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This is a discussion on old farm machines within the General Photos forums, part of the Showcase category; look at the amount of steel, you could build a couple of todays cars with this amount. i think it ...

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old farm machines - 07-21-2011, 07:22 AM

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look at the amount of steel, you could build a couple of todays cars with this amount. i think it would be cool to see what the have evolved into now and are working hard in texas. that is if you can even tell what they were used for in the first place.
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07-21-2011, 08:34 AM


Love old machinery like that.

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07-21-2011, 05:35 PM


Those are old road graders or "maintainers".
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Thanks for the insight, Gary! Very cool to know.

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Very interesting pieces, I love to shoot that kind of stuff.

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07-21-2011, 11:16 PM


Toco, Texas just west of Paris there is a grass strip airport just a mile or so west of that there is a multiple-acre field of rusting farm tractors and assorted other machinery.
They are in neat rows as if standing on a parade ground ready for inspection.
At NW corner of Hwy 82 and CR 33005
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