Posted by Bob Hill on May 07, 2009 at 11:31:30 from (164.49.251.71):
Let me give a little background info that might help you all understand why I am asking the question.
I didn"t grow up on a farm, don"t live on one now and for the most part have never been on one BUT I really like old tractors. Not sure why except it is motorized and rolls on 4 wheels. I am a geniune car nut. I restore antique cars for a hobby and the family and I go all over the country showing them. We have been fortuante to win a lot fo shows but now we are sort of burned out of the car shows. I have two kids (a 10 year old son adn a 15 year old daughter) who loves the hobby almost as much as I do. They have both expressed a like for antique tractors as well so I have been looking around and found I can buy tractors already restored for probably less than it would cost me to restore it myself. I am considering buying them both an antique tractor - probably something like a Farmall Cub or somethign small like that with a wide front end so they could actually drive it in parades, etc. I am a little concerned about putting inexperienced youngsters on a tricycle front end tractor.
So anyway - to my question. If we do indeed buy tractors, we will want to attend tractor shows. Now granted, I know nothing about them thus the question. From what little I have gained from limited internet research, they are really differnet from a car show, especially in judging, etc. It appears most do not judge the tractors so it is a display only type show. I am okay with that since I am basically over the competitiveness of winning. The question I have is what goes on at shows. Are tractors put in "classes" or do they just park in order of arrival? What activities take place that would keep two youngsters involved during the day? Since I know nothign abotu farming, am I going to ahve anythig in common with any of the other participants? (I am a very social person so I don"t really want to sit there "alone" during the show since I have nothing in common with these folks (other than I have an old tractor).
Hoep these questions make sense. I don"t want ot spend a lot fo money on old tractors if we aren"t going to enjoy showing them since I would otherwise have no use (i.e. farm work) for them.
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