Getting Started on your Antique Tractor restoration project.

Isn’t it amazing how quickly something you see, hear or read can trigger a response? Today as I read the thought for the day “A candle looses nothing by lighting another candle,” that is just what happened.

I had been sitting here thinking, boy with the election near and all the media focus on comments of the candidate, why bother writing anything? Who will want to read anything I might have to say? But reading that quip I realized what I have to say is just as important as any candidate. I guess it lit my fire. Because I am one of us, and we (you, I and all other Americans) are the reason all candidates want to be in office. We are also the reason any candidate will get in office.

What has this got to do with antique tractors? For everyone one of us that preserve an antique tractor a bit of history is saved and made. It doesn’t matter if your tractor isn’t as rare or completed by more skillful hands than someone else’s antique tractor. It doesn’t even matter if you spent less money to do it. You have added to and not taken away. Like the candle you have likely inspired (lighted the flame) someone else to get to work on his/her old tractor. Did you ever notice how you put things off and suddenly something reminds you it is time to quit putting things off? Like the quip lighted a fire under me to get busy writing the article. If it is ever going to get completed you have to begin?

As the fall turns to winter the time is right for those projects you put off all summer so you could attend the shows. Maybe you purchased your next project at one of those shows. Why not stoke up the wood burner in the shed and kick back and enjoy yourself as you work on your next project. This web site is getting a good selection of restoration product providers listed to help you with your project too. I also have seen quite a few antique tractors for sale on www.hotlineguides.com , might be good for your next project if you don’t already have one.

What you and I say and do is important. It doesn’t matter if it is related to current events or our special hobby. The world doesn’t stop because of the election or other current events. Everything is important or it wouldn’t be worth spending the time to do. Maybe I’m sounding a bit nostalgic today, but isn’t that what it’s all about. Without the past there would be no future. So preserve it as best you can. WE make up what makes America, America.