The tracor pull event at the Coyote Flats Pioneer Village near Picture Butte, Alta., proves a good place for tractor renovators to compare notes.
Photos by Barb Glen.
Lloyd Mickalyk of Calgary brought his 1947 John Deere AR to compete in the Sept. 26 tractor pull at Coyote Flats Pioneer Village. He has about 15 tractors and has been coming to the Picture Butte, Alta., event for about 10 years.
Tractor consoles were a lot simpler in 1947 than they are today.
Tony Kok writes down one of the times clocked by participants in the Sept. 26 tractor pull held at the Coyote Flats Pioneer village near Picture Butte, Alta.
Visitors to the Sept. 26 tractor pull at the Coyote Flats Pioneer Village near Picture Butte, Alta., watch some of the action. The event is organized by the Prairie Tractor and Engine club based at the village.
Grady Vogel of Trochu, Alta., left, talks tractors with Randy Brown of Fort Macleod. Brown pulled the Minneapolis Moline "out of the bush" and entered it in the Sept. 26 tractor pull at the Coyote Flats Pioneer Village near Picture Butte, Alta.
Lloyd Mickalyk of Calgary has no luck starting one of John Rudelich's tractors Sept. 26 during the tractor pull hosted at Coyote Flats Pioneer Museum near Picture Butte, Alta. Mickalyk owns about 15 John Deere tractors, all of which he has restored.
