[AT] Tulare CA antique tractor show - belated recap and Farmall!

[Grant Brians]

Another belated reply thanks to too much work! Well, my youngest son and 
I were at the show and auction and to his great glee, we were successful 
bidders on several items. I was happy to meet Dean for the first time in 
person and also was able to talk to several other good friends as well. 
Richard Walker was enjoyable to talk to as always, and also John Boehm 
from Woodland, who I need to pick up my D8 parts from still!
      Dean unsurprisingly had comments on some of the John Deere items 
and he neglected to mention our farm's further Farmall progress (wrong 
color? lol). We bought the beautiful Farmall 140 cultivating tractor 
being sold by the Watsonville, CA Ag History Museum. It spent it's life 
cultivating Strawberries prior to donation and my purchase of the 
tractor. It had the old style T-bar cultivating bars on the front and 
back that I fortunately have quite a few clamps for. The tractor only 
has 3800 hours on it! My son did his first independent driving of a 
tractor on this offset beauty.  This tractor joins a Farmall 240 and 
three Farmall 100s - of those only two are not cultivating tractors.  
The Farmalls are the "cute little tractors" of the fleet of useful farm 
tractors we use on the farm....
      Also, we bought a "new" Clipper for seed cleaning that judging 
from the markings and other details that is about 1900-1910 vintage. It 
is hand crank! This is perfect for our on farm seed cleaning for the 
immediate future. I have operated these years ago and am looking forward 
to lots of use. I also purchased the Ventura Bean Planter that was 
offered. This joins my other three! This one has been converted to 
3-point use and has rubber drive wheels so it can transport on the back 
of a tractor rather than on our equipment hauler. Those iron wheels are 
not high speed road tires! I have told the story before of moving my 
8x30 Ventura planter on the road at 3.5mph with the iron wheels and the 
22' width - not speedy even to move the 4.5 miles between two locations.
       Back to packing seed and trying to get some machinery fixed and 
collect money for some sold vegetables!
             Grant Brians - Hollister,California farmer of vegetables, 
edible flowers, herbs, seeds, orchards


4/19/2016 1:00 AM, D8RMAN at aol.com wrote:
> Dean, I have never been to this show but would love too some year. Did you
> see the CATERPILLAR guys playing in the dirt? That is why they love to come
>   to the Tulare show. Will you be at Brooks, OR or Shelton, WA this year? I
> will  be at Collier Memorial State Park Logging Museum in Chiloquin, OR on
> June 19,  2016 to help them with their Living History Day. This is a fun
> event for the  volunteers as we get the machinery ready in the days prior to the
> event and then  operate them for the visitor's to view. I usually operate a
> CATERPILLAR RD7  pulling a tracked logging arch or a CATERPILLAR 30 pulling
> a towed grader. There  is lots of old an rare machines there, some running
> some not. They have a big  chainsaw there with an Indian motorcycle engine
> as it's power and it is  beautifully restored. I will miss most of these
> shows when I move back to  Pennsylvania in the summer of 2017 and probably only
> make the show at  Brooks, OR as time may allow. I hope to see you sometime
> this year at one of  these shows. Willard Smith
>   
>   
> In a message dated 4/16/2016 10:02:40 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
> deanvp at att.net writes:
>
> Met  Grant Brians at this show today during the  auction.
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