc. She asked how much it would cost, and he said, "No charge- your husband was the only guy at the jail who treated my like a human being, and I would like to do something for him." My dad told me early on that what goes around, comes around, and I have seen it time after time.

We had a neighbor that did exactly the same thing. Went to town to grind feed, and never made it home in a timely fashion. Sometimes, I think the tractor knew the way home...

Numerous incidents of driving in the ditch, trying to drive on the RR tracks, having the endgate on the wagon open up and losing most of his load of feed by the time he got home.

Brings back lots of memories.