tractors

[Daniel Kalal]

Photos of opportunity.  There needs to be a place to pull over (because as often as not, there's a ditch along the road) and the tractor needs to be in the right place in the field.  They're never dramatic shots, but somehow tractors going back and forth, back and forth are calming.

Kansas


Kansas


Minnesota


Nebraska


India

 
Italy

 
Kansas

 
California

 
Queensland


Alabama

[Bill Hagan]

**** somehow tractors going back and forth, back and forth are calming.

Yes!

Thanks (as always), Daniel.

Bill

[acogoff]

     If you had to try to make a living at it you may change your mind. As one who does, all I can say is farming looks way way better from the road than it does from the tractor cab.

[Gliderjohn]

The shot from India sure confirms it is not all one world. A lot of money rolling in those Kansas and Nebraska fields.
GliderJohn

[Bill Hagan]

     If you had to try to make a living at it you may change your mind. As one who does, all I can say is farming looks way way better from the road than it does from the tractor cab.

I think most of us understand that the reality of any such bucolic scene isn't as "calming" for those IN the picture as for those of us observing it!

Thank you for what you do for us all, btw, from someone who grew up on a farm and who every day eats something grown or raised there. 

Bill

[cj750]

Back when I was the guy going back and forth (sometimes around and around) in the tractor, I experienced an almost overpowering sense of envy whenever I saw someone going by on a motorcycle.

[acogoff]

I think most of us understand that the reality of any such bucolic scene isn't as "calming" for those IN the picture as for those of us observing it!

Thank you for what you do for us all, btw, from someone who grew up on a farm and who every day eats something grown or raised there. 

Bill

Thank you Bill
           I have a feeling, though, that a lot of the younger generation think there food comes from a store. BTW, I would not want to trade places with the guy with the oxen.

[LowRyter]

    If you had to try to make a living at it you may change your mind. As one who does, all I can say is farming looks way way better from the road than it does from the tractor cab.

cab?  You gotta plow wheat fields all Okla summer long on a seat in the open air- just as God intended.  The heat and wind aren't so bad but the mind numbing 10 hour day following a furrow is a different story.  Then you hook an abandoned oilfield pipeline with the plow and you're looking at the sky.

[Triple Jim]

Great photos as usual, thanks.  You sometimes see some old ones around here.  I'm hoping to see a John Deere R or similar in person someday.  415.5 cubic inches in two diesel cylinders.  That's 3,400cc per cylinder.  My neighbor has a John Deere 40, which is a smaller tractor with a 2 cylinder gasoline engine.

John Deere R:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPLZGDoUKsE

[oldbike54]

 Having spent time behind a team of donkeys , let 's just say tractors don't have a mind of their own  :D Like CJ said , from the seat of a tractor or combine , motorcycles look danged inviting  :bike

  Dusty

[charlie b]

Any of you have bad necks/backs from being twisted looking backwards most of the day/night?  Dad was bad that way and he only drove during summer nights (Hay harvesting in phoenix area).  He was a teacher and to make ends meet during the summer he worked farms.

One night he came home really bad cause the seat on the tractor would not pivot.

[Triple Jim]

Having spent time behind a team of donkeys , let 's just say tractors don't have a mind of their own  :D

Wow, I've seen mules doing farm pulling, but never donkeys.  I can only imagine the trouble you must have had.

[MotoGoosy]

Worked farms as a teen back in Kansas.  Drove a Minneapolis Moline butane (?) tractor, and opened the valve on the back of the tank that faced the seat to cool myself off.

[oldbike54]

Wow, I've seen mules doing farm pulling, but never donkeys.  I can only imagine the trouble you must have had.

 Actually these two girls were smart and relatively docile ,although they had different personalities , Maude was the alpha , Myrtle was happy to let her lead . Maude was trained as the furrow donkey , and would plow a nice straight line W/O much guidance , even stopping at the end to allow a nice turnaround .
However , if hooked up back wards , they would simply refuse to move , giving baleful stares and acting unhappy . Of course , these girls were more pets than working animals , spending  most of their time simply visiting with the cows (also more pet than livestock) on my Mom's little farm . There was an incident involving Maude and a pickup grill and radiator , the owner was warned not to honk at the girls so they would move , drive around them . Instead , the guy decided to
ignore that advice and paid the price  :D Myrtle was observed laughing about the event  ;D

  Dusty

[lucian]

Nice shots. Do those tractors have moto guzzi power? Or is it just the ditch pumps?

[Guzzistajohn]

I've spent some time in the cotton patch in a tractor in Oklahomie drinking beer with a buddy. It's not exactly bending the fun meter. Also moved round bales on an old Case up in Iowa for my uncle. Long day for sure.

[john fish]

Virginia



West Virginia



 :D  No eye like Daniel's, of course, but am fascinated by old tractors.

[LowRyter]

Damn.  I wish IH had built a motorcycle.  They could call it a "Scout". 

Get 'em up Scout!

[Gliderjohn]

Quote from LowRider:

Damn.  I wish IH had built a motorcycle.

Back when I was a kid I spent quite a few hours on this. Still have it and use it.

GliderJohn