Tractor Title?

I hope we never see tractor registration down here you guys up north keep them things home.

Walt

On a related subject, kinda O/T though...I looked at a '70 Ford Torino GT on ebay tonight from I think Alabama(or one of the surrounding states)...the guy who wrote the ad said there was no title with the car since their state didn't require a title on a vehicle until '74. Said he'd supply a bill of sale and that's it....is this right??? No titles for cars down there untill '74? Caint hardly believe it!

Rod

That call turned out being my fine, he had the choice of not handing out a fine. Court costs were his own pocket money anyhow. He advised me to drop ticket off and he's process it.

It was shortly after that tractors changed to NO EXPIRY. Government were loosing money on the $2.00 annual registration, wanted to up it to $10.00. The NSFA went after and got the no expiry, we wanted them to do away with the plate and use a sticker much like a snowmobile. Couldn't get it through their skulls, that there is no provission on most tractors for a licence plate. I guess someone had good government contract for manufacture of steel plates.

Your right about the registration, I liked it, you have a title saying that tractor is yours. It certainly has discouraged tractor theft. Sorted out just who owned tractor in case of an accident. I still have the NS registration and plates for my SA and 130, most folks in ON don't quite know what to make of them. I had a OPP cruiser pass me one day, I expect he is still scratching his head how a Super A got that far from home. I discussed with an organizer one day about taking my tractor to a show. He said, "Leave the plate on, let the folks know how large a draw our show really is."

I'll be 30 in a couple months... so i really only remember the last few of the old plates kicking around the garage that never got fired away. Seems to me that the change was somewhere around 1980?
Funny story you tell about not having the plate on the tractor either. One of the local clowns stopped me about 2 weeks ago. He demanded to know 'where my sign was'. I asked him, "What sign?".... He didn't like that.... 'The sign for the back of your tractor!!'
I says, it's home... been there since a couple years when the seat was changed, and the bracket for the sign went with it... (along with the seat belt, but I didn't point that out to him). He spit and sputtered and wanted the sign put right back on, and so on, and I could be charged for not having it, blah blah. So I says I'll put it back on... Then he wants to know where the PLATE is?? "Well.... it's with the sign" He was less than impressed. Then he wanted my licence, looked at it, and was off...
I still didn't find his damn sign, and probably won't.
Just a bloody desk sargeant, out in a ghost car, killing time on a nice day, and half an hour out of his area... so I doubt I'll see him again. Crime must have been firmly under control that day....

Rod

The no expiry plate was in force when I bought my 1066 in 75. Again in 1976 when I bought a John Deere 540A forestry skidder and wanted to register it as a farm tractor. I went to the registry office with documents. The John Deere 540A was 10 months old, had been out on lease and registered as GT. The supervisor in charge tried to tell me, it had to be registered as GT. I said, "GT is no good to me, I can't tow implements using GT plates." It must have taken him the better part of an hour to make that decission. His reasoning, "we can't call it a tractor, it's not manufactured as such." I said, "It's built by John Deere, has the same engine, transmission, rear ends, hydraulic pump and chassis as some John Deere tractors. It is nothing more than a forestry tractor." He finally gave in, but no willingly.

Three years later I encountered the same with MF-550 combine. GP lisence would not allow me to tow 15' header behind on cart. Same fight all over again.

Rod

Round here, when it comes to tractors, possession pretty well covers it. I imagine a bill of sale would be nice, but proof of ownership isnt necessary in any way I can think of - though some form of receipt (anything on paper) should be sufficient to settle any disputes. If your checkbook makes carbon copies like mine, that should be enough if you indicate "tractor" on the memo line.