[AT] Tractor club

[Francis Robinson]

     Hi Ed:

    It always nice to have a face to go with a name who's writing you have been reading for some time.
     Such problems as you have mentioned below are exactly the thing I want to see... Hopefully from several folks. I want to know what has worked and not worked for others.  Of course it is always a case of YMMV depending on who you can sometimes get to pick up a ball and run with it or even the personalities of a handful of members.
     I want to pull together a very small organization committee to help me set this up and get it moving. I am thinking in terms of my hosting for about 2 or three years then it rolling off under its own power and finding its own location. During the first couple of years I would not expect it to even begin to afford to even rent grounds.
     I am absolutely not interested in forming a pulling club. The other club seems to do that well and I see no reason to try to pull any of that away from them. The collectors side of it however truly sucks (technical term) and I believe needs a "Do Not Resuscitate" order clipped to its chart.
     I'm thinking that a first "casual" show/gathering could be a founding meeting. I don't want this to become a your club or my club type of thing and am planning that first smallish event to ba a fall thing that will never conflict with the other club and so that those so inclined can belong to and participate in both clubs. There need be no competition between them like Darke County OH (Greenville) seems to have.
     I wanted to do this some years ago but my mother's Alzhiemer's and its accompaning psychosis made it impossible. Now we are in a position to do it and want to get it going.
     I think sometimes a lot of clubs work too hard at trying to do all of the same things that all of the other clubs are doing. I want to know what they are doing but I am also looking even harder for new ideas. As of this week I am setting a date for the first "gathering of old tractors" (no name in mind at this point) as the first week-end (Friday, Saturday and Sunday) of October. Yes, that is this year and yes my wife is already freaking out...   :-)
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     Has anyone seen a good buy on a duck aligner?   :-)




farmer

Francis Robinson
Central Indiana USA
robinson46176 at hotmail.com


> From: Edchainsaw at aol.com
> Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:59:28 -0400
> To: at at lists.antique-tractor.com
> Subject: Re: [AT] Tractor club
> 
> I was really glad to  get to talk with you  THursday night!
> We have a club  like you disscussed---  we  dont have   a  "show"  persay.   
> we have  picnics, rodeo's  a  christmas dinner and  a   winter dinner,   and   
> one   tech-business meeting... and MAYBE  a plowday 
>  
> we come talk --- very few show up..  most sit and let the meeting  go on and  
> then leave---   I've been president for 5yrs  now   and in the  20yrs  weve 
> had   4presidnts   I was  secretay for 10yrs  and have had the  newsletter 
> since 95...    
> We  had to cancel our picnic this year do to flooding,  our plow  day to 
> flooding.
> We really try to include the wives  and  children--   and  OTHER clubs  the 
> members belong too... that has been a  flop.
> and  as  a  travelling  exhibition of   JohnDeeres  we  have not done a good 
> job--my fault I would say as I  dont go around promoting  that.    I know  we  
>  have the reputation for  stuck upness--  I was really hoping to do  away 
> with that but       when you have the  best  ------  ( just  for laughs there ok) 
>  :)


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