Stopped to ask about JD tractor in backyard.. .OOPS

My brother and I delivered a floating dock to a customer in Savannah Ga.a couple of weeks ago. We took the back roads from Charleston SC.where we live to avoid any law enforcement entanglements and look for old tractors. On our trip down we spied what we thought was a 4020 JD with bushes grown up around it behind an older house. We marked the spot and stopped on the way back. 90% of the time it is fruitless but hey you don't know until you ask. We parked in the yard got out of our truck and headed for the front door watching out for the dog that is barking at us. We were about half way there when an older Lady steps out and asks us what she can do for us. We introduced ourselves and told Her that we had seen the tractor in the back yard and had stopped to ask if it might be for sale. She told us that it had been sitting there for years and we would have to ask her husband. As she was answering us an older Gentleman came walking out of the house and Immediately my brother turns to him and starts asking tractor questions. The lady laughed and said he doesn't know anything about that tractor that's her boy friend not her husband. She assured us that every Sat. of deer season He left before daylight and did not get home till after dark. Need less to say we got back in our truck and left. It was a 5020 any way.

Ron

There is deer season and then there is dear season.......

Rick

You might have got a real good price on the tractor to keep her secret.

Hahahaha The things you learn without even meaning to.

I know somebody that kept trying to buy a tractor and was always run off by a "cowboy" out west. "It's not for sale!!!"

Well one day the cowboy was gone and the guy asked somebody else who told him that the cowboy didn't own the tractor, he just uses it for free and it belonged to a widow in town. The guy found the widow, bought the tractor and loaded it up. Bet there was a mad cowboy when he got back!!

The guy who told me that one spent years chasing tractors and could tell stories all day.....

You sure you were still in South Carolina? It sounds like the northcountry to me...

Makes you wonder what the husband was doing from dawn till dusk too lol

This guy is messing around with the wife of a man coming back home with a loaded deer rifle?? Possibly a 'scope? Maybe not the brightest bulb on the tree.....

Sounds like a Darwin award winner in the makeing.

Reminds me of a story I just read the other day in Hart Parr Oliver Collector Magazine. The writer was telling about a road behind their farm called Stamm Hollow Road. Said it was nicknamed Shotgun Hollow Road for a while. Seems the guy back in on the next farm had come home and caught his first wife with another man and shot them both. Said no charges were ever filed either. Claimed it was all true,that as a kid he had played all the time with the guys two grand sons.

What is it they say? Just because there is snow on the roof, doesn't mean there isn't still fire in the furnace.

Might have been an arrangement also, possibly you can't play a good tune on all old fiddles.