McCormickland

 Rosanne Fortier - News Correspondent

 Several people in Vegreville were curious about a small piece of land north of the Co-op that has a collection of International and McCormick tractors, equipment, combines, trucks, and more. Darcy Lencewich started collecting these machines in May of 2009 when the obsession started with a W4 McCormick tractor. The machinery is from the late 40s, 50s, and 60s. The newest is a 1966 model 1206 International.

The combines are from the early 70s.

Darcy grew up on a farm southeast of Vegreville in Lavoy, which he believes has something to do with his passion for collecting this equipment. He is a mechanic by trade now and lives in Vegreville.  “These W4 and W6 tractors and machinery were like the ones I grew up with on the farm. You can take the boy out of the farm, but you can’t take the farm out of the boy. I don’t own any land, except this 1/2 acre of a farm I purchased in 2020, I have called “McCormickland”. The closest I might come to owning a farm at all. I also cut and split firewood here.

Tractors are displayed at the Vegreville Father’s Day Show and  Shine, at tractor pulls, field work at the Vegreville Corn Maze, when I am parading in towns, and when plowing for certain farmers.”

Darcy closed by saying the equipment in the past was simpler, with less technology, and easier to operate, in his opinion.