Stolen Tractor

Gene Dotson · Nov 3, 2009

The following message was forwarded to me concerning a stolen tractor in Kentucky. He would appreciate any information on this... Gene

A tractor friend in south central KY, Monroe County, had his tractor taken (from hayfield, had been mowing) earlier this week. Tractor is a IHC 684, wfe, 1980(+/-) model, approx 60 HP, rough paint, one headlight missing, with Bushhog loader. His phone is 270-427-0535; his sons phone is 270-427-6175.

Nancy Howell · Nov 3, 2009

Sorry to hear that.

My father-in-law had 27 big rounds stolen out of his hayfield one year. Happened in broad daylight, neighbor saw them loading it up, just thought he had sold it.

Since then, we never leave hay or equipment in the field, even just over night.

Gene Dotson · Nov 3, 2009

Stranger thing than this happened a few years ago near my brother's home. Farmer had 12 acres of corn behind a woods. Shortly after dark a combine and trucks entered the field and shelled the corn and hauled it all out and left. Couple days later a neightbor asked how the corn yielded? Farmer told im he didn't know, he hadn't shelled it off yet.

Anonymous-0 · Nov 3, 2009

Sad to hear about the tractor being stolen, theives need to be shot on site if caught red handed. About 15 years ago my neighbor had a 2000 Ford sitting across the road from my house in a barn, the thugs cut the chain on barn door, unhooked the bushog and evidently winched the tractor up on trailer and left, this must have been in middle of the night. Well about 3 years had went by and neighbor got a call from a sheriff's department in another county east of us, someone had put the tractor in shop to have work done on it and law enforcement was called by the shop after serial number was identified. Neighbor got tractor back after 3 years and it had a new paint job, new grill, new tires front and rear, new running lights, alternator, and other stuff. It's funny that when he went to i.d. the tractor he didn't believe it was his cause it didn't look that good when it was stolen. He was very fortunate to get it back.

Tony S. · Nov 3, 2009

A farmer I know went out one morning, there was a little pickup that had been smashed by a big hay bale. Thief had used the farmer's loader and dropped the bale on his pickup.

Nancy Howell · Nov 3, 2009

Ahaah! So there's justice after all!

colekicker · Nov 3, 2009

Dad and I cut a hay field one year. Well, the next day the guy next to the placed asked if we were getting someone else to bale hay for us now. They were using a green tractor.
Everyone knows we don't run green tractors.
We drove by, saw who was baling it. Didn't say a word. Went and got the trailer and some boys to haul squares and cleaned our meadow.
Never did hear anything from the guy that baled the hay for us

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fixerupper · Nov 3, 2009

Custom harvester went into the wrong field? It happens once-in-awhile. Don't ask me how I know!Jim

Mike (WA) · Nov 4, 2009

I was about half done mowing a 5 acre piece one time, and a guy stopped and asked why I was mowing his field. I told him George had given me the field- he said that's George's field across the fence. That was a horse pasture, not a hayfield, so I had assumed this was the field.

He said, now that you've started, what would you charge to finish? We arrived at a price, I finished, two days later it started raining and the hay was ruined. I wrote off the money and never called about it, but lo and behold, a couple monthes later, I got a check. Pretty stand-up guy.

scot in pa · Nov 5, 2009

There was a shiester near us that got all his equipment repo'd a couple times and the real estate company evicted him, but they had to give him a year because he had kids. They leased the ground to another guy, who made the hay, and left the loader tractor there because it's several miles down US 19 to get home. They went back a week and a half later, the hay was gone, the tractor had been used to move some dirt, and was out of fuel.

My friend had a couple state cops show up last spring looking for a loader he had bought and resold. Turns out the guy that stole it modified the serial number and ran it through a sale.

How they found it, is the guy did this with several dozen pieces. All through the same auction. All John Deere. One piece went in for service, and the numbers didn't match, they ran the ones they found inside and it came back stolen. One call and they had info every piece the guy stole.

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