Tractors at Tractor Supply

I felt privledged to be able to park my Farmall Reg and my McCormick 15-30 at the front door entrance.Our Tractor supply has a small tractor show and animal auction each year and the 4-H group sells food and drinks.I also had my F12 and John Deere BN there.There was some intrest but seemed most people were in a hurry,The'll slow down one of these days

jimmy

The newer generations aren't interested in machinery anymore. Got their minds on cell phones and computers and new cars. My boss has three grown kids in their twenties, they don't even know what a tractor is even tho they were raised on a small farm.

Casting your pearls before swine as the old saying goes.

Last October, on a 2-day weekend, our community of Reedsburg (pop 9500) had an "Art Tour" thru the city and rural countryside, showing paintings, barn quilts, roadside fruit & vegetable stands, old cars and tractors parked on lawns, etc. I was asked to have some tractors at a cheese stand for an added attraction. There were a lot of cars slowly going by....many people stopped in to buy cheese and some people walked over to see the tractors. The tractors were rejuvinated Farmalls and Olivers from the 1950 era.

I stuck around most of those two days to kind of watch for anyone who had questions, or aid kids climbing on the tractors, and I passed the time by eating cheese, sitting in a lawn chair and listening to the Packer game.

I had two men, in their 30s or 40s, at separate times come up to me, point at the tractors, and ask "What are those machines?". They were from Madison, Wi, and they honestly did not know what a tractor was or what it was built to do.

And this in a dairy state with farms and tractors everywhere. No wonder they think food originates at a super market!

LA in WI

Nice!

BTW,THOSE are the first REAL tractors that have been at TSC in many decades! (Darn MTD "Yard junk" they sell now!!!!!!)

I drove a friend's Allis WC to the state fairgrounds last fall when they had the local county fair. We got free tickets to the barbeque for showing a few old tractors there, but surprisingly, not many people came by to look at them. At the State fair there is always a crowd to see them, but then there are a lot more people at the state fair.
Wish our local TSC would do that... I'd be there to see them. Maybe I'll suggest that to them next time I'm there to buy bird seed.

Is it that they really truly didn't know what a tractor was, or that this was their idea of a tractor:



If something like this is all you've ever seen, then it's not a stretch to imagine that some archaic contraption on steel wheels looks more like a torture device than a tractor.

I took no offense to what any one else has said, and I hope no one takes any to my opinions, but I would like to share my thoughts.

Yes the majority of the newer generation (mine) have their eyes glued to cell phones, computers, etc.

BUT I'm 20, use both my cell phone and computer to view this site. With the exception of email, this site is also the closest to social media I use. And if I'm on this site, it makes sense that I do know some about tractors, though I'm still learning.

You know what gets me though, is all that ever shows up at shows like that here in Az (AzEDGETA included) are the tractors. Next to no: cultivators, cotton pickers, planters, mowers, other equipment. If you ask me, more effort should be taken by the older generation, who has the time, MONEY, and EXPERIENCE to save and show some of the more complex items used with the tractors should, as in my opinion that has more power to capture attention than just an old tractor.

No offense to Mr. Williams, but I probably would walk past his Regular with out much thought, as it is a tractor with none of the associated equipment that made the Regular such an popular tractor. Now the 15-30 is a little less common in my experiences, so I might pay it more attention, but again, if I had to chose, due to trailer space, between hauling two tractors, or one tractor with some equipment once used with it, I'd go with the latter every time.

One problem with equipment is that most of it is long gone. It was not nearly as robust as the tractors that pulled it, and when it became obsolete it either got parked out by the fencerow where it rotted away, or it got scrapped.

People didn't have the same sense of preservation 50 years ago as they do now. In some respects we've gone way overboard, and if we don't find a happy medium, we will eventually be buried up to our eyeballs in our own junk.

Another major problem with equipment is that much of it is difficult to transport more than a few miles. DOT says 102" is maximum without expensive special permits. Even an old 1950's pull-type combine is overwidth. Balers, rakes, mowers, forage harvesters... mostly overwidth, and quite a few are overheight.

Then when you get to the show, what do you need to move the equipment? A tractor, of course! Ever tried to back a

Tractors are popular because they can move themselves, are relatively easy to transport

Most of the younger generation don't even know what a tractor is I am apart of the younger generation and.it makes me mad all they do is text and take pictures and post on social sites!!! I am not some much on that although I do take pictures of tractors and put then on the computer for reference!

last time i was in wisconsin most of the pasture land was covered with expensive houses not cows.most cheese nowdays comes from idaho and california.

David
I"m working on three plows and a abundant progressive propodanda machine or manure spreader. I had my little genius at the Glendale show this year, hopefully I"ll have my fast hitch 2-16 and 3-14 two way plows ready for next
Tracy

Rick in Iowa,
I am a native of Iowa, but I have been accepted over here in WI as a regular and normal person, even though it took 40 years!
Cows don"t roam pastures like they once did, dairying has come to be like the huge hog and chicken confinement setups (too bad).
This state did lose it"s ranking in milk production to California"s huge diaries. But the top producing cheese state is still Wisconsin. So watch what you say about cheese....after all, we are called "cheeseheads" by Da Bear fans...they can"t stand the success of a certain team from Green Bay!!!
LA in WI

i will agree that the younger generations are pretty clueless and dont pay attention to anything. I am 35 and grew up in Des Mines, so im a 'city kid' but both parents grew up on farms and i bought the one my mom grew up on and have lots of 'junk' out here now.


I had a bonfire party a few years ago for all my motorcycle friends i know and we had about 30 or so people out here, and most evryone of them lives in Des MOines or the surrounding suburbs. I had a few wander into the shed and then yell at me through the door to show them the tractors. to my amazement just about every person there was actually wanting to know about them. I had one girl who is 'high end' and she even asked to drive one around. They actually had a blast with the old stuff.

I think some of it has to do with the setting of the situation. do i think if i took the trcators to town they would have all been so interested? probably not. but since they were out of their 'bubble' they were able to see other things around them


The Tractor supply here is actually in the middle of town and pretty much cater to the yuppie scum horse people that are around. I can find more 'farming' supplies at Lowes than i can at TSC :?

Alot of shows and parades dont want equipment, just tractors. At one time I had fully restored plows or cultivators for each of my show tractors. However, other than the local plowing bee, none of the shows or parades I attend would allow implements. I fought that for years with no luck, so eventually sold off most of the equipment.

on april 20 2013 from about 8 to 4 or when ever you can get there tractor and equiptment show at rural king farm supply,gallipolis ohio.all welcome new or old.