Saturday 12 March 2011

A tractor to remember history.....


This is the first tractor that was bought by the family on our farm .It arrived during the 2nd world war.IT was at York station the night York was bombed but miraculously was not damaged.I can just remember as a child my dad working the fields with it.The seat had no suspension as such -you just bounced up and down. Many hours were spent climbing over it when I was young. No health and safety in those days. Here you see it,I suppose quite a collectors item now but it was retired many years ago. Machinery is getting a lot bigger and more complicated now but we are still as we were then, very dependant on the weather.There are some things we cant change as with what is happening in the world today With tragedies in New Zealand and more recently in Japan we think of all those that have been affected in these disasters.