Drive your Tractor to school
Drive your tractor to school
Brandt Hiestand gets a taste of the kind of independence every teenager longs for as a 15-year-old. “It’s the one day out of the year I can drive myself to school and no one can really say I can’t,” says Brandt, a sophomore at Farina, Ill. The annual tradition they’re so excited about is Drive Your Tractor To School Day. The tradition dates back to at least the early 1980s, when Alec’s father remembers driving his own tractor to school. “A lot of farm kids might not have the nicest truck, but that’s because we have this $100,000 dollar machinery. This is kind of the one day a year that we can bring it and show it off. Bradt waxed it twice, did it in two nights, about three hours a night,” he says. Ag teacher T.J. Bolin gathers everyone together to decide on superlatives: oldest tractor, best-dressed, and loudest tractor.
My brother-in-law, a retired farmer, collects antique tractors. He has an entire barn full of them, absolutely amazing, not even any room to walk, and all in perfect working order. He confided in me the other day what his worst fear is. “A barn fire?” I asked. “No, not at all. I’m afraid that when I am gone, my wife will sell all my tractors for what I told her I paid for them.”
Anyone heard about that new movie about the tractor?
I just saw the trailer.
The internet connection at my farm was really poor, so I moved the modem to the barn…Now I have stable WiFi
What do you call a bunch of tractors parked in front of a McDonald’s on Friday night in Iowa?…Prom