I made it to the Mid-America Threshing and Antique Tractor Show! I look forward to this each August, make a sashay to the 4-H grounds, then it's over for another year. For me. There is yet one more day of festivities.
Things have been changed-up a good bit when compared to previous years, but the old machinery is still proudly presented. As my bicycle and I arrived there was a on-grounds tractor parade in progress with announcer on PA identifying the machines and giving names of owners and operators. I stopped and watched a few of them pass, then shot across the parade route and continued to the display of my beloved pop-and-spin engines. Huge flaw. I took several pictures but stupidly did so with the so-called smart phone and stupid me, I haven't yet mastered the simple task of transferring them to my blog. Worse, all the shots I took were videos, unbeknownst to me, rather than stills. The pictures I show here I took with the old reliable pocket Canon.
This combine was state-of-the-art when I was a young man. Today's combine could probably swallow this one up, chew it into bits and spit it out.
A major difference this year is that rather than displaying tractors in long, neat rows by make they were spread all over kingdom come with RV's interspersed here and there and kiddies playing in their "yards." Also not only were people bringing their golf carts and zipping around, the promoters were providing carts for people who didn't bring their own. A veritable battery powered rolling zoo to contend with. I guess the thing has to move into the 21st century if it is to survive.
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