# 65th Anniversary of Will on Tractor Fender by Dying Farmer **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 26, 2013, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/65th-anniversary-of-will-on-tractor-fender-by-dying-farmer/672304 "2013-10-26T13:11:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Tully\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7ab992/32.png) [@Tully\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tully_Mars)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2013, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/65th-anniversary-of-will-on-tractor-fender-by-dying-farmer/672304/21 "2013-10-28T13:24:21Z")
> [@74westy](#): > > [ol] > [li]Find a rich guy with a tractor[/li][li]Drop tractor on him[/li][li]Write, “I leave everything to 74westy” on fender.[/li][li]Profit!!![/li][/ol] The major flaw with that plan is #1. It may be a problem finding a rich guy with a tractor. If he was rich, he isn’t after he paid for the tractor. You’re more like to find a guy on a tractor with a lot of debt. The tractor may represent a large portion of his net worth and once it rolls over, his estate will be diminished greatly. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Goob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c77e96/32.png) [@Mr.Goob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Goob)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2013, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/65th-anniversary-of-will-on-tractor-fender-by-dying-farmer/672304/22 "2013-10-28T19:36:12Z")
I actually knew a very wealthy wall street guy who owned a cattle farm. My friend lived there full time and ran it. The rich dude came up on a few weekends here and there to putter around. Why I remember this almost 20 years later is because he was rough on equipment, fits right into the 4 step plan mentioned here. An example I remember vividly, rich dude was taking the brushog on the back of the tractor and smashing it over and over into a rock he wanted to get rid of. My friend ran up asking what the hell is he doing? Knowing he’d be fired on the spot for being that reckless. The rich dude said screw it. I’ll buy another brushog, I want this rock gone. It was a very hilly farm, hmmmmmmm, could have worked… ---
**Author:** ![Saintly\_Loser](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saintly_loser/32/4045_2.png) [@Saintly\_Loser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saintly_Loser)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2013, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/65th-anniversary-of-will-on-tractor-fender-by-dying-farmer/672304/23 "2013-10-28T21:54:46Z")
> [@Dangerosa](#): > > Its jurisdictional. I think that is usually the case, but not always. Definitely not true where I live, as my family found out when my mother died without a will. ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2013, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/65th-anniversary-of-will-on-tractor-fender-by-dying-farmer/672304/24 "2013-10-29T14:55:41Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > The title may be obvious inretrospect, and even evident if you think about it, but my mind’s immediate reaction was to picture an oil painting of a guy named Will reclining on a Tractor Fender, as painted by an artist inexplicably named Dying Farmer. Better than my brain. I was parsing out about some Fender Guitar (is “Will on Tractor” bizarre technical customization I’ve never heard of, or rhyming slang for Stratocaster?") once owned by Dying Farmer, who is clearly an old Blues musician. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2013, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/65th-anniversary-of-will-on-tractor-fender-by-dying-farmer/672304/25 "2013-10-29T15:09:03Z")
> [@74westy](#): > > [ol] > [li]Find a rich guy with a tractor[/li][li]Drop tractor on him[/li][li]Write, “I leave everything to 74westy” on fender.[/li][li]Profit!!![/li][/ol] > [@Tully\_Mars](#): > > The major flaw with that plan is #1. It may be a problem finding a rich guy with a tractor. If he was rich, he isn’t after he paid for the tractor. You’re more like to find a guy on a tractor with a lot of debt. The tractor may represent a large portion of his net worth and once it rolls over, his estate will be diminished greatly. Revision: [ol] [li]Find a rich guy.[/li][li]Find a nearby tractor.[/li][li]Park tractor on him.[/li][li]Write, “I leave everything to 74westy” on fender.[/li][li]Profit!!![/li][/ol] ---
**Author:** ![ShadowFacts](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shadowfacts/32/2934_2.png) [@ShadowFacts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowFacts)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2013, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/65th-anniversary-of-will-on-tractor-fender-by-dying-farmer/672304/26 "2013-10-29T17:17:19Z")
> [@Mr.Goob](#): > > I actually knew a very wealthy wall street guy who owned a cattle farm. My friend lived there full time and ran it. The rich dude came up on a few weekends here and there to putter around. \ > > An example I remember vividly, rich dude was taking the brushog on the back of the tractor and smashing it over and over into a rock he wanted to get rid of. My friend ran up asking what the hell is he doing? Knowing he’d be fired on the spot for being that reckless. The rich dude said screw it. I’ll buy another brushog, I want this rock gone. An Analogy of Modern-Day America (as evinced in some random story about a tractor) ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2013, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/65th-anniversary-of-will-on-tractor-fender-by-dying-farmer/672304/27 "2013-10-29T17:57:27Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > Bear in mind, if the will was accurate, it disinherited any of his children, who would have been entitled to a share of the estate if there were no will. That’s a fairly significant impact, and the courts have to be sure that was the intent before they allow the estate to be probated. Interesting, in Spain there is a part the children would have gotten anyway, unless they did something stupid such as sign papers saying they’d already gotten their part beforehand (can I kill my mother and aunt now? - if either one dies before grandma, the grandchildren on that side get nothing, and if gramps hadn’t been so old when he died, they would have had to pay taxes on money they had not gotten and were not getting). How much that part is varies from region to region, just to give the lawyers something to be confused about. To keep the children from getting that part you need a specific judicial process, the will isn’t enough. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2013, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/65th-anniversary-of-will-on-tractor-fender-by-dying-farmer/672304/28 "2013-10-29T18:58:18Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Revision: > [ol] > [li]Find a rich guy.[/li][li]Find a nearby tractor.[/li][li]Park tractor on him.[/li][li]Write, “I leave everything to 74westy” on fender.[/li][li]Profit!!![/li][/ol] Revision #2: [ol] [li]Find a rich guy.[/li][li]Find a nearby tractor.[/li][li]Park tractor on him.[/li][li]Write, “I leave everything to 74westy” on fender.[/li][li]Profit!!![/li][li]Brag about it on the Internet.[/li][/ol] ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2013, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/65th-anniversary-of-will-on-tractor-fender-by-dying-farmer/672304/29 "2013-10-29T19:14:17Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > The title may be obvious inretrospect, and even evident if you think about it, but my mind’s immediate reaction was to picture an oil painting of a guy named Will reclining on a Tractor Fender, as painted by an artist inexplicably named Dying Farmer. Same here. > [@74westy](#): > > [ol] > [li]Find a rich guy with a tractor[/li][li]Drop tractor on him[/li][li]Write, “I leave everything to 74westy” on fender.[/li][li]Profit!!![/li][/ol] > [@Tully\_Mars](#): > > The major flaw with that plan is #1. It may be a problem finding a rich guy with a tractor. If he was rich, he isn’t after he paid for the tractor. You’re more like to find a guy on a tractor with a lot of debt. The tractor may represent a large portion of his net worth and once it rolls over, his estate will be diminished greatly. Find a rich guy who is into antique tractors. A 70-year-old Farmall can be had for as little as four grand. ---
**Author:** ![Gleena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b3f665/32.png) [@Gleena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gleena)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2013, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/65th-anniversary-of-will-on-tractor-fender-by-dying-farmer/672304/30 "2013-10-30T02:02:05Z")
Ooo…I read that in Equity! We talked about dying wishes vs wills! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/65th-anniversary-of-will-on-tractor-fender-by-dying-farmer/672304.md?page=1)