Tractor Keeping Time

This came over the ballad listserve, and I had to share, knowing how much my son Aaron loves old tractors.

Tractors Keeping Time--you have to see and hear it to understand.

..and just found another: Olle and the Volvo

(YouTube--what did we do without it?)

What You Can do With a Junk Tractor

How do you turn a tractor like this...

into a tractor like this?










Simple! You just add a little bit of this--$$$ ...


and one of these--the big guy, not the little one! Although the little guy did all he could to help, including dumping oil all over the basement garage floor.













Aaron has a gift for fixing things. The tractor project took a couple years, but the result is beautiful. He's the one the whole family turns to when something needs fixed--lamp, pump, radio, car--anything with moving parts. When I saw the tractor in the beginning, I thought he was crazy. But with time and effort and a few dollars he has a wonderful antique tractor.


I should have known--after all this is the same guy who took two junk snowmobiles and instead of making one good one like he expected, he made them both run and look like new. He took an old rototiller I bought for $7 at an auction and $100 later we have a tiller we've been using for 3 years, a real horse of a machine.


Every family needs an Aaron, but not everyone is lucky enough to have one.

*Oh, it takes a really nice wife who doesn't mind if greasy tractor parts are being beat upon on her nice clean kitchen counter--that's really important too.