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Over in the Donut thread, Bean, attempting to clarify, asks if it by the word "cruller", i mean the pastries shaped like "tractor tires" that threw me for a minute--for me, a tractor is part of tractor-trailer.-- a semi -- the thing shown here in this commercial web page.. http://www.hvtechnology.com/tractortrailer.htmlbut what Bean meant, clearly, was what i would call a "BobCat"-- brand name i tend to use genericaly. here is an item from BobCat home page -- the best i could find with the tire treds showing clearly, http://makeashorterlink.com/?H57B12C51but the John Deere site had something pretty similar, with the same kind of tires, on what they call a tractorhttp://makeashorterlink.com/?A56B25C51the Goodyear tire site also has some pictures http://www.goodyearag.com/So the Point is, what do you call the first vehicle pictured in the first URL? and what kind of vehicle do you think of when you hear tractor? we covered some of this ground with a Woody-- (a large-ish jeep type wagon, with decorative wooden side panels.. ) but i think --given my thoughts on tractors.. What do think of when you hear a wagon a van a truck a lorry a car a minivan a pick up a panal truck a coupe a sedan i think SUV is new enough, that we would agree-- but how about a RV? and i am sure the are vehicles that i have missed.. (all those mini exurban stuff.. mini tractors (bobcat style))
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Oh man! I didn't realize that tractor wasn't universally understood to mean "vehicle for farming which pulls different attachments depending on what work is to be done". To me, it's one of those really basic words in the language, that you might find on an alphabet chart (along with an illustration of a fellow on a John Deere tractor!), so it didn't occur to me that it might mean something else. My meaning for "tractor" corresponds to the John Deere tractors in the link (agricultural in application - a BobCat couldn't be properly called a tractor in the west).
Regarding the links:
#1: I call this a semi-trailer, the front part is just "the rig" (something I learned recently is that Canadians tend to pronounce semi- or anti- like semee or antee rather than the USn form sem-eye or ant-eye, though this seems to be changing due to all the imported TV)
#2: That multi-purpose BobCat thing has no name in my vocabulary.
#3: Those are definitely tractors, as a side word-related note, they can pull sprayers, seeders, or cultivators, the other main farm equipment would be a combine and an auger.
#4: Those are also what I would call tractors.
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Hey, Helen, I couldn't get your link to work; then I took out a slash after the http. You may want to edit it out, but I'll put the link anyway. http://www.hvtechnology.com/tractortrailer.htmlThose are called semis, around here. I've had two British friends comment on how very large they are, compared to what they have in England. This link shows what I think of when I think wagon--it's the one labeled Texas buckboard, and the one just below it. http://www.firstshotphoto.com/carriage.htmHere's a link showing vans and a mini-van. http://www.sherrodvans.com/dodge_vans.htmlHere's one for panel trucks, thought I'd thought panel meant without windows on the rearward side panels. http://www.paneltruck.com/Oh yes--a Bobcat is one brand of front-end loader.
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tractor: What's them that's gots two little wheels on the front and two big uns on the back
tractor trailer: an 18-wheeler
I don't know no bobcats other than them's whats run around in the country all scraggly and starved-lookin' mos' times.
There's:
go-carts
sports cars
jeeps
station wagons
riding mowers
big wheels
dumptrucks
caterpillars
pickup trucks
batmobiles
bugs
double trailers
derby cars
ice cream trucks
buses
double deckers
earth movers
steam shovels (any still around?)
...and that's all I want to think about for now. But I never saw one of those bobcats, of troy, till you posted it jes' now.
Me, I like my Blazer and especially 4-wheel drive.
Brake regards,
WordWagon
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Helen, just for Wow and me (I think she's the only other one the really wide screens bother) can you shorten up your longer links? muchos grapenuts. http://makeashorterlink.com/
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well, NY has great parks, and wonderful natural places, like Little Neck bay, and the whole ocean front and atlantic beaches, and it has botanical gardens with a few acres of virgin forest, but Farms? the only farms i know are exhibits in museums! (there is one working farm left in all of NYC, and it is in Queens, but its only a few acres, the family also owns a farm out on the Island, and uses the NY one mostly to sell "farm fresh produce" that is actually produced on their Long Island farm.)
The only earth moving equipment i see, is as i zoom past road construction sites.. but bob cat like thing are used to excavate foundation for houses.. often bigger equipment can't manuover on small NYC lots.. (i have a huge peice of land (well for the moment, i have agreed to sell it!) a whole 80 X 100 feet! ) many houses in my neighborhood are on lots sized 20 X 100!
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of troy:
You come on down South and visit me on the farm. I'll show you lots of tractors! We've got all sizes and shapes around here in Dinwiddie--some are even air-conditioned! Ha! Wimpy farmers!
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Another good catchall term for a "personal tractor" is Skidster. Most people with a lot larger than an acre or two seem to need one for some purpose or another. Here's a picture of one http://www.opico.co.uk/skidster/
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Hello and welcome, Eyes I Knew! Well, except for a typo, you seem to have learned the conventions here pretty fast. Good on ya.
What does your intriguing handle mean?
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Helen - I couldn't tell from your post - what do you call the John Deere thing that a farmer drives around on?
I'm amazed that the John Deere sense wouldn't be the first one that comes to mind on hearing the word tractor (at least for a US'n - I never know which way the rest of y'all's gonna jump), and I'm a city boy, born and raised. I call the thing that pulls the trailer on an 18-wheeler a semi, like Signorina Bean.
And I'm with Jackie - your Bobcat™ is just a brand name for an itty-bitty front-end loader.
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