My father and I had been planning this day for 15 years. The first 13 were spent in green envy of the machine, a John Deere two-cylinder crawler: a beautiful, metal-tracked dozer with mounted blade.

Tracked tractors are widely recognised as being the best means of putting serious horsepower to the ground. They’re expensive to buy new, yet here in the UK we still lap them up – nearly 200 are sold ...

The preservation of old agricultural machinery keeps our heritage alive, says Marlborough Vintage Farm Machinery Society curator John Burnett. The club was started in 1965 and now has about 200 old ...

Our old crawler tractors were much different than the modern comfort machines farmers currently operate. They were open-air cabs with barely a rickety umbrella to adjust for some partial shade. No AC, ...