Tractor Show with Pics!

[N80]

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.

 

[dieselfuelonly]

Those are some great pics, thanks for sharing!

 

[kozak]

N80,

Thanks for the pics. That old Dozer is cool !!

Vic

 

[N80]

Here is an old Hart Parr tractor with an interesting story:

It actually belongs to an acquaintance. I knew he had two tractors and that one of them was 'old'. I pictured an 8N or a little Farmall maybe. Well, he was there at the show and told me the Hart Parr was his. He really isn't into tractors and says it actually belongs to his 15 year old son who is apparently into tractors in a major way. He bought this machine not too long ago and one wonders why anyone would buy their 15 year old a tractor like this and pay to get it running. Well, the tractor actually belonged to his grandfather who purchased it new. The tractor had several owners locally since then but he finally tracked it down and got it back in his family.

Mr. Weaver, the old guy i mentioned before, is apparently the one who got it running again. Here he is working on the carb float, which was apparently stuck. Apparently it had to be hand carved to make a new one and the Dad of another one of my daughter's friends did that work:

The young man in the picture is the kid who owns it. It is hand cranked and they cranked a good many times before it finally cranked up:

Mr. Weaver fiddled with some levers and things and it started pooping along and then the owner hopped aboard and drove it around the grounds a few times. Neat machine.

Here is a little rear engined cultivating tractor. I think it was an A-C. There were at least 4 of these little guys. Most of them were orange. This one and one other looked to be perfectly restored. I'd never seen one before but apparently they are not rare:

 

[RobJ]

Nice shots!

 

[jjmarotz]

Great pics. One ?, is that Farmall 2 seater original factory, or someone's handywork? I ask cuz I've never seen one like that. Very nice indeed.

 

[RobS]

Good pics, thanks for posting. I love shooting old machinery. Happened upon a similar show last year on vacation. Fun story on the Hart Parr too.

 

[N80]

Great pics. One ?, is that Farmall 2 seater original factory, or someone's handywork? I ask cuz I've never seen one like that. Very nice indeed.

I don't know, but it looked factory. Here's a pic of a little JD with two seats. The JD looked factory too but its a very simple set up so could have been a mod:

Here are two girls on that little JD. The redhead is the girl in my son's class. Her grandad is the one who restored many of these tractors:

 

[farmerjim]

nice pics of the old iron. that last pic of the jd looks like our h, except it doesn't have a pto, where ours does. i believe the extra seats were put on for row crop use, easier to see when cultivating. many of the older models had cultivators or fertilizer side dressers or both mounted on the center belly area . again nice pics, there aren't very many old iron shows near me but i do get out and see some at the local fairs which have tractor pulls and ag exhibits.

 

[willfick]

I made it to that show, too.
There's a page of pics at Richburg Tractor Show
Some of them the same tractors George got, and a couple that aren't.
Good luck, Wm

 

[N80]

Nice pictures. I got a bunch more too. Will post some more later.

 

[Rara Avis]

Nice pictures. I got a bunch more too. Will post some more later.

Any more pics of the GREEN STUFF...

Also, were there any of the old STEAM TRACTION UNITS?...

 

[N80]

Any more pics of the GREEN STUFF...

Also, were there any of the old STEAM TRACTION UNITS?...

I think I have more 'green' pics. The only steam unit was a big free standing engine. Ran all day long. Pop! Woosh!

 

[N80]

Here's some green for you Paul:

A 720 with the cool curved fender and lights:

Don't know the model but it has nice clean lines:

This is a great looking machine. It says 'General Purpose' on the side:

I'll post some 'red' pics in a few minutes.

 

[N80]

Here are a few red tractors. For some reason, the jpeg compression seems exaggerated by the red in these pics, sorry.

An Earthway:

A Massey-Harris Pony. Never heard of it.

Here's an artsy-fartsy one:

 

[RobS]

Great pics George! I really like your artsy-fartsy side!!

 

[Egon]

Great pictures. Just keep em coming.

I can well recall the trashing machine. The combine like machine was a reaper or as we called it a "Binder". This was either pulled by horses or converted to be pulled by a tractor. The sheaves were stooked, usually about 6 per stook for drying. Come time for the Trashing the stooks were gathered using a pitchfork and hayrack usually pulled by horses. The machine shown is a small one. Many had wider drum [not proper name] and longer feeder so they could be fed from both sides at the same time. The stooking and trashing were very hard work.

In our part of the country each fall workers from the eastern Canada would come to help with the harvest. There were even special worker trains put on for the season.

The meals served Threshing Crews were something else again. The table groaned as it was loaded. The crew also had midmorning lunch and mid afternoon lunch each of which would almost comprise a full meal.

In most cases the grain was augured directly into a grain bin. Shoveling the grain in the bin was usually the domain of the younger boys. It was an itchy job. Especially with barley.

Days long gone by. It is hard to realize that this same machinery was used to farm the same acreage that is under cultivation today but now has many fewer workers on the fields.

 

[Rara Avis]

Here's some green for you Paul:

A 720 with the cool curved fender and lights:

Don't know the model but it has nice clean lines:

This is a great looking machine. It says 'General Purpose' on the side:

I'll post some 'red' pics in a few minutes.

Cool pics...Thanks for the effort...

The GP is a real collector's item in that shape......(and I'll even refreain from a safety comment about it...)

I ran an old 720 when I was a kid...tricycle gear with NO SAFETY EQUIPMENT...what was I thinking...