Parts tractors
Between an afternoon barbeque and dinner with a friend, I took a spin through a part of North Adams I don’t know well. I passed a line of rusting tractors on Daniels Road, in the shadow of the Hairpin Turn that leads route 2 east, out of town.
I turned my truck around, pulled over and started snapping pictures of the ancient machines. Fifty yards away, a man fixing a dump truck hollered, “Taking pictures of the tractors?”
“Yep. They yours?”
“My dad’s. Knock yourself out. They go all the way to the edge of the field.”
“They’re beautiful.”
“They’re just parts tractors.”
August 13th, 2007 at 10:05 pm
Those are beautiful. Nice find.
August 13th, 2007 at 10:37 pm
Wow — nicely spotted.
I want them to take all the parts from the whole set of tractors and make one enormous, rusty ubertractor.
August 14th, 2007 at 12:29 am
Did you know that porshce made tractors? Here’s one I have spotted near a restaurant in Israel
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hanan_cohen/30641107/
August 14th, 2007 at 2:56 pm
If you’re in the vicinity of Saskatoon, the Western Development Museum has a terrific display of tractors, many of them steam, and some of those the big, prairie machines that rivaled switch engines in size.