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Favorite Comment: Fixer Joe says, “School bus says: I made you a tractor, but I eated it.”
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OMG! What did they do to KITT??!!
I was going to comment, but I can’t do better than this.
Well, at least KITT’s aged a little better than David Hasselhoff…
Hey, don’t hassel the hoff! (kill me)
Now THAT’S what I call a field trip.
what I want to know is just how fast was that tractor going when it hit the back of that bus?
rapid deployment of tractors along the interstate
This is what I love about farmers.
this is a modified tractor to pull a sled at “truck pulls” if you could see inside the bus you would probably see 2 or 3 big block engines on this “tractor”. This is what happens to us rednecks with money and time and a yard full of engines and a school bus. Where is this tractor going? The fair, of course. google “tractor pull” for some of the best displays of redneck engineering you will find.
Shenanigans! (or to be crude, Male Bovine Fecal Matter!) Pull my other leg…
Why go to all the trouble to disguise a pulling tractor by hanging a brush hog mower off it? And they wouldn’t leave the rollover bar and roof on it, they shave off everything that isn’t making horsepower.
Nononono! Don’t be misunderstood!
That is actually one of the kids’ projects for Geography!
You can see it by the kid thumbing for and smiling towards it sitting next to the windows’ reflection!
Wow! If that thing is pooping tractors – I don’t even want to know what it’s *eating*!
Saw a school bus converted to haul a guy’s race car inside. Even had a couple bunks and some work space. Necessity is the mother of invention, I guess. Race trailers ain’t cheap, either
When I was in school we only did a couple of beans on a baby food jar. This is kicking it up a lot of notches.
Like so many pics on this site, I would love to know the story behind this, but out here in rural America, this is a very normal type of kludge. As others have said, this is why I love farmers and necessity is the mother of invention.
That isn’t just a tractor, note it’s got a brush-hog mower on the back.
Would be interesting to get the details, but the cheapest source of a medium truck of that class *by far* is the County Auction. They have to keep school buses in good repair, so whatever finally sidelined it is usually non-critical.
Slice off the rear, grab a Hot Wrench and slice a wedge out of the framerails and droop them just past the spring perches, und Voila!
When I lived (and did some local trucking work) in rural Delmarva, much of the school bus service was provided by private contractors. They upgraded their buses on fairly regular basis (probably a requirement), so there were a fair number of old school buses in working order around for people to hack around with. The chicken companies also use them, I think for hauling chicks from farm to farm.
School bus says:
I made you a tractor, but I eated it.
All that work- they could of at least made room for the WHOLE tractor. Just sayin’…
I saw this and my immediate thought was, “That is so, so Vermont!” I mean, agriculture? Creative welding? Repurposed yellow schoolbus? Add these up and yup, Vermont. The license plate doesn’t seem to be Vermont but it’s clearly the product of a Vermont-like attitude.
This photo was taken outside of Damascus, Arkansas.
Awesome! Reminds me of the old days with some Dr. Frankenstein LEGO experiments.
This is how school districts are saving money these days. They can haul children and their yard work machines with the same vehicle. Problem is, if the bus driver has to hit the brakes hard, that would really mow them down.
Now you see the BUSiness end of farming
. Saving money, recycling, and dual purpose vehicles.
The farmer is obviously a Trekkie…. used a tractor beam to load it.
Looks like a Michigan plate. My son would definitely dig this.
Farming meets Spy Hunter…
“Dad, you can have your John Deere back, I found out that’s not what they mean by a Pro Tractor…”
Not a Deere tractor. But a good comment!
Looks like desegregation finally hit the farming communities.
Not really… It’s in the back of the bus. :>0
School district cutbacks. School bus rides and farming school lunch.
There’s a license plate. There is a license plate?!?
“When I was a kid, I walked 4 miles to school, uphill both ways, barefoot, in the snow. Now I take the bus to work.”
“Mom, Grandpa is repeating his stories.”
Hey, guess what I’m bringing to Show and Tell!
So where’s the horses?
I want to know how they bent the frame of the bus behind the chop top, or did that just happen the first time they loaded it?
Nest is a little short on cash these days, so they down graded from a
C-17 to a Blue Bird bus and Optimus has transformed to match.
Let’s not overlook the obvious when squinting at that license plate, either. Is it just me, or is that “Lucifer” painted in yellow on the bumper?
Lucifer?!? No, it says “Ward” – They build school buses.
I’m thinking the Great Satan owns that thing.
OK, I see that now. The upper half is in shadow; I think I was trying to make sense of reading just the lower half of the letters, or something like that.
Disappointing, now.
I guess Otto was fired and now Groundskeeper Willie is driving the schoolbus!
i cant believe this thing passed inspections
Why not? This is NOT rust damage, they cut and drooped the frame-rails and the body past the axle on purpose to form the loading ramp.
That way they only have to put 6′ – 8′ long loading ramps to climb 18″ or so, rather than a 16′ long double ramp to climb the full 3 feet. Ramps that big and strong enough for a tractor get really heavy and/or really rickety. And you have to be on the tractor to drive it.
REDGREEN STRIKE AGAIN!