Leading the World’s Greatest Tractor Parade was 93-year-old Ron Putman of Stirling-Rawdon. He’s done a lot of farming over the decades and is showing off the Minneapolis Z tractor that he restored himself.(Photo/John Spitters/Quinte News)
They were all there on a sunny summer Saturday afternoon. Young, old, rusty, and shiny!
Tractors of all sizes, shapes, and sounds wound through the streets of Stirling in the 2018 edition of the World’s Greatest Tractor Parade, 286 of them in fact.
Right behind Ron Putman was the reigning Hastings County Plowing Match and Farm Show’s Queen of the Furrow Samantha Reid.(Photo/John Spitters/Quinte News)
The parade is put on by the Stirling-Rawdon fair board and the Quinte Antique Tractor Association.
Belleville Mayor Taso Christopher (left) along with his daughter Michelle and Hastings-Lennox and Addington MPP Daryl Kramp. Other local politico sightings involved Quinte West Mayor Jim Harrison, Deputy-Mayor Jim Alyea, councillor Karen Sharpe, Hastings-Lennox and Addington MP Mike Bossio, and of course the Mayor of Stirling-Rawdon Rodney Cooney. (Photo/John Spitters/Quinte News)
Organizer Darrin Heasman says just two days before the parade only 120 tractor owners had registered but there was a frantic last minute rush to join.
In 2008, a Guinness Book of World Record was set in Stirling when the parade featured an incredible 601 tractors.
