OT: No one cares any more.

John Harmon · Oct 21, 2011

Here is a copy of a painting from the 2007 John Deere Calender. The Artist is Charles Freitag and the scene is from the November 2007 page. I have an affection for old John Deere Tractors even tho I never used one when I was an active Farmer.Charles labeled this print"Out To Pasture" but I have taken Artistic License and changed the Label to "No One Cares Any More" doesn"t that bring a tear to your eye? So many of us have seen a sight such as this and so many of these old Farmers Freinds have been saved from this siuation,it really makes you feel good when at an event and looking at one of these Friends from the past and if you look close under that shiny Emron paint the scratches and dents from so many years of service show and you hang your head for a minute in silent tribute,Hello old friend,glad to see you again.?

The Dukester · Oct 21, 2011

Anybody who would leave a Spoker D out to pasture isn't a case of "No One Cares Anymore", it's a case of sheer stupidity. But Charles Freitag needs subjects to paint....even if they might be sort of odd.
It's true there has been a bunch of pretty nice stuff "Fencerowed" or "Woodlotted", in years past but a lot of it has been salvaged up and more is being cleaned up every day. It's the people who have this stuff right in sight of God and everybody and won't part with it and apparently would rather see it rust down than have anyone enjoy restoring it that "gets my goat". But people are people and not everyone has their wheels on straight.

Old Roy · Oct 21, 2011

The wonderment of the story's it could tell if it could speak as it still sets majestically in view if all its labor... If only one would listen..

Great pic Thanks .

oldtanker · Oct 21, 2011

With the number of collectors it is shame. My BIL has 2 non running 560D's over at his place. He and his dad farmed with em and the BIL was still using one about 10 years ago. Now both sit, and he will not even talk about selling one and I have offered more than once.

Rick

641Dave · Oct 21, 2011

Funny, I'm waiting on that buck to step out and get a shot off before that tractor rolls down the hill.

big fred · Oct 21, 2011

I bet it'd be real tough to make any money using equipment like that in a modern farming environment.

Suppose maybe that's why it's been put out to pasture?

Old Roy · Oct 21, 2011

But it was machines like that helped get us out of the last depression.

I don't see the new ones ever doing that in our/ their lifetime.

Kansas4010 · Oct 21, 2011

I'm afraid I disagree. If no one cares why are those D's worth so much to collectors. Very few tractors sitting in fence rows around here. People do care but only about money these days.

mkirsch · Oct 21, 2011

No wait a doggone minute here gentlemen...

Who parked these tractors? It was YOUR fathers, uncles, grandfathers, you guys who are in your 60's and 70's and 80's. Are you really going to disrespect your elders by decrying the fates of these old machines? I thought someone was crabbing about young people having no respect these days...

They parked them because at the time there was no time or money to preserve the past. They were obsolete, and worthless as trade-ins, or even scrap.

It's not a "shame." At the time it was business as usual.

Actually it's GOOD that they parked them, and they're still out there. The dealer would've scrapped them to get them off his lot, and they'd be completely gone, forever.

Anonymous-0 · Oct 21, 2011

It's only a painting. It's not reality.

Old Roy · Oct 21, 2011

You have to look at it as art.. Look real close.. Take time to realize this painting has a real story to tell and it was in the artists hand he gave his heart to try to say we.,,, (that generation) has passed.. the depiction of it being Fall means it is about to succumb to the death of winter.
We being the next generation of that era are now at that point in life.
We are about to give up what our fathers have left us to the next generation, (The young Buck stepping into the scene)

gtractorfan · Oct 21, 2011

Charles Frietag is (was) my favorite artist. Unless I'm mistaking he's passed on. We put a 1000 piece puzzle together last winter depicting filling a wood crib with ear corn and I glued it to a board with a "corncrib" frame. Hmmmm, maybe I should go take a picture.

John Harmon · Oct 21, 2011

My guess is that this is the reason the old D got retired. Another of Charles paintings for John Deere.JH

gtractorfan · Oct 21, 2011

Here's another Frietag picture (puzzle). I took a closer up of the "corncrib frame". I printed pictures of ear corn to glue under the slats.

NY 986 · Oct 21, 2011

I've always wanted to take a crack at painting some farm scenes. Hopefully I have become more patient doing things like that as I have aged. Maybe I will try something this winter.

Mark-Ia · Oct 21, 2011

Charles Frietag is alive and lives in Grundy Center Iowa.

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