Students Celebrate "Drive Your Tractor To School Day"

[matcom]

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CASTLEFORD -- The sun rose Wednesday on a frigid gathering of teenagers and tractors on the Gonterman place.

Half a mile north of Castleford, the farm's equipment yard was a rendezvous point for Castleford School students who begged or borrowed farm machines for Drive Your Tractor to School Day.

Tim Frey showed up in his dad's John Deere 4650, which has been afflicted by a bit of a wobble since losing a dual wheel bent its axle.

"It was the only one that isn't in the shop right now," Tim said.

Dan Hill, another of the earliest comers, trumped that with a John Deere 9600 combine.

"My dad just barely bought it," Dan said.

And yes, the new owner authorized the combine's trip to school.

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[LiberalEsto]

1. We never have ANY fun

in boring old Maryland

[JVS]

2. That is a reckless use of extremely expensive equipment

[jswordy]

3. Geez. Happens every year where I live, it's an FFA function here...

...designed to instill pride in being a farmer for a living. I think it is awesome, since many of these kids have been told by our society that to get their hand dirty means they are inferior. Yet we all have full tummies from their labors!

Sorry if it offends the urbanites.

[JVS]

4. It doesn't offend me, but if I owed as much on a machine as many people...

owe on houses, I'd be really careful about only using it when necessary

[jswordy]

5. ...good for you...shrug...

[Jeff in Cincinnati]

6. Shhhhh....

Nobody tell JVS about tractor pulls. He'll be really pissed off.