[AT] Show season

[Dave Merchant]

I'm really glad to hear that the 2 Greenville shows are now on different
weekends.  Hope it stays that way and not just a freak of the calendar.

When the steam side of the club moved to the grounds north of town,
and the club split up, the 2 shows competed on the same weekend,
to the detriment of both.

We haven't been to the Darke County steam show in several years,
but always thought it was one of the best shows around.

Standard procedure has always been to go to the AFM on Monday,
then eat at the Flying Tiger (is it still there?)  before heading home.

Fortunately, the local Ashtabula County show this weekend has
an active steam contingent, only 5 engines, but at least a couple
are working all the time.  Mostly Amish, so they're not there Sunday.

Feature is Farmalls, lots of nice ones there.

Dave Merchant


At 10:23 PM 7/3/2009, you wrote:
>Went this afternoon to my first tractor show of the year, and had a good
>time.  The Darke County Steam Threshers Association show north of
>Greenville, Ohio, had a lot of interesting things going on:  steam tractor
>pulling a four-bottom John Deere plow, Farmall H and Allis WD working up
>what looked like a new pulling track, Minneapolis-Moline U and McCormick
>binder harvesting wheat, draft horses pulling the wagon carrying the bound
>wheat to the steam-tractor-driven Case thresher, lots of other steam
>tractors chuffing around or running Baker fans, a tractor parade (high-crop
>Allis D-19 really caught my attention, the only one I've ever seen), etc.
>Dave Laughead was driving a Farmall A in the parade.
>
>I was especially impressed with the stuff they'd organized to make it fun
>and interesting for kids:  after the threshing was done, they hid a bunch of
>candy and some money in the straw stack and then let the kids dive in and
>hunt for it.  And they had some tug-of-war games between a whole bunch of
>kids pulling against a half-scale live steam tractor.
>
>I posted a few photos at http://www.vinsonfarm.net/shows.html, mixed in with
>older photos from Portland and other shows.
>
>Hope to head back up to Greenville next weekend for the Farm Power of the
>Past show, and then over to Plain City the weekend after that for the Miami
>Valley Steam Threshers Association show.  Gotta love the summertime.
>
>Dean Vinson
>Dayton, Ohio
>www.vinsonfarm.net
>
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