It even stops with hand brakes. The family's farm tractor, which was used to plow corn, was burned by Serb paramilitary forces, he says. This tractor is the one used in the garden. Slowly, a meter at a time. Several Albanians have tried to buy the refugee tractors for resale in a nation where they are expensive and in high demand.
Most farmers turn their fields with a pickax and shovel.
But most of the tractor families here won't even entertain the idea of selling. It has a 47-horsepower diesel engine and reaches a top speed of 15 mph. He bought it a few years back from an uncle. Its oxidized blue fenders and worn 4-foot tires show the hard hours of farm labor. But there is at least one more job left for the big machine.