Today I’m showing you this picture just because I Ike it. This tractor is the one they use for hay rides at Walker Farms in the fall. I saw it while exploring their sunflower field this week.
Don’t let the great patina fool you. This vintage Ford tractor has been around the field plenty of times and still has a lot of life in it. It’s not like so many modern machines that start to fail in a few short years.
It’ll probably outlast us all!
This is your gentle reminder that age is just a number and also that Labor Day weekend is great time to go adventuring!
Let us celebrate and explore!
I love old Tractors – great fun to drive. If it doesn’t run now it probably wouldn’t take that much to get it going. Old machines never die, they just have a rest now and then.
This one’s still alive and kicking and will likely outlive both of us!
Very true!
Love it! Great picture of a vintage machine. I ran across an old GMC last year, just sitting in a field by the highway… waiting for someone to buy it and restore it.
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Here’s my post/pics if interested, Brandi: https://demaras.com/2024/06/30/somebody-needs-to-save-this-gmc/
Oh my. She deserves better. What a fun project that could be for the right person!
Life is better on the tractor!
That is a very nicely framed portrait of a much-loved old friend to the farmer. It’s true that age is only a number. Let’s measure our age in miles of adventure and number of smiles!
Thank you! It’s a beautiful subject, if you ask me. Measuring miles and smiles sounds pretty good to me!
Great photo! This is either a Ford 2N (1942-47) or 8N (1947-52) – I’m not sure which. These were (and still are) fabulously durable.
Thank you!!
I’m guessing it will outlive us both.