How things have changed! / myLot

United Kingdom

October 13, 2023 4:13am CST

Change often happens slowly and gradually, so that we don’t realise quite how much has happened until something brings the situation into sharp focus. At an agricultural show in the summer there was a parade of tractors, and that was one of those times when you suddenly see quite how much things have changed over the past 50 or so years. The vintage tractor with no cab and nothing but a flat cap to keep the rain off, is a world away from the modern air-conditioned monster! And yet many of these old machines are still running and still in use in many cases, as their simplicity makes it easy to keep them going, while the modern computerised versions are far more complex and specialist, and just buying a single tyre would set me back more than the cost of my car! I confess that when I think of a tractor the image that comes to mind is still somewhere in between the two extremes! All rights reserved. © Text and image copyright Fleur 2023.

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Judy Evans

@JudyEv (381739)

• Rockingham, Australia

14 Oct 23

The first tractors on our farm didn't have a cab of any sort. My father and brother would warm their home-made pies on the bonnet of the tractor as they drove along.

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Always smiling

@allknowing (153544)

• India

14 Oct 23

From bullocks to a tractor is a good change for us here in India .

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Eva James

@wolfgirl569 (135583)

• Marion, Ohio

13 Oct 23

I think of all types but I have seen the changes over the years with living in the middle of nowhere

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Gary Marsh

@garymarsh6 (23979)

• United Kingdom

13 Oct 23

Yes the poor farmers need a little comfort doing theur job from morning till late. I doubt the modern ones will be as long lasting like everything else these days!

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