First round of pictures from the farm (A Devious Journal entry)

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Ruin, decay and machinery from my parents' farm in Minnesota. Shot over Thanksgiving 2008. Here we see a few shots of my father's 1958 (or so) John Deere 440 Industrial Crawler. The crawler has been rusting quietly behind the house for at least the last 12 years (when I left for college). I don't think it's been moved in that time, a belief that's confirmed by the level of junk that's been piling up atop it. Given that it had a lot of hours put on it with little to no maintenance, maybe it's time that this equipment was retired.


Start Me Up, Let's Go Digging by *panfah on deviantART


Hydraulics Levers by *panfah on deviantART


Hydraulic Ram by *panfah on deviantART

Comments

[daf666.livejournal.com]

Those pictures are far too happy. There's really no feeling of loneliness, desperation or any sense of the futility of life that I tune into rural ruin for.

That said, they're very good pictures, unless you're feeling like crap, then you really wanna beat the snot out of that caterpillar.

I don't blame you... It's a far too cheerful subject, that machinery.

[loboguara.livejournal.com]

You need to go all A-Team on that thing. Make it into an armored...um...thing. All you need is theme music and a welding torch, right?