Heart of America Tractor Cruise Photos

The Heart of America Tractor cruise was held Saturday in and around Maryville, Missouri. 200+ antique tractors -- some real beauties! About 700 photos from the event are posted online at www.Tractorama.us -- see "HoA Cruise" link, or there are several links on the home page.

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We just gotta have those darn tractors out on the hiways.

Allan

My view is "when anyone is hauling a farmall on a highway, the same rules apply as if it were an ambulance; everyone pulls over and waits for it to pass."

mono

However, the practice of a group of grown men, running around in short pants and parading those old tractors up and down the public roadways, while all the while tying up traffic without even so much as giving it a second thought, is just being done in the wrong sand pile to my way of thinking.

Allan

Now, that said, if I was driving a tractor out on the highway on a hot Missouri summer day... I'd be wearing short pants.

Up here it is time to bale, and I'd rather spend my time doing that.

You've never heard me attack anyone or any piece of farm machinery; fact is, I've got a "thing" for old farm iron.

I was joking about the baler just like I joke about the 4020 John Deere tractors. It always seems to produce a "response" from the green guys. :>)

And, if telling the young lad with the engine the facts of life, which he might as well learn now while he's young/fresh anyway, is being rude, then so be it.

Allan