Different place and different time



"I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world"
- George Washington
Old farm tractors are fascinating to me, but this guy is obsessed.  Somewhere near Paris Texas is this collection of farm tractors mostly from the 40s and 50s.  I could have spent as much time walking around this collection in Paris, TX as an art lover might spend at the Louvre in Paris, France.


Tractors from a time of mostly small family farms.  Just imagine the stories they could tell.  Look at just one of the tractors and think about it coming off a factory assembly line in Minnesota or Wisconsin.  Then shipped to a small town farm equipment dealer by truck or train. Purchased by a farmer on a small farm and maybe driven home from town down a dusty gravel road.  


Think what one day might have been.  The farmer trying to get his land plowed and prepared for spring planting while the soil moisture is just right.  The farm wife bringing him a lunch of sandwiches on white bread.   The farmer and his wife sitting on the tailgate of the pickup truck eating their sandwiches and talking after which the farmer rolls a cigarette and relaxes a few minutes before getting back on the tractor for the remainder of the day.


The things these old rusty tractors have seen and heard..........


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