Lanark tractor show 2006

[woodie]

Last May there was a vintage tractor show at Lanark, near where I stay. With the time coming round again I thought I'd post up some of the pictures. There was a very good turnout (easily more than 200 tractors). They meet at the Agricultural Market Ground then left in convoys on a road run thru Lanark and down to the New Lanark Mills (old Woollen mills, now a preserved site with museums and original buildings located right on the side of the River Clyde). The procession lined up in the grounds of New Lanark before proceeding back to Market Grounds again. It was a beautiful day and befitted such a spectacular turnout. Anyway here are some of the photo's (thought it would make a change from trucks!)

The tractors gather at New lanark;
http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o82/woodie_bucket/Lanark%20tractor%20show%202006/07-05-200600038.jpg

http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o82/woodie_bucket/Lanark%20tractor%20show%202006/07-05-200600037.jpg

A David Brown leads off from New Lanark;
http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o82/woodie_bucket/Lanark%20tractor%20show%202006/07-05-200600008.jpg

Fordson
http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o82/woodie_bucket/Lanark%20tractor%20show%202006/07-05-200600032.jpg

Massey Ferguson
http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o82/woodie_bucket/Lanark%20tractor%20show%202006/07-05-200600034.jpg

Leyland
http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o82/woodie_bucket/Lanark%20tractor%20show%202006/07-05-200600026.jpg

John Deere
http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o82/woodie_bucket/Lanark%20tractor%20show%202006/07-05-200600015.jpg

Minneapolis - Moline
http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o82/woodie_bucket/Lanark%20tractor%20show%202006/07-05-200600009.jpg

Unknown (sorry)
http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o82/woodie_bucket/Lanark%20tractor%20show%202006/07-05-200600039.jpg

[hellcat_99]

These are great pic's Woodie.
What is the Convoy for? Do you raise money?
Tell me more please.

Holly

[Accremonious]

Very good, Woodie. In Canada this would be a protest convoy going to Queen's Park or Parliment Hill bemoaning the lack of farm subsidy supports!
That John Deere is too new, I think to be an antique. They need to have a few of the old 2 lungers! What brand is that final unit pictured?

[woodie]

I must confess that I do not know the make of the last tractor. There was only that one at the show and it was the last in the line up. I think that it was American, and I can remember that the whole tractor shook to the vibration of the engine as it ticked-over.

I have posted more pictures in my album in the UK site photo gallery, all taken on that day.

The John Deere is still fairly old, but I couldn't put an actual age on it. About 15 years ago I had a contract for collecting second hand tractors and taking them down to a dealer in England. He would dismantle them and pack them into containers for shipping to the States. He obviously favoured John Deere and Ford, and almost always the smaller sizes of these makes, as he could sell them to the small farmers in the country. I was surprised that there was such a big market for this, the dealer would come up to the markets round Scotland and buy the tractors in batches of between 5 & 10 at a time.

[Accremonious]

Yes there is a huge market for small and antique farm tractors over here.
The John Deere is a 4 cylinder diesel model 2050 and about 15 years old would be ball park or older. That last one is the color of Oliver tractors but the front logo says Diesel which is not much help!
I have seen many flatbed loads of several tractors each that have been auctioned off and going to where ever.
One usage is as a lawn ornament if it is beyond field service! I was promised an instant divorce if I bought one for our lawn!
I could not sell the idea that every good ole country boy has to have a freshly painted and trimmed John Deere two lung with an empty tobacco tin upside down over the exhaust stack as a lawn center piece.

[woodie]

The last tractor is a 'Field Marshall' for some history on this make following this link;

http://www.ytmag.com/articles/artint117.htm

The engine was a single cylinder, which would explain the vibration as it ticked over.

And whats wrong with having a tractor in the garden, has your wife no sense of fun, just think how much fun the kids/grandkids would having playing on it everytime they came round. My father had two concrete sheep, and car treasure hunts would use them as part of their clues, however we cottoned on to this and used to pitch a tent over them when we realised that there was a hunt on.

[Accremonious]

Field Marshal! Now I remember it, I have seen one or two long ago!
The lawn ornament was for the front yard in a residential neighborhood! ha ha ha. Some people have no sense of humor!
This week I got a $50.xx parking ticket in London for parking on my son's front lawn on the day Sears was to deliver his new appliances. Sears requires the driveway to be unobstructed! A neighbor also got one on his older car for sale on his lawn, both were not on city property! So the Sears guys come 45 minutes later and park out on Highbury blocking traffic just 1 1/2 blocks from where it ceases to be a 100KPH freeway!
The fine is paid and the brochure acquired lists the schedule of parking infraction fines: only $30.xx to park in a loading zone, or no parking zone, $20.xx in a legitimate time restricted zone beyond the 2 hours allowed, etc. I will leave my thoughts unsaid!
If I find an Amish buggie for sale, I wonder if I parked it on his lawn would they ticket it too? It would be a bit of fun to dress in black, and go complain about their ticketing practices, but it would be just my luck to be asked in German to explain where I was keeping the horse!

[woodie]

You got fined for parking on a front lawn!! How can the Authorities do that if it's your sons lawn?

[Accremonious]

If you don't pay the fine, then the next time your driver's license and your vehicle licenses are due the Province refuses to allow you to re register any and all!
The City can and does set up the rules by which you may park and the fine levels, but it is under the Provincial Offenses Act. Also the City approves the Lot Plan of your residence and if you park a car outside of the driveway it violates the Act. To make your driveway wider, longer, or into a "Y" shape or a "T" shape you must apply for a permit and pay the fee for an amendment to the official plan.
If these blasted politicians could do it they would tax the air we breathe and require a permit to pick your nose! Thats what is wrong with our North American way anymore!
These are the same descendants of the original emigrants from the Auld Sod that left because they lacked the freedom to do what ever they felt was their right to do. Now look at us, we can't escape the insufferable *******s! I can't afford to fly to the boonies never mind the moon!

[woodie]

My commisserations to you, that does seem most unfair that you can't (within reason) do what you want in your own property.

Sounds like it's maybe not a tractor you need for the front lawn, but a Sherman tank!!