If you didn’t recognize the beat of its four-cylinder heart, didn’t know the bellow from its steel throat, surely you knew its badge: art, meeting agriculture. It was a Fordson. The name came from Henry Ford and Son, shortened to Fordson. The tractors prowled the planet — plowed it, too. From African plains to AlabamaContinue reading “Agrarian Edition No. 10: Power No More”
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Agrarian Edition No. 9: Allis’s Restaurant
When it had dragged its last plow; pulled from the earth its final stump; and towed its last car from an icy ditch, this late ’40s Allis Chalmers took on a new job. These days, this 20-hp tractor pulls travelers off the road to a family-owned restaurant where employees make syrup in steam-filled rooms. Hadley,Continue reading “Agrarian Edition No. 9: Allis’s Restaurant”
It Was Running When I Parked It 