However, the cabs, seats and sidings of the tractors are not only under siege by children on a sunny afternoon. Adults also spin the steering wheel. “It’s a colossus. Respect. I tried to get into the cab of the tractor, but I would definitely not go on the road with it. I would be scared, “says Stanislav Lébl, who came to the Rajhrad tractor tractor from nearby Moutnice. “No, you couldn’t, you had beer,” laughs his girlfriend Jana. According to their couple, they made a nice trip to their friends on Saturday.

The tractor show is organized by the Rajhradice for the sixth time and, according to Tomáš Hájek, it is built on a meeting of locals and cross-country skiers who combine work with agricultural machinery. “Dads and grandfathers boast the machines we work with in the fields. They will exchange experiences. Accept the whole family, it’s about a friendly reunion. The children turn the wheel, blow the horn. Local associations then compete in goulash cooking. Virtually the whole village lives by Traktoriáda, “says Tomáš Hájek on behalf of the organizer of the event.

The newcomers on Saturday also admire the shiny New Holland TD65 machine of Mr. Václav from Rajhradice. Three-cylinder with the output of sixty-five horses. “We are working with him in a mess. When making hay for horses. It’s a hobby for me, not a job. I still remember hay without technology very well. Especially my hands. Now it’s basically a trumpet. It’s just that a tractor or a beaten pipe of a good man who has demarcated his piece of land must not hit the tractor, “the man said.

After three o’clock in the afternoon, a sleepy tractor ride starts from the football field. The column is awaiting a roughly six-kilometer pilgrimage through the village. According to Hájek, more than forty machines arrived. Most of them are local, but there are also tractors from neighboring Rebešovice, Vojkovice, Popovice or Rajhrad. Michal Málek from Rajhradice also drives the engine on a historic tractor. “He is a veteran from 1962. Austrian machine Steyr 188. I have it for about three years. He’s a worker. Although only for light work, but reliable. An excellent helper for hay or mulching. They don’t fight, they don’t ride anything, “a man pats the machine, almost sixty years old, on the hood.

He adds that he drove a tractor and a siding at the age of ten. “It simply came to our notice then. Moreover, the village did not look at it that way. And most importantly, there was no such operation as today, “he adds and together with his son he makes a fun ride through Rajhradice.