You raise some interesting points. As the population has moved from mostly rural to mostly urban/suburban many folks whose family farmed at one time are now one or two generations removed from the farm. Some now choose to move back to "the country" and hobby farm and they seem to want the new models with the FEL, mower, blade, etc package deal. While classic tractors can still do pretty much all that needs to be done on small acreage, these folks often don't have the mechanical ability, tools and most importantly the interest to restore and maintain the old ones. That leaves those interested in saving the history of farming. That is a small market indeed. The club I am in has a number of young members but we haven't had anyone take us up on our program to provide financial support to a young person working on an ag mechanics project at school for the past 2 years. I did not look to make money on any of mine and do use one for work but it is sad to see the hobby aspect of maintaining and restoring old iron fading.
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Today's Featured Article - Haying Before Tractors - by Owen Clark. Hi guys! At age 8 (1927, am now 79) I was learning how to drive a stacker team on the old homemade A-frame wooden stacker, on three of my uncles` dairy farms in Star Valley Wyoming (south of Jackson Hole, on the Wyoming-Idaho border). There was one steam tractor in the Valley, owned by an entrepeneur who used it to run his grain threshing machine, that he hauled from farm to farm for the fall harvest. We used teams of horses not only on the stacker, but on the buckrake to buck the dried
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