18 Mar 16 Elegant Pictures of Tractors

No farm, small or large, can function without at least one tractor. They are the most functional of objects, bright and shiny for a very short time when they’re new and then old and rusty after a few seasons in harsh weather. A tractor will be used for as long as possible, until the farmer can’t patch it together any longer, and then it gets put out to pasture. But there, set against a stormy sky in Michigan, or a wheat field in Washington, they become items of beauty (just like barns can), contrasting with the landscape and adding a touch of permanence to an ever changing land.

Night Tractor by Michael Kitchen

Days Gone By by Summer Owens

Resting Rusty by Arlene Carley

Days gone by by Brenda Hartman

Baling At Berry Farm, Scalloway, Shetland by Anne Macdonald

Decline of the Small Farm No.2 by Randy Nyhof

Kansas Tractor & Baler at Sunset by Janel Haumont

Before Video Games–Boys Playing with Retro 50′s Toy Tractors by Eric Bjerke, Sr.

Somewhere Oklahoma by Plusten Photography

Vintage Massey Ferguson Tractors by Richard Nixon

Harvesting oats, southeastern Georgia? by Marion Post Wolcott

Farm Tractor and Sunset by Vicki France

Wheel With a Story by Maureen Kirk-Detberner

Harrowing a field with a diesel tractor, Seabrook Farm, Bridgeton, N.J. by John Collier

John Deere by Ally Smith

Abandoned Farm Tractor on the Prairie by Randy Nyhof