New member surge

[mcfarmall]

Seems like OTT has had a new member "bomb cyclone" in the last 7-10 days. Each one seems to be having trouble with fuel issues. I don't recall a surge like this in the 5 or so years I've been here. Must be all the COVID-19 tractors coming of age.

 

[motionclone]

Seems like OTT has had a new member "bomb cyclone" in the last 7-10 days. Each one seems to be having trouble with fuel issues. I don't recall a surge like this in the 5 or so years I've been here. Must be all the COVID-19 tractors coming of age.

Maybe they are just AI created bots using this platform as a test bed. Google lost control of its AI a few months ago so nobody knows what "they" are up to.

 

[mcmxi]

Seems like OTT has had a new member "bomb cyclone" in the last 7-10 days. Each one seems to be having trouble with fuel issues. I don't recall a surge like this in the 5 or so years I've been here. Must be all the COVID-19 tractors coming of age.

I wonder if some of it is corporate espionage. I've had no issues other than two self-inflicted ones with around 600 hours on Kubota tractors. I'm not that lucky, so I put my incredibly positive experience down to really well made products, but from many New Member posts you'd think that Kubota tractors are hit and miss.

 

[DustyRusty]

Is anyone taking bets on the oldest thread that will be brought back to life by one of these new members? Only time will tell. Seems that the only thing more prevalent than fuel gelling problems is snowblower problems.

 

[RCW]

We’ve seen similar surges on OTT over the years. Often come here with a particular problem, then you never see them again.

Non-starters and fuel problems seem to be the genesis of a lot of them.

 

[Henro]

I have no way personally to realize if OTT has any kind of membership surges...

But considering the time of year, I can't help but think it is a covert attempt by Santa Clause to evaluate possible Christmas presents for some tractor owners next year!

 

[rc51stierhoff]

I think it’s a couple things you have each touched on…plus if you follow demographics, there has a been a trend back to suburbs and even rural areas (they will need some sort of machine and compact tractors sure fit the bill)…COVID poured some fuel on that trend, supported by work from home policies…compound that with some frigid weather reaching into the Deep South…well, that’s what you get….it’s ok, they don’t bite…and can probably reciprocate some knowledge back to us if not belittled shamed or disrespected and chased off.

 

[hedgerow]

I grew up in a service station truck stop in the 60's and 70's and worked on a lot of gelled up, froze up trucks and TK units. The boys out of the south would up threw and not be ready for winter. I have been farming for forty plus years in a area with a lot of acreage folks. I have seen a few nasty winters in a row send a lot of town type acreage folks packing up and going back to town. I think Covid brought folks to the country again. They bought some Kubota diesel tractors and now some cold showed up in some areas that don't normally get cold and folks haven't been around diesels and what to do to make sure you don't have issues. I don't remember the last time I have had fuel issues with my snow pushing diesel. Its get number one fuel in the fall in it and has number one in it until spring gets here.

 

[Flintknapper]

I think it’s a couple things you have each touched on…plus if you follow demographics, there has a been a trend back to suburbs and even rural areas (they will need some sort of machine and compact tractors sure fit the bill)…COVID poured some fuel on that trend, supported by work from home policies…compound that with some frigid weather reaching into the Deep South…well, that’s what you get….it’s ok, they don’t bite…and can probably reciprocate some knowledge back to us if not belittled shamed or disrespected and chased off.

^^^^^^

Killjoy.....!

 

[rc51stierhoff]

^^^^^^

Killjoy.....!

Who knows, I could be wrong…maybe they do bite?! to be safe, don’t get them wet, feed after midnight, or expose to bright lights.

 

[Bmyers]

 

[D2Cat]

Is anyone taking bets on the oldest thread that will be brought back to life by one of these new members? Only time will tell. Seems that the only thing more prevalent than fuel gelling problems is snowblower problems.

If somehow folks could learn to check and clean battery cable connections at the battery and the ground at the frame membership would be down 25%.

 

[mikester]

The SPAM farms are fully operational again post covid. The people in India and China and Russia are back on the job using their VPN's to spam user groups and website contact me pages.

 

[je1279]

I recall a large surge when Texas had the deep freeze a year or two ago. Unsure if they were new members or existing members who never had those problems previously though.

 

[bmblank]

"bomb cyclone"

Ha. Saw that and thought, hey, he must live in the midwest. Then I saw the k-zoo.
I've heard that term so many stinking times a couple weeks ago it drove me insane.

 

[mcfarmall]

Ha. Saw that and thought, hey, he must live in the midwest. Then I saw the k-zoo.
I've heard that term so many stinking times a couple weeks ago it drove me insane.

Yeah, the MSM likes to keep the fear factor as high as possible. When I was a kid, the weather "event" we had used to simply be called "winter", or "cold snap".

 

[bmblank]

Did you lose power at all? I didn't. I suppose my preparations - starting up backup generator, and backup generator to the backup generator, and letting them run for a few minutes - held it at bay.

 

[jkrubi12]

It's surging 'cuz the word is out that we're figuring out the front snowblower problems!

 

[Krich]

Google lost control of its AI a few months ago so nobody knows what "they" are up to.

WHERE did you hear this at?

I've been reading about AI and have not heard this...

 

[Bmyers]