C'mon you tractor blokes

Thought it might be appropriate to throw this one in here Geoff...
One i penned some time back, while working out of the Mallee..

Hope it turns out for you blokes

chocs

The Cocky..
By Rick Hayman Aka Chocs

As a 'cocky' woke, another day.
Straight to the window he would stray.
His hardened gaze upon his land,
Would this day go just as planned?
He's seen before, the dry times here,
The look above was all too clear.
Many times he'd cursed the dry,
Why bother, why even try?
He pulled on his boots, and wandered out,
He saw nothing, but dust and drought.
He'd dry sown seed and prayed for rain,
Another gamble, he'd chanced again.
The rains would come and just in time,
With spring time here, the crops looked fine.
An inch or two is all he'd need,
To fill the heads with grade one seed.
A lucky break had eased the debt,
The drought still here, not over yet.
It's hard to say which way to go,
Try crop again? It's hard to know.
There's been some change in forty years
We've won and lost and faced our fears.
Seen farms sold up and flooded out,
Land burnt and parched with drought.
Bloody hard yard, this farming game
Never a day, or week the same.
One thing's for sure and you can bet

And one from me from '93 ...

TIME PASSES ON
by Bugly

Under the trees just out of town stood a one-roomed iron shack.
Across the front a veranda sagged

Good on ya Bugly
Appreciate that...

chocs

Good on you Chocs, thanks for that, have had five inches for the year , the four and half mils last night has moved the outlook from not a lot to something, it's a bit short for hay. Cheers, David.

Good on ya Chocs and Bugly, you put the words together real well. The best way to get some rain is to cut some hay; never fails to work. Cheers

Some great photos u got here. Can i use some of them for my heavy machinery blog? Expanding info aobut classic would add very much to it!

I think it's a Allis Chalmers scrapper

like one of those

buda or detroit powered ? .... or ?

buda or detroit powered ? .... or ?

I think it's a 6-110 GM:)

cricky the machine is rare and so is the motor ... seen a old as in OLD allis chalmers grader a couple of months back at a local workshop ..it wasnt a detroit in it so i can only guess a big fat budda in it