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 Posted: Sun Jul 20th, 2008 11:26 am
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Ablejack



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 I love this hobby of yours. Tractors are cool as hell. I even have had some coffee table books on the subject. Beautiful American ingenuity. Everything about a tractor simply makes mechanical sense and as a whole makes historic and aesthetic sense. Much like watches but on a different scale.

As a child camping in NW Pa. my father would send me and sibs a couple of miles from our cabin to "work the Bell farm". The dairy farmer Cal Bell, a friend of my father's, probably didn't get too much work out of us, we would shovel manure, pitch hay, help with milking and watch bug-eyed as cows were inseminated. I was able to ride along but I never operated a tractor. More it was a semi-annual break in his routine and a life lesson for us "city kids". At the end of our work day (for us, I don't know if Farmer Bell had an end to his work day) there would be a couple of half broken, unsaddled horses for us to ride. I'm a bit surprised we survived all that fun.

I should also mention Mrs. Bell would have breakfast prepared for us after the morning work. Those meals prepared from the Bell Farm dairy as well as locally made bacon and harvested eggs are imprinted in my memory. Perhaps more idealized than actual.

Last edited on Sun Jul 20th, 2008 11:28 am by Ablejack