The old traction engines are still around. Back when these things became obsolete they were worthless junk and nobody gave a second thought to "preserving our heritage."
Heck, we even had two good old fashioned "the side the hurls the most iron at the enemy wins" wars between then and now.
Now we're a nation of PACK RATS, on a quest to preserve EVERYTHING.
Somehow I don't think the old tractors will ever completely go away. There may not be tens of thousands of them out there but there will always be some.
Regardless, we've got books and pictures and websites and all sorts of records that these machines existed. Even if they all go away the memory will be preserved, and isn't that what's really important?
I've said this many many times; if we hung on to everything ever made, we would literally be up to our EYEBALLS in junk, and it would all just be sitting around rusting away for no good reason.
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Today's Featured Article - The Day Mom Drove the 8N - by Brian Browning. My Dad was wanting to put in a garden but couldn't operate the 8N and handle the old horse drawn plow he had found and rigged up to use with the tractor. Well, he decided to go get Mom out of the house and have her drive the tractor while he walked behind the plow. You got to understand that while my Mom is a hard worker who will always help whenever she can... she had never operated farm machinery before that day. Dad got her out there, explained how the clutch was the same as in our o
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