Sunday, August 30, 2015
Tri-State Gas Engines and Tractor Association, Inc.
We drove to Portland, Indiana for the 50th Reunion of the
Tri-State Gas Engine and Tractor Association, Inc. show.
Tri-State Gas Engine and Tractor Association, Inc. show.
John Deere was the featured tractor.
John Deere 50, 60, 70 and 80.
An Indiana tractor.
The driver recruited a young lady to drive.
How easy is the Indiana to drive?
She even had a smile on her face.
A sewing machine?
Other interesting machines.
One of the most interesting things we saw were the windmills on the drive to Portland.
There were no windmills three years ago.
The windmills were north of Richmond near the city of Winchester.
(Looks like my lens needs cleaning!)
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The other interesting thing we saw was
the Levi Coffin House in Fountain City.
The Levi Coffin House was a station on the Underground Railroad.
Levi was often referred to as the President of the Underground Railroad.
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Today, August 30, is the fifth Sunday in August.
How often does that happen?
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Saturday, August 22, 2015
Greensburg
The featured tractor of this years show is International Harvester
(Farmall) tractors and Cub Cadet garden tractors
as well as IH gas engines.
Cub Cadets: 482, 582, 682 and 782.
Cub Cadets: 482, 582, 682 and 782.
Boys with too much time on their hands.
Red tractors and green tractors.
His and Hers.
Some yellow tractors.
1922 Farmall Bombshell
Steam baling hay.
This was the steam playground.
Russell & Co., Builders
Massillon, Ohio
Can crushing
and rope making.
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A family was grinding corn into corn meal.
Those walking by received a small bag of cornmeal.
Plus a recipe for cornbread.
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A windmill, a solar panel and the blue things
were twisting around in the breeze.
Examples of "renewable energy."
Did you know....
All Farmall tractors were painted a deep blue-grey until mid-1936. The wheels were most often red.
In mid-1936, a decision was made to change the entire tractor to a new color, "Farmall Red." Around this time, many tractor manufacturers began using bright, distinctive colors for branding (Allis-Chalmers orange, for example). A farmer could look out across the fields and see his neighbor's tractor from a great distance and know what make it was. This provided advertising in the intensely competitive tractor market.
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Saturday, August 15, 2015
Ohio Valley Antique Machinery Show
The 45th anniversary of the OVAM.
John and Mel worked together at G.E.
These four J.D.'s are owned by the Egbert Family.
Steam was operating the saw mill.
Miniature steam engine breaking small boards.
How cute is that?
Ford tractors, garden tractors and equipment along with
oil field engines were featured.
The steam was generated by the steam engines blowing their whistles at noon.
Peddle tractors arranged by color.
A couple of steam engines.
A cedar wagon.
The old school house.
Alpine School District #9
There is a nice little village on the grounds.
What is he writing? "I will not...."
And the steam shovel.
Friday was overcast. We walked around; got some free orange sherbet.
Donations accepted - later there would be chocolate and blueberry ice cream.
On the way home, we stopped for a late lunch,
then grocery shopped at the Eastgate Jungle Jim's.
An adventure. Always an adventure.
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Tuesday, August 04, 2015
Reunion in Pennsylvania
We drove to Pennsylvania for a reunion of John's mother's sisters.
There were four daughters in the family; no sons...
Aunt Velma and Aunt Nina are the two youngest sisters.
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Isabel was the oldest daughter. She and her husband, Bob, had five children.
They had four sons and one daughter.
Mildred was the second daughter. She and her husband, Kenneth, had seven children.
They had four daughters and three sons.
Velma was the third daughter. She and her husband, Jim, had three children.
They had two daughters and a son.
Nina was the youngest daughter. She and her husband, Russell, had three children.
They had three daughters.
Isabel was the oldest daughter. She and her husband, Bob, had five children.
They had four sons and one daughter.
Mildred was the second daughter. She and her husband, Kenneth, had seven children.
They had four daughters and three sons.
Velma was the third daughter. She and her husband, Jim, had three children.
They had two daughters and a son.
Nina was the youngest daughter. She and her husband, Russell, had three children.
They had three daughters.
Earlier that morning, we drove to downtown Meadville.
We stopped to walk through the Market House.
Folks were selling assorted vegetables outside
and crafts inside.
We drove by the old homestead.
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