[AT] Holt steam traction engine.

[John B]

I would like to add that  Don Hunter  is aiming to
bring the Holt steam tractor replica to the Heidrick
Ag History Center's annual show, which this year will
also be the annual meeting and show of the Antique
Caterpillar Machinery Owner's Club. The show will be
at the Dan Best Ranch in Woodland on June 20-22. Dan
Best, Sr., who just died about a month ago, was the
son of C.L. Best, the founder of the Best half of
Caterpillar. The show is shaping up to be a once in a
lifetime collection of rare and unusual Holt, Best,
and Caterpillar machines, including operating
harvesters. Believe it or not, there are machines
coming in from as far away as Australia.

Since the Best Ranch is only about 4 miles away from
our place, I am looking forward to bringing a bunch of
machinery, including my Case thresher, John Deere
grain binder, Fageol tractor, and several other
tractors and plows. I don't have any Cat equipment,
but the show is open to all makes and models. If you
can possibly attend, don't miss it. There is more
information at http://aghistory.org

John Boehm
Woodland, CA
Visit my web site at http://vintagetractors.com


--- rdhaskell at juno.com wrote:

>  Hi Dave.
> The pictures were taken in his industrial building. 
> The short story is
> eight years ago he found the crankshaft and one
> eccentric for the
> tractor.  With information in a book he found at the
> University of
> California at Davis, he built the rest.  He
> estimates he has over 20,000
> hours in it so far.  He has several other old pieces
> of equipment, but I
> wouldn't really say he is a collector, and it is not
> a museum.  
> More of the story is available on Smoke Stack under
> Steam, and Lugs and
> Cleats.
> 
> Ron Haskell
> rdhaskell at juno.com
> Riverside, California USA
> http://picasaweb.google.com/RonHaskell
>
http://albums.photo.epson.com/j/AlbumList?u=3009370&f=0
> 
> On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 02:05:16 -0500 Dave Merchant
> <nesys_com at ameritech.net> writes:
> > Wow!
> > 
> > Is this a museum or a private collector?
> > 
> > Dave Merchant
> > 
> > 
> > At 10:28 PM 3/22/2008, you wrote:
> > >Hi all.
> > >Here are a few pictures I took of Don Hunter's
> Holt today.
> > >http://picasaweb.google.com/RonHaskell/Holt111
> > >
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