One-Wheeled Wonders
Virginia man cultivates collection of unique garden tractors
By Phil James
Photos by Fred Brown
For Fred Brown, who lives in the rolling Piedmont foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains of western Albemarle County, Va., necessity proved to be the mother of discovery. “I always raised a big garden and I had a little push plow,” Fred recalls. “Not one of these high-wheeled cultivators, but a low-wheeled cultivator. I had figured how I could either put a gasoline or an electric engine on that thing. One day I went to a sale and I saw exactly what I wanted – a one-wheeled garden tractor.”