It just cost me $916 to fill the fuel tank on my farm tractor

You don't pay taxes on shit you buy and you get a huge gubbermint subsidy check in the mail.

Why should I even remotely have any sorrow for you?

Time to hitch your woman to the plough and get the whip out.

Damn ! that sucks ! it cost me 75.00 to fill my jeep, that even sucks more ! I am a truck driver, try looking at the price to fill up 200 gal. of fuel in that, $$$$. + there is a big diesel fuel shortage scare here in colorado and yesterday when i was up in wyoming there was a lot of talk on the CB that most of the flying J truck stops were out of diesel and the other truck stops were having big problems with the comdats, and that they were rationing fuel and lins for truckers to get fuel were 3 hours long. WTF !

Were did you get the idea we don't pay taxes? Most of the subsidies go the the big farmers. I don't feel sorry for them either.

Get a work horse or sell your farm.

:dubya:

How long does a tank of gas last on a tractor?

Maybe you should check this out.

[link to www.homebiodieselkits.com]

Or just do your own research on Google.

Because Otto Diesel designed his motor so that the farmers who bought it could run it on what they grew in their fields, not from what some mega corporation stole from the brownskins.

Just curious, OP, but what are you running a Caterpillar D-8 or a 400 hp articulated frame turbo diesel with dual wheels all around? Does your tractor hold 375+ gallons of fuel?

How many acres can you plow and/or disc on that fuel load? 500? We are talking about a 14 hour or 16 hour day aren't we? Running under lights and all that?

One guy with the right machinery can do "work" of 10 tractors 30 years ago. How big is the gang-plow you are pulling? 60 feet?

Good luck on your efforts.
For the amount of work that can be done with one gallon of diesel, it is a bargan at any price under $7. Hope you get a good yield for your investment.

Park it and let the people who bitch about farm subsidies starve to death.

what does it normally cost to fill your tractor?

It cost me $3.75 to fill up my lawnmower!

Good answer. If the public only knew about where the lions share of the agricultural budget goes.

In the original post, he said one day.

depends on the tractor and what you're doing with it.
My Duetz 4507 will run for about 3 days at idle, turning a generator.
But, if I crank it up and do heavy work with it, it burns fuel much faster.

For farmers reading this post are ya happy with the latest USDA propaganda report on crops? I am so happy to have my corn lose 5% of its value today cause some DC bureacrat says that we have a larger crop than expected. Ya know they all have their ass on the line, not. If they can make these astute determinations, they should put up or shut up. Put their money on the line and watch what would happen.

Imagine how much it will cost when oil is $98 barrel shortly. Only the very wealthy are going to make it. Prepare.

I'm running a 865 cat ag tractor. it takes about 1.65 gal an acre for deep tillage and about .65 gal acre for light tillage. I've been using 'cheap' fuel i bought this spring untill now but now i have to buy fuel again at $3.00. we don't pay road tax on fuel for field work.

HOw can there be a surplus of corn with the drought etc

All the news I read and reports said the corn crop was not good at all, due to drought.

Drought's real, sure irrigation, but thats expensive etc, and not all have it.

5 percent in a drought.

What about wheat, Wheat was also affected by the drought.

Really?
I'm not a farmer but, man, that sucks.
I thought all the projections were saying a shortage this year?

Okay. I no longer have a right to gripe (well...........as much of a right) about the $62.00 it cost to fill up my car.

You farmers probably already listen to him, but here's a site you want to check out:

[link to www.derrybrownfield.com]

He has info on the National Animal I.D. system.

Typical Bush supporter.

You tell 'em, tiger. Hope you like starving to death, fucktard.

Or will you just suckle at Lord Bush's teat if the food runs out? Maybe he'll multiply the fish three times a day for 280,000,000 people.

what are you running? a case, white, new holland? and is that 916 bones in red fuel? if so, wow fuckin' wow!!!. I run a kesmac sod harvester for my job and we go thru about 20 gallons of red fuel for every 100k sq ft. of sod. are you a member of a fuel co-op? if not check into it as you could save a lot of money.

must be a 'prid pro quo'.

OH WELL

I DON'T REALLY NEED FOOD ANYWAY !!

STUPID MFING IDIOTS!!!

YOU JUST DON'T GET IT..

YOU WILL SOON BE PAYING $10 FOR A BIG MAC

$12 A GALLON OF MILK

WAKE UP ALREADY

‘Revolutionary’ farmer arrested for driving vegetable-powered truck

Friday, August 4th, 2006

John Lichfield in Paris

A French farmer faces prosecution for driving on public roads in a vegetable-powered truck.

Olivier Lainé, a cereals farmer based near Rouen in Normandy, believes he will go down in history, not as a criminal, or tax-evader, but a “revolutionary”.

M. Lainé, 49, was arrested near his farm by French customs officers. He faces prosecution for driving a vehicle powered by an “unauthorised fuel” - namely pure vegetable oil, made from colza, or rape seed, grown on his own farm.

An EU directive passed last year instructs member states to encourage the use of pure vegetable oil as a form of fuel for diesel-powered vehicles. Paris has failed so far to translate the directive into law.

“They say that I am breaking the law. I say that they are breaking European law,” M. Lainé said. “We will see who is right. What I am doing will be seen as the beginning of a revolution. The world is short of fossil fuels. It has a surplus of agricultural produce. Using pure vegetable oil as a fuel can make a small contribution to solving both problems.”
M. Lainé is spokesman within the département of Seine-Maritime for the militant small farmers’ union, the Confédération Pay-sanne. The union accused the French government yesterday of “hypocrisy”.

Paris talks of making a contribution to a cleaner environment, the union said, but blocks local initiatives to use pure vegetable oil.

The use of vegetable oil as fuel is authorised for vehicles while operating on a farm. It is illegal to drive vegetable-powered vehicles on public roads because no tax has been paid on the fuel.

I seee I have my very own AC troll.

Glad to see I got under your skin.

And

I wasn;t even trying.

Yeah, red state, vote for oil men again. .......