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Posted by booger (Member # 3602) on September 23, 2015, 12:31 PM:
I guess I am a Redneck X2...the current place I live, Great Bend, and the place I grew up, Russell, are #2 and #3 on the top 10 Western Kansas Redneck cities.
Cities is a loose term...don't think a population of over 15,000 or 4,400 defines a 'city'... ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
Lance skates by as Abilene is not in the Top 10...
http://www.roadsnacks.net/these-are-the-10-most-redneck-cities-in-kansas/
Posted by Cdog911 (Member # 7) on September 23, 2015, 01:19 PM:
In all seriousness, booger, if your county constabulary makes the news because one of your local boys steals a combine and leads them on a chase, you might be a redneck. (Barton County includes Great Bend).
http://www.kwch.com/news/local-news/man-driving-combine-leads-law-enforcement-on-chase/35430498
Posted by Kokopelli (Member # 633) on September 23, 2015, 03:16 PM:
What ???................No charges for operating a vehicle without a gun rack ????
And, what does one DO with a hot combine ??
It's not like you can park it down at Wally World with a `For Sale` sign on it.
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Posted by booger (Member # 3602) on September 23, 2015, 04:07 PM:
Yeah, wasn't going to bring that up, but since the cat is out of the bag...what a dumb ass that guy was!
Low speed chase, took out electric lines and left the corn header stuck in a pickup.
In all seriousness, I saw the damage he did to the patrol cars. I think the officers used incredible restraint, in light of the fact one of the officers was drug in the patrol car by the combine.
He is very, very lucky one of the deputies didn't step around the front of the combine and run a 30 round mag through the windshield.
Got a few phone calls this morning from jokesters wanting to know if I had that particular combine financed... ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
[ September 23, 2015, 04:09 PM: Message edited by: booger ]
Posted by Kokopelli (Member # 633) on September 23, 2015, 08:24 PM:
So........what IS the sticker price on a machine like that ?? Can't be cheap.
Does one farmer buy one and then rent it out to his neighbors or do a group of farmers go in together on something that will be parked 10 months out of the year ???
Posted by booger (Member # 3602) on September 24, 2015, 04:56 AM:
Dave can speak to the cost of a new John Deere, but the corn header alone on that machine would be around $125,000 new, maybe $80,000 used.
Don't know the year on the machine, but it was pretty new with the dual front tires...probably around $350,000 new.
Not hard to get close to $500,000 between the combine and assorted headers to cut wheat, beans, milo and corn.
Mostly the farmers are big enough around here to justify the cost of that type of machine. If they have a machine like that, they are raising, wheat, milo, beans and corn.
Sometimes they will hire out to custom harvest other farmer's crops.
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on September 24, 2015, 05:53 AM:
Yes, that's what a guy that had one told me. Custom harvest and shares whatever is harvested, be it alfalfa or corn. Starts paying for itself rather nicely.
Maybe that's all the perp was trying to do, harvest his crop with a borrowed machine?
Good hunting. El Bee
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