[AT] PA Farm Show ...Was 1955 farm equipment films

[Rob Gray]

They show all of the PA Farm Show horse pulling events on TV each year 
where I live. It is interesting seeing the teams hook up to the sled and 
pull the weight. Some of them can be very flighty and just getting them 
connected to the sled is an adventure in itself and is fun to watch.

Rob
NE PA

Dudley Rupert wrote:

>Steve,
>
>Thanks for passing along the show web site.  It's good to hear the show is
>still going on and, from the site, it sounds like it is quite successful.
>
>Incidentally one of the memories I have from the show I attended was the
>team-pulling contest ... they had no tractor pulling back then that I
>recall.  This was the first and only team pulling I've seen.  Anyway there
>was what looked like an iron A frame welded to the top of the sled with a
>vertical pulley attached to the top of the A.  A cable went over the pulley
>and down to the top of the sled where iron weights (they looked like giant
>barbells as I recall) were hung on the cable.  The other end of the cable
>was hooked to the double tree.  In order to pull the sled the horses had to
>first lift the weights maybe a foot off the top of the sled where they then
>would be stopped by the top of the A frame.  My fifty-year memory of this
>event may be failing me here but I seem to recall the top teams being able
>to lift around 1800 pounds and then dragging the sled for several feet.  The
>horses looked like they had a million muscles bulging out and the angle
>between their front legs and the ground when they were pulling hard seemed
>like it was 45 degrees.  I know I wondered how the veins stayed in the
>horses and how the stitching and rivets stayed in the harness.  I would like
>to see one of these pulls again ... that is, if it is still done anywhere.
>
>Dudley
>Snohomish, Washington
>
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>Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 11:16 AM
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>Dudley
>
>You just missed it...
>http://www.agriculture.state.pa.us/farmshow/site/
>
>My Folks stopped in on their way back from a month on the east coast
>(following Christmas).  My Dad went to the show as a kid many times...He
>grew up in Indiana County.  They just left for a month in the SouthEast.
>He sure loves this retirement thing...Building a Shed for one of my
>sister's in Georgia and attending a few shows in Florida before heading
>back...Hopefully he will get some work done on his Super H this
>spring...the one that had the tree fall on it after being struck by
>lightning.
>
>Steve
>
>--- Dudley Rupert <drupert at premier1.net> wrote:
>
>I am curious if any of you Pa folks on the list know if the annual
>Harrisburg Farm Show is still being held and, if not, do you know when the
>last one was held.  I attended the Winter 1955 show which, as I recall,
>was in February.  Big deal for a kid (got to get out of school) -
>
>Dudley
>Snohomish, Washington
>
>
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