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[Bret Meyer]

I'm pretty new to this list, but have snooped long enough that I thought I
would respond.

Mine was either Camp Creek Threshers in Waverly, NE or Deer Creek Sodbusters
in Sterling, NE in the 80's.  My Grandpa took me to both and got me hooked
on rusty iron.  He also took me to Midwest Old Threshers in Mt. Pleasant, IA
.  He started me out on little Maytag's and then let me move up to a little
bit bigger ones as I'd get the hang of them.  He had a 3hp Deere, 1 1/2hp IH
M, 2hp Rock Island, and a 11/2-2hp Gade that he let me take to the shows.
He'd frequently take his 8hp Dempster and 10-20 Titan.  It was a lot of fun
and I definitely miss those days.

Bret



On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Indiana Robinson
<robinson46176 at gmail.com>wrote:

> What was the first old tractor show you ever attended?
> -
> I'm pretty sure it was the Rushville Indiana show, in the next county
> east of me. I had been to an old threshing show at least before with a
> steam engine, a threshing machine, wagons or bundled wheat and a
> number of horses. That was at the Indiana State Fair (next county
> north west) about 1954 or so. One of the things that sticks in my mind
> from that was that my father ruined his shirt while watching (lots of
> white shirts in those days) from the drifting mist from the engine
> stack. It never would wash out.
> I attended a later show out on a farm in Johnson County (next county
> west, Franklin IN) with a cousin from Chicago. We were about 14. The
> big picture stuck in my mind there was that it was the first time I
> had seen a team decked out in full body leather strip fly covers.
> Those were pretty expensive, still are.
>
>
>
> --
> Have you hugged your horses today?
>
> Francis Robinson
> aka "farmer"
> Central Indiana USA
> robinson46176 at gmail.com
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