Living in the rural hinterlands of central Victoria, it’s not
often that I don’t see a tractor at some stage during the week. Usually they aren’t vintage and often they
are new (or newish), extremely large and hired for a short period of time only
(harvesting). There are a few classic
machines about, but nothing as nice as some of these beauties.
Just before Christmas one of my neighbours… lets call him
Dave… informed me that he was going to be purchasing a restored vintage
tractor. I live close to the centre of town,
as does Dave and his block of land is probably big enough to park a tractor,
but not big enough to drive or use a tractor. So my big question was why. Apparently it has always been a dream of his
to own and drive a tractor and when this one came up for sale he couldn’t
resist. My immediate reaction was a bit
sarcastic and I made a bit of a joke about the whole thing. Seriously, the guy works in IT (I think). It was only on further reflection on Dave’s
Tractor owning adventure, that I realised what a great thing it was that he was
taking the plunge and living the dream.
I let him know this the next time I saw him and apologised for the
sarcasm.
Unfortunately it is now 6 months later and Dave is still Tractorless. He assures me that it is still on it’s way,
albeit a little slowly. Let’s hope it’s
not hindering traffic on the Western Freeway.
In the meantime I must point out this book to him and maybe it will temporarily
quell his Tractor owning ambitions.
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