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Blake Shelton has this new song "God's Country", and while not a bad song, I heard on the radio that in the video he sets a tractor on fire. I made the mistake of checking it out and it made me sick. An antique Oliver of all the things. I don't know what model it was but I sure hope it was bound for the scrap yard, but unfortunantly it looked to be in good shape before they lit it aflame.

Here's the video link, though I caution watching it if you're sensitive to that kind of thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNarAFhOw1I

Such a waste. I'll never be supporting his music anymore.
 
I like the song and most of his music. I guess it doesn t bother me if he wants to burn a tractor. It would bother me if he wanted to burn the flag.
 
Usually not so negative in my comments but the song and video are both horrible. They really suck. Nothing ties the burning tractor to the theme of the song or any of its lyrics. Sometimes with special effects they can "trick" the camera, but this actually looked like a tractor burning. What a waste.

But I'm obviously in the minority--the many ppl who left comments absolutely loved everything about it.
 
There are a lot of stupid things done now and video taped, and many think it's acceptable, I think it's deplorable! I have
never before seen so many people so proud of how stupid they are!
 
Haven't really been a big fan of Shelton. I think he has went over the line with this video considering a huge
portion of his listeners are country folks and farmers. Not sure why you would want to go to this extreme in a
video when it could easily be taken offensive by some of your fans. I myself am an even less of a fan than before,
after veiwing this video.

I think sitting in the big hot shot seat on The Voice has went to his head. I think he has a way bigger ego than
what he should have as an entertainer.
 
(quoted from post at 09:36:05 05/24/19) There are a lot of stupid things done now and video taped, and many think it's acceptable, I think it's deplorable! I have
never before seen so many people so proud of how stupid they are!

Well put.
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It's an Oliver 1250:

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Looks like it might have been a non-working machine, but also looks like it wouldn't take much to get it going. Good tin, tires, lots of other components that are probably OK. What a waste.
 
modern country makes my ears bleed .

If it was an Oliver it appeared as though it could have been a 1250 , no real loss other
than to the environment with the extra added carbon.

not to worry, in a hundred years there'll still be tractors that no one wants or has a use
for and there will still be music that someone doesn't like.
 
What a stupid waste!

The last episode of Home Improvement I ever watched was when they dropped the I beam on a Nomad.

Why destroy irreplaceable history in an unsuccessful attempt to create entertainment?
 
Not sure if I heard the song ? likely have. I have not seen that video. With today's special effects it is possible that "no tractor was harmed during filming"
IIRC that is a Fiat like the AC 5040 and if so no great loss. They were not that good of a machine.
 
Miranda had some kerosene left from her earlier album titled "Kerosene" She dot it, when getting the he!!
out of Oklahoma.
If you are not a country fan, you probably won't understand my comments.-----Loren
 
If it was a real fire and a real Oliver it would be sad--but it was just a Fiat with a boat ride-0$ loss---Tee
 
Entertainers have been doing shocking things for decades. Look at how many guitars they smash on stage. I'm sure burning the tractor appealed to the masses.
 
I'd guess that the fire, the tractor, and the tractor-on-fire were all real.

It amazes me how wasteful we are. Some months back, someone was posting how they had gotten some flooring from a house that was being torn down. Can't remember if it was the same house, but around that time there was another post of a really beautiful, spacious home next to some body of water. Nothing wrong with the house. But rather than have the house moved, it was demolished to make way for an even more massive mansion. For what it cost to demolish, they could have spent just a little more money, had it moved, "donated" it to some family in need, then written the whole cost off their taxes. But that was too much effort, I guess. Was too easy to send it to the dump.

Lots of people find perfectly good stuff in the trash or on the curb; sometimes brand new stuff still with price tag!! But, that's the mindset of the nation we live in.

Blake Shelton probably had that tractor donated, or found it on a piece of land he owned. Maybe some adoring fan gave it to him to use (...like Blake has any trouble finding money). *lol* In the end, he gains his god-like status with adoring fans screaming that this song/video puts him #1, and his bank account gets a huge new bloat to it. ...No need to pay dancers or people to star in the video. Nope, just set an old tractor on fire and watch the money come rolling in.
 
Well, can't say I like burning
a tractor either but looked
not too good to me. Also I
wonder how they could get away
with intentionally creating a
hazardous waste like that,
would suspect some
environmentalists would
disaprove. But in the end I
think it's fake because in the
beginning the first rear tire
to burn is the right one, but
in the last few seconds that
one is unharmed while the
other is burning. So my guess
is it's all photo shopped.
 
Was that the big mansion a couple years ago east of the Twin Cities I think, on a river bluff?

Was sad to see that deal knocked down, I hate waste too. Don?t understand such thinking.

Tv shows wreck dozens of cars in a week, and demo derbies also wreck them and I enjoy tv and demo derbies, so shouldn?t complain about one tractor. But it still sticks
out.

I have a hard time with combine demo derbies, I have seen 2, and I found myself looking for parts I could use rather than enjoying the demo part.......

Paul
 
Tim Allen actually got so much mail about that so had to go on air and show it was just a shell of a car form a junk yard not the one he used on the show. If you watch closely the Brady panels are not exactly the same color.
 
Which is better--having them rust to nothing in some fence row and finally go to the scrapper or go out in a blaze of glory?---Tee

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2 of 3 we ran
 
I was at a sale one time where there was a scrap guy buying up all the john deere there and some were running tractors. I ask him wow you are sure starting a collettion of john deere today and he told me that no I scrap out every john deere I can because one less john deer on earth is a better earth.???
 
Good grief, somebody burnt a tractor ON PURPOSE!!!
:shock:
Omg the world as we know it must be about to end!

So doesn't that one burning and going to the scrapper make all of the remaining samples more valuable?
 
(quoted from post at 12:47:57 05/24/19) Good grief, somebody burnt a tractor ON PURPOSE!!!
:shock:
Omg the world as we know it must be about to end!

So doesn't that one burning and going to the scrapper make all of the remaining samples more valuable?
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Dang you Double07, now you went and figured a way to make this a [i:cacb8e3dd7]good[/i:cacb8e3dd7] thing. *ROFL*
 
I never liked anyone who smashed guitars back when that was the hot thing to do, and I don't think this tractor burning is any different. Same for demolishing perfectly
good buildings just because you want a different one. What happened to building and making things to last and keeping them in good condition and being proud of having it?
 
Should have added in my opinion most of this new country isn't country so I don't listen to it much anymore. Got the real stuff on CD.
 
Looks to me like it was faked. All that flame from the tires yet no blistering paint. I've come across a burning car on two occasions. Not nearly as spectacular as in movies or TV. Really pretty boring.
 
I have to disagree with you on that point. Todays country is just as much about rural life as it has always been. They still sing about guy--girl relationships, hunting and fishing, harvesting crops, and bonfires out in the back forty. One difference is the old horse got replaced by a jacked up pickup trucks, and life styles have changed a bit.
There are a great number of new country artists out there and they are making lots of really great traditional music with a modern twist, especially the gals.
The song in focus here is a tribute to the straggles of past homesteaders and I believe the burning tractor is symbolic of the fate of today's family farm
Think about it and draw your own conclusions-------Loren
 
(quoted from post at 13:41:22 05/24/19)
It had to have been photoshopped. There is no one in the world that would burn an Oliver.
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Yes there is! I'd get started on them right after I finished burning all the AC's.

Rick
 
Hasn't been any good hillbilly music since The most of this last generation got in to it. Really though Bob Wills Ernest Tubb and those were the last of the best.
As for burning a tractor have not seen the video so can't say. Though what a waste of good parts and money. It has come by in to hard of a way to burn equipment like that.
 
I think most of you are not seeing the symbolism in that video. To me, it starts out showing the struggles
and hardships that the Homesteader's/Sodbusters endured back in the day. From there it moves forward to more
modern day, and the early 80's vintage burning tractor depicts the plight of today's small family farms.
That is my take on it. Yours may vary.
Loren
 
Well, burning up a tractor might seem like a sacrilege to the YT crowd but in the scheme of things wasteful on the planet,
it's a pi$$ drop in the ocean. Hopefully, none of us lose any sleep over it, life goes on burnt tractor or not, real or fake
video or not.
 
I've never been a Chevy guy but that made me sit up and go "WHOA" But after seeing it more times I decided it wasn't a real Nomad.just a real quick view!!!
 
listening to what is supposedly "Country Music" these days is pretty lame- its about where top 40 Rock was 3 decades ago.

I guess I'm more of a traditionalist- Johnny & June, Patsy, Kitty, Marty, Hank Sr., Bob Wills, Cowboy Copas, Tex and Johnny Horton.

I Can't wait to see that multi-part Ken Burns documentary on the history of country music on PBS this fall!
 

Did you wear your tutu to the last derby you were at?---Tee
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Sorry--this is the latest chart I could find!
 
(quoted from post at 15:32:23 05/24/19) I think most of you are not seeing the symbolism in that video. To me, it starts out showing the struggles
and hardships that the Homesteader's/Sodbusters endured back in the day. From there it moves forward to more
modern day, and the early 80's vintage burning tractor depicts the plight of today's small family farms.
That is my take on it. Yours may vary.
Loren
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Nice interpretation, but the message got a little muddy for me.
Mainly the words got in the way. Too many borrowed phrases, too little originality. "God s Country," is something a much older person would say when I was a kid and told of going to a special place to adventure or hike out in the wild. And they would say it reverentially, not hammer it to death. It s rare they would say it at all. Probably could have put on his thinking cap and come up with something more original. He also quoted "Devil went down to Georgia." Yes, songwriters do quote each other, especially common in jazz, where they ll play a few bars of another tuneusually in a humorous nod to another well-known song.
Instead of a one-time quote, Shelton slathered the phrase all over the song like a borrowed jar of peanut butter. Again, looking for a little more originality here. "The devil went down to Georgia but he didn t stick around." Has a nice ring to it, but I don t see how it adds to the overall message. On a more positive note, the song had a good, driving beat, and the words were sung with conviction. I ll limit my comments to this song, and won t say what I think of current country music in general since I ll just get myself all worked up and we don t want that.

And I ll add that I didn t know who Blake Shelton was before this video. I may have heard the name, can t say one way or the other.

Gerrit
 
Anyone that has ever lost a tractor in a fire knows how sad it really is no matter what brand it may be. I lost a great
old Case tractor in a shop fire myself not too long ago. It is a memory and feeling you will never forget. I don?t
understand the intentional burning in this video. Just is sad to see for me. Kow Farmer Kurt
 
(quoted from post at 09:13:10 05/24/19) Blake Shelton has this new song "God's Country", and while not a bad song, I heard on the radio that in the video he sets a tractor on fire. I made the mistake of checking it out and it made me sick. An antique Oliver of all the things. I don't know what model it was but I sure hope it was bound for the scrap yard, but unfortunantly it looked to be in good shape before they lit it aflame.

Here's the video link, though I caution watching it if you're sensitive to that kind of thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNarAFhOw1I

Such a waste. I'll never be supporting his music anymore.
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I feel the same every time I see a muscle car destroyed, like the movie Jack reacher (chevelle) or fasting and furious/dukes of hazard (chargers). I hate to see such iconic cars destroyed.
 
(quoted from post at 11:13:10 05/24/19) Blake Shelton has this new song "God's Country", and while not a bad song, I heard on the radio that in the video he sets a tractor on fire. I made the mistake of checking it out and it made me sick. An antique Oliver of all the things. I don't know what model it was but I sure hope it was bound for the scrap yard, but unfortunantly it looked to be in good shape before they lit it aflame.

Here's the video link, though I caution watching it if you're sensitive to that kind of thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNarAFhOw1I

Such a waste. I'll never be supporting his music anymore.
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HMMM, an "Oilallover" going out in a moment of fame/blaze of glory seems to me to be more fitting than what happened to the once proud "Oliver" company when it's fate was left up to corporate raiders. Didn't work out very well!
 
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