Amazing that they found it. I'm guessing that the owners of that property are known druggies and the cops drove by and wondered what they were doing with a nice tractor parked in the front yard.

JTEX ,
Great news on getting your stolen tractor back .

ps ; when you get the new one from the insurance
co , let me know---I'm sure we can work something out ! lol

Bob

Great news, if only they hung tractor thieves!

I'd loan you a rope that they can't trace back to you...............just sayin'

More kind words from more great guys! All the good karma may have worked......damn did I just mention karma...... AR is a wonderful place!

Went to the JD Dealer and got a new keyswitch, while there talked to 'em about Lo-Jack. Gonna sign up. $695.00 per tractor.

Trailer is still gone.......

Deputy told me they got an anonymous call about suspicious activity at a property, upon investigation they could see the tongue of a trailer protruding from the brush. They could see where the VIN plate had been ground off giving them probable cause to enter property. When they got back to the trailer they could see my tractor chained to the rear of the tractor. Called a wrecker had them towed in.

I thought the had my trailer too but it turned out to be another stolen trailer.

Ain't heard if they caught anybody yet.

Guy at JD dealer said theives often steal tractors hide 'em in the woods for a while to see if Lo-Jack finds 'em........

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Glade to hear that you got it back. NOW it time for a little tar & feathering party.

Dang, that is good news JTEX

But it begs the question, if this isn't your tractor in my barn ... then whose is it?

Well Wendell it must be mine. Ill be over directly to collect it.

Dang! I could run some serious bogs with a rig like Wendell's!
Jerry/AK

Start shopping for one on C.L., you'd be surprised how often people find there own stuff.

Ooops, I posted before getting to the end. My father-in-law had a small tractor stolen and found it advertised for sale on an equipment trader website. It was only three weeks after it was stolen.

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Originally posted by Wendell Reich:
Dang, that is good news JTEX

But it begs the question, if this isn't your tractor in my barn ... then whose is it?

Oops....I was wrong....apperently Wendell has my tractor......I'll bring the "wrong" one I got up North and swap ya' for mine!

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That is one big honkin' tractor! will plow a lot of food plots!!!

Glad they found your tractor. I get kinda sentimental when it comes to tractors, they're like a favorite dog or family member. Still wish I had my old Ford 8-N and 801 Powermaster.

Glad you got your tractor back! 2 stolen tractors have shown up here in my county in the last year, both purchased from craigslist.

The first one wasn't found out to be stolen until the local guy went to get some parts, so he was out the price of the tractor. The second one was trailered up from the South somewhere and the local deputy checked the VIN so the two thieves got locked up (man and woman).

This is unnecessary for you anymore JTEX, but there is a website called searchtempest.com that seaches all the craigslist and ebay websites in your area up to a radius you specify, and it would be handy when you are looking for a specific thing such as the model number of your tractor and then you could choose a 500 mile radius or other distance.

It's also handy for looking for something specific that you haven't had stolen and just want to buy!

I don't know about your stuff, but when I used to own and use tractors, both wheeled and tracked, I usually disabled them immediately after I was done with them for the day. With my itsy-bitsy gas D-4, I had a solid "air filter" that I would substitute for the real air filter. No air, the engine doesn't run, or even start. Pretty hard to load even a little tiny "Cat" like that onto anything if the engine won't run.
Other, much bigger tractors, I used other means to temporarily disable them. I'm sure you could figure out an easy way to make it immobile which would be hard to find/circumvent if a thief didn't know what the problem was before he tried to steal it.

A PITA, but two or three minutes at the start and stop of each day you were using it is a lot less time than it takes a farmer or rancher to earn the money to replace a stolen one...or at least I thought so...and in our part of the Pacific NW, tractor thefts were pretty common, particularly around unguarded logging sites or isolated fields in the middle of the timber.

Anyway, am glad to hear you got yours back.

Lloyd, good to hear from you! :-)