A TRACTOR TRADITION
“I bought them with the intention of restoring and selling them on”
Sheep have always been an evil necessity and dairy cows are not much better. Just ask former sheep and dairy farmer Colin Harvey — give a man a truck or a tractor any time, he says. So when he and his wife Catherine converted their farm near Papakaio in North Otago’s Waitaki Valley from sheep to dairy in the 1980s, he successfully avoided the milking shed and raised beef cattle; managed the operation, including a run-off block; and did the tractor work. And for some six decades he has been buying, restoring, and selling tractors and farm trucks.
Gathering tractors
Colin bought his
