Well there'll always be somebody to fill the need, as long as there's a need. But they'll be few and far between.
I was just thinking about this whole question when I was getting a head done a few weeks ago.
When I was a kid, there were several places you could bring an engine block to be bored - heads done - etc. You had a your choice.
Now all those places have shut down.
There's one guy who used to work at my favorite place that I go to now.
He's got all the old equipment in his home shop.
He's an older guy, and doesn't have any help there. When he closes up shop, there's nobody he's passing all his knowledge on to, and I imagine all the machinery will go to scrap.
So - my point is if this continues at the same rate - by the time my kids get my age, they'll probably have to drive 5 hours to have any machine work done.
Overall, that will make things much more expensive and inconvenient - and the more expensive that kind of thing gets - the less likely it is to be done.
So I think the tractors will last - but I really don't think the skill to keep them running will. It'll just be too rare a commodity, and too expensive.
There will be SOME people out there keeping them alive - but nowhere near as many as today.
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