This weekend was the start of the moose hunting season. Better stay out of the forest for a while. My father-in-law told me there was a veterans tractor day not far from home. I grabbed the camera and joined him.
It was a pleasant surprise to see all the tractor models from my childhood. Some in mint condition and some very much in daily use. There was the Volvo BM 230 with its characteristic sound from its two cylinder diesel engine, “ti-to, ti-to. Hence it got the nickname “Tisdag-Torsdag”, Tuesday-Thursday, but it doesn’t make any sense in English, sorry.
There was also Volvo BM 430 and Volvo BM 350. The 350 was also called Boxer from its three cylinder boxer diesel engine. I remember the acrobatic struggle to get in and out of the Boxer. The smell of wet soil and diesel filled the air in the mild autumn weather as the sound of strong diesels rang in my ears.
Grounded in dirt, ha de Gött!
UlleHaddock 
there is something wholesome, refreshing and inspiring in seeing vintage farm machinery and tractors are high on my list; thanks for this post, Ulle and those great photos; William Carlos Williams should have written a great poem called ‘The Red Tractor’ rather than ‘The Red Wheelbarrow’ 🙂
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Thank you so much. I’ll see if I can come up with a Red Tractor poem. 🙂
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it would be good if you could; you would be the man to write it because you are so familiar with tractors; to hell with the red wheelbarrow, let’s have RED TRACTOR poem !
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