Traditional style colour tattoo of a red tractor with billowing smoke above a sheaf of wheat, on the calf.

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Red tractor and wheat sheaf on a calf

Traditional · Calf · Colour · Photo

A red tractor with a green-hubbed rear wheel and the word FOX on its side sits above a sheaf of golden wheat tied with a ribbon. Pale pink smoke clouds rise from the exhaust stack against a soft blue-green wash. Bold black outlines, flat red and yellow fills and shaded clouds give it a classic traditional look, set against a plain background.

Traditional Calf Smoke Cloud Wheat Ribbon

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The rain had stopped for the first time in nine years when Mab Corrie went down to the barn for the tractor, and she found it exactly where her grandmother said it would be, under a sheet of tarred canvas, its red paint gone the colour of old brick. Nobody in Low Fenning had run an engine since the salt got into the wires. Mab had a jar of seed wheat, a cracked tin of diesel from the flooded depot, and a promise to the sea-wall council that the north field would be sown before midsummer.

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She pulled the cord, swore, and pulled again. On the ninth pull the stack coughed, and a grey breath rose over the roof like a cloud that had forgotten where it belonged. The children came running from the lower houses to watch the smoke. Old Thom said the smoke would keep the gulls off, and nobody argued, because he had also said the wheat would never come up in soil that tasted of brine, and he had been wrong about that.

She drove the tractor out along the bank with the wheat tied in a sheaf on the back seat, the ribbon snapping in the wind. At the end of the first furrow she stopped, climbed down and cut a stalk with her knife. The grain was golden and heavy. It was the first thing grown in that field since the river changed course, and she held it up so the children could see the colour of it, while the smoke rolled out above them and turned pink in the low sun.

Thom asked her what the sheaf was for. Mab tied the ribbon tighter and said a field needs something to remember it by, and that was all the old people had ever meant by bringing in the harvest. She set the sheaf in the cab beside the spare key, and the machine ground slowly back towards the barn, and nobody in Low Fenning ever again called it Old Red without first touching the wheat.