March 18, 2013 2:02 PM
No farm, small or large, can function without at least one tractor. They are the most functional of objects, bright and shiny for a very short time when they’re new and then old and rusty after a few seasons in harsh weather. A tractor will be used for as long as possible, until the farmer can’t patch it together any longer, and then it gets put out to pasture.
No farm, small or large, can function without at least one tractor. They are the most functional of objects, bright and shiny for a very short time when they’re new and then old and rusty after a few seasons in harsh weather. A tractor will be used for as long as possible, until the farmer can’t patch it together any longer, and then it gets put out to pasture. But there, set against a stormy sky in Michigan, or a wheat field in Washington, they become items of beauty (just like barns can), contrasting with the landscape and adding a touch of permanence to an ever changing land.
Night Tractor by Michael Kitchen
Days Gone By by Summer Owens
Resting Rusty by Arlene Carley
Days gone by by Brenda Hartman
Baling At Berry Farm, Scalloway, Shetland by Anne Macdonald
Decline of the Small Farm No.2 by Randy Nyhof
Kansas Tractor & Baler at Sunset by Janel Haumont
Before Video Games–Boys Playing with Retro 50′s Toy Tractors by Eric Bjerke, Sr.
Somewhere Oklahoma by Plusten Photography
Vintage Massey Ferguson Tractors by Richard Nixon
Harvesting oats, southeastern Georgia? by Marion Post Wolcott
Farm Tractor and Sunset by Vicki France
Wheel With a Story by Maureen Kirk-Detberner
Harrowing a field with a diesel tractor, Seabrook Farm, Bridgeton, N.J. by John Collier
John Deere by Ally Smith
Abandoned Farm Tractor on the Prairie by Randy Nyhof