[AT] Reactions to pictures posted from Portland

[Ken Knierim]

Grant,
    I've been to the Tulare show and the Portland show. Portland is bigger.
Different grouping of stuff based on different farming conditions. When I
was at Tulare they also had a lot of new equipment.
    One thing in common... tractor folk are nice people. I haven't been to
Tulare since Karl Olmstead frequented this list but I still have the tractor
I picked up out there. Don't get a lot of vineyard tractors here in AZ
(though there are a lot of vineyards coming online here these days).

Ken in AZ

On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 9:18 AM, Grant Brians <sales at heirloom-organic.com>wrote:

> I looked at the pictures Paul posted with great interest and also the
> written words about the show. I had several reactions and also questions in
> response.
>     Living here in California where we are separated from the midwest and
> eastern members of the list by 1,000 to 3,000 miles and have different
> climates I first noticed all of those "STRANGE" so-called narrow front
> tractors! The first time I saw one of those locally had to have been about
> ten years ago because they were barely purchased here ever.
>     Second, even at the Tulare show (California Antique Farm Equipment
> Show) they are an almost rare exception in the show in the sea of wide
> fronts, tricycles (by far the most common antique cultivator tractor
> configuration here because of irrigated crops) and lots and lots of tracked
> tractors - mostly but by no means exclusively Caterpillars. Another thing
> that surprised me was the relatively large number of Cockshutt pictures.
> They were not sold in California new at all and few have travelled here.
>     Third, was a comment in Paul's message below that caught me eye and
> seemed odd. He says that Portland had almost a football field of displays
> in
> the tree area and larger in the open area. What size is the show? Tulare
> fully fills slightly over 2/3 of the 100 acres of display space at the
> showgrounds. There are typically close to 1000 tractors at the show. Then
> there are the antique trucks, vendors, auction - usually about 500 lots on
> Saturday with two rings going for most of the auction. How many attendees
> are usually there? I saw the 2007 figure of 15,000 attendees and have heard
> that the attendance this year and last had plateaued at slightly off the
> 2008 figure
>     Last, I will admit that the grass and trees were very nice to have on
> the grounds of the show - something that will not happen at our typical
> shows here due to our weather patterns. I hope all had a fun time at the
> show and look forward to inviting any list members to our California
> activities and I do welcome list members to the farm. I won't even require
> them to go to work for me! LOL.
>             Grant Brians
>             Hollister, California vegetable farmer
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
> [mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com]On Behalf Of Paul Waugh
> Sent: Friday, August 27, 2010 9:13 PM
> To: Tractor
> Subject: [AT] Portland
>
>
> I came back early. Weather was great, cool and no rain!!  One of the
> largest
> crowds I have seen in a while, for displays and spectator. We were under
> the
> shade trees, where it was real nice.  Part of the open field went to
> Caterpillars,  their first year to have a designated area.
>
> Under the trees, was a sea of people and tractors, close to a football
> field
> in size, the the open field had that many more.
>
> There was a good group around the fire, and I would not be able to name
> them
> all, but at least 9-10 with a few spouses.
>
> http://www.atis.net/forums/album.php?albumid=32
>
> Paul-46555
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