N80
Super Member
This may not be the right forum for this but I think its probably okay. But today I went to a little local antique tractor in Richburg, South Carolina which is about halfway between where my house is and where my property and tractor are. The show hardly advertised at all and it was hard to find out anything about it so I had pretty low expectations.
Boy was I wrong. There was a band, fantastic local barbecue cooked on site, lots of great old and unusual tractors, and a lot of great people, many of whom I had unexpected connections with.
They had a wheat processing demonstration that was just fantastic. They had actually planted wheat months ago. Then they cut it and sheafed it with an ancient pull behind combine like thing...failed to get a picture, sorry. Then they took it over to this enormous, wicked looking thresher that they had to fiddle with constantly:
It threshed the wheat and put the seeds into bags and shot the hay out a pipe on the back. Then they pitched the hay into this gas powered baler which made perfect, super tight bales:
The guy in the blue plaid shirt is Mr. Tom Weaver. He owns all the wheat stuff and a good many of the tractors in the show. And half of the ones he didn't own, he restored for people. And what's even more amazing is that he (and/or his family) sold many of the Farmalls originally, when they were new and he restored them recently! It just so happens that his granddaughter is in my son's class in school and the two of them are pretty good friends. So I met Mr. Weaver and talked with him a while. Neat old guy.
This is a little Oliver gas powered dozer. Has a PTO on the back as well as a pulley wheel for running belt driven implements. I met the owner who was a doctor from somewhere in the midwest. A local fellow from Richburg, whose daughter is friends with my daughter, had helped build a new clinic for him and when he heard there was a tractor show down here he made the trip with the Oliver. Nice guy.
Finally, here is a tractor built for two:
I'll post some more pics later and tell you about a neat old Hart Parr tractor that was at the show.
Boy was I wrong. There was a band, fantastic local barbecue cooked on site, lots of great old and unusual tractors, and a lot of great people, many of whom I had unexpected connections with.
They had a wheat processing demonstration that was just fantastic. They had actually planted wheat months ago. Then they cut it and sheafed it with an ancient pull behind combine like thing...failed to get a picture, sorry. Then they took it over to this enormous, wicked looking thresher that they had to fiddle with constantly:
It threshed the wheat and put the seeds into bags and shot the hay out a pipe on the back. Then they pitched the hay into this gas powered baler which made perfect, super tight bales:
The guy in the blue plaid shirt is Mr. Tom Weaver. He owns all the wheat stuff and a good many of the tractors in the show. And half of the ones he didn't own, he restored for people. And what's even more amazing is that he (and/or his family) sold many of the Farmalls originally, when they were new and he restored them recently! It just so happens that his granddaughter is in my son's class in school and the two of them are pretty good friends. So I met Mr. Weaver and talked with him a while. Neat old guy.
This is a little Oliver gas powered dozer. Has a PTO on the back as well as a pulley wheel for running belt driven implements. I met the owner who was a doctor from somewhere in the midwest. A local fellow from Richburg, whose daughter is friends with my daughter, had helped build a new clinic for him and when he heard there was a tractor show down here he made the trip with the Oliver. Nice guy.
Finally, here is a tractor built for two:
I'll post some more pics later and tell you about a neat old Hart Parr tractor that was at the show.
