SHOW BAGS A CROWD
Tractors Deere to their heart
THOUSANDS flocked to the Royal Geelong Show over the weekend to lap up the colour and thrills on offer.
GLENN Morrison knows a thing or two about tractors.
He owns more than half a dozen of the beauties proudly on display at this year’s Royal Geelong Show.
The Bannockburn bus driver has been part of the vintage machinery section of the Royal Geelong Agricultural Society for more than three decades and said he owns or has shares in so many he’s run out of fingers and toes to count them on.
“When I first bought a tractor it was in partnership with three other guys and it cost us $150,” he said.
“My dad worked on the farm so I always loved them.
“We’re just a bunch of big kids with big toys.”
Mr Morrison spent the weekend at the showgrounds displaying his pride and joy John Deere alongside his Bulldog collection.
He said the club membership base was on the rise with an increasing number of young males.
The “noise factor” and regular tractor pulls kept them entertained, he said.
“We’re very fortunate in this section to have a lot of young members. You’ll find in other sections they’re really struggling to get younger members but if you come here on a Tuesday night for our working bees you’ll see the younger ones dominate the older guys,” he said.
“The wives and girls are right behind us too.”
Section chairman Chris Quirke, from Newcomb, said, at 29 years of age, he was proud to be a club member.
“There’s at least four members with us who are still in high school,” he said.