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Many of you will have read my thread about the Raider I had stolen, I'm very pleased to say that yesterday she was returned to the site she disappeared from. Just last week I decided I would have to replace her as I do rely on her for many jobs through the year, not least to save me many hours mowing my allotment and other peoples grass. I ended up being offered a C121 at a price I could afford and made the decision to spend the money I had put aside for the reward I was offering on my missing tractor. Here is the Raider happily returned home alongside her new stable mate.


I first became fond of Wheel horses in 1995 when I took a pocket money job at a small country estate, there there was a C141 that the boss had purchased in 1978, the year of my birth. This in fact was the first vehicle I had driven and I soon learned to reverse a trailer with it too. I'm now in charge of estate maintenance at that estate and I still run the C141 pretty much every day, whatever is required of it it manages, from raking driveways to scarifying to aerating lawns to hauling mowers around the grounds on a trailer to hauling many tonnes of wood from the woodland to the yard. She is very well worked and the engine shows wear in the bore and notably where the governor spindle exits the crankcase, you can wobble this about like a knitting needle in a bucket! Over the years it has been suggested several times that she be replaced but I won't have it and if she ever has failed myself or my Dad (sadly no longer with us) will spend a little time in the shed rectifying the problem and off she goes to work again. A few years back after realising our modern Kubota didn't like cutting the long grass areas I used two scrap tractors I sourced to build one good one and this is now used solely for long grass cutting and sports a sixteen horse engine. Here are my two flanked by the ever trusty C141 and the 16BHP mongrel. The wood you see behind them plus many hundreds more tonnes have all been hauled here from the woodland by the little C141

A massive thank you to everybody that paid attention to my posts about the theft of our little tractor and kept eyes open for her. After over three
months the tractor is now back at home and we have two happy children and a very smiley me. I had a phone call from the Police today to say
my horse had been returned to the house she was last spotted at. Strangely it was found by the same man that had last been seen moving it
onto the driveway! He "apparently" found it dumped in a place I had searched previously, a local park. Anyhow I'm just overjoyed to have her
home and I wish to express my thanks for all the kind words and thoughts that have been sent my way.

They could of at least gave her a fresh coat of red paint, hopefully they filled her with petrol. Glad she is back home being taken care of properly.

Good result

Great result, nice one  

Smashing

Well done mate, a good and happy result

That's great news.

Hi glad you got it back  i hope its all ok 
cheers nick

that's great news, hope you have fun on her!

A massive thank you to everybody that paid attention to my posts about the theft of our little tractor and kept eyes open for her. After over three
months the tractor is now back at home and we have two happy children and a very smiley me. I had a phone call from the Police today to say
my horse had been returned to the house she was last spotted at. Strangely it was found by the same man that had last been seen moving it
onto the driveway! He "apparently" found it dumped in a place I had searched previously, a local park. Anyhow I'm just overjoyed to have her
home and I wish to express my thanks for all the kind words and thoughts that have been sent my way.

A massive thank you to everybody that paid attention to my posts about the theft of our little tractor and kept eyes open for her. After over three
months the tractor is now back at home and we have two happy children and a very smiley me. I had a phone call from the Police today to say
my horse had been returned to the house she was last spotted at. Strangely it was found by the same man that had last been seen moving it
onto the driveway! He "apparently" found it dumped in a place I had searched previously, a local park. Anyhow I'm just overjoyed to have her
home and I wish to express my thanks for all the kind words and thoughts that have been sent my way.

A massive thank you to everybody that paid attention to my posts about the theft of our little tractor and kept eyes open for her. After over three
months the tractor is now back at home and we have two happy children and a very smiley me. I had a phone call from the Police today to say
my horse had been returned to the house she was last spotted at. Strangely it was found by the same man that had last been seen moving it
onto the driveway! He "apparently" found it dumped in a place I had searched previously, a local park. Anyhow I'm just overjoyed to have her
home and I wish to express my thanks for all the kind words and thoughts that have been sent my way.

A massive thank you to everybody that paid attention to my posts about the theft of our little tractor and kept eyes open for her. After over three
months the tractor is now back at home and we have two happy children and a very smiley me. I had a phone call from the Police today to say
my horse had been returned to the house she was last spotted at. Strangely it was found by the same man that had last been seen moving it
onto the driveway! He "apparently" found it dumped in a place I had searched previously, a local park. Anyhow I'm just overjoyed to have her
home and I wish to express my thanks for all the kind words and thoughts that have been sent my way.

A massive thank you to everybody that paid attention to my posts about the theft of our little tractor and kept eyes open for her. After over three
months the tractor is now back at home and we have two happy children and a very smiley me. I had a phone call from the Police today to say
my horse had been returned to the house she was last spotted at. Strangely it was found by the same man that had last been seen moving it
onto the driveway! He "apparently" found it dumped in a place I had searched previously, a local park. Anyhow I'm just overjoyed to have her
home and I wish to express my thanks for all the kind words and thoughts that have been sent my way.

A massive thank you to everybody that paid attention to my posts about the theft of our little tractor and kept eyes open for her. After over three
months the tractor is now back at home and we have two happy children and a very smiley me. I had a phone call from the Police today to say
my horse had been returned to the house she was last spotted at. Strangely it was found by the same man that had last been seen moving it
onto the driveway! He "apparently" found it dumped in a place I had searched previously, a local park. Anyhow I'm just overjoyed to have her
home and I wish to express my thanks for all the kind words and thoughts that have been sent my way.

A massive thank you to everybody that paid attention to my posts about the theft of our little tractor and kept eyes open for her. After over three
months the tractor is now back at home and we have two happy children and a very smiley me. I had a phone call from the Police today to say
my horse had been returned to the house she was last spotted at. Strangely it was found by the same man that had last been seen moving it
onto the driveway! He "apparently" found it dumped in a place I had searched previously, a local park. Anyhow I'm just overjoyed to have her
home and I wish to express my thanks for all the kind words and thoughts that have been sent my way.

I have now managed to save for a cash reward to anybody that can provide information that leads to the safe return of our beloved tractor, my Mum and Sister have also told me they will add to this reward. Please if you can help, do.

I have now managed to save for a cash reward to anybody that can provide information that leads to the safe return of our beloved tractor, my Mum and Sister have also told me they will add to this reward. Please if you can help, do.

Thanks everyone for the comments and giving this attention, especially to Headexam for sharing it here before I was able too (I wasn't a member). Sadly the 'oss is still missing despite my searching and asking, the children have even turned into superheroes of late and been using their powers in the search! I have become quite obsessed with this and even taken holiday from work to try and track her down but at present seem to have hit a wall, I'm very disappointed with the Police for leaving her there where she was first dumped, besides anything else it was a school route and if any of the children had started her it could have ended in a very messy way. 
Please keep vigilant, I can name several distinguishing marks besides the obvious.

Thanks everyone for the comments and giving this attention, especially to Headexam for sharing it here before I was able too (I wasn't a member). Sadly the 'oss is still missing despite my searching and asking, the children have even turned into superheroes of late and been using their powers in the search! I have become quite obsessed with this and even taken holiday from work to try and track her down but at present seem to have hit a wall, I'm very disappointed with the Police for leaving her there where she was first dumped, besides anything else it was a school route and if any of the children had started her it could have ended in a very messy way. 
Please keep vigilant, I can name several distinguishing marks besides the obvious.