Anybody ever win a tractor?

KSmark · Sep 11, 2022

Yesterday i went to the power of the past show Ottawa Kansas.Every year they raffle off a tractor.This year its a Farmall C,bought 10 tickets.Unlike most of you i live in the city.Already have a Farmall H in the garage.My wife says what would we do with 2 tractors? I Said it would be a sign that we need to buy land immediately.

Geo-TH,In · Sep 11, 2022

I would buy tickets to win a tractor, but never did win.
I bought the tickets to support the local antique tractor club.
I think the club disbanded because of the lock down.
Haven't seen a tractor at the local bridge festival.

I was 3 when Santa brought me my first John Deere pedal tractor.
Is that winning a tractor? I literally ran the wheels off the pedal tractor.

I love my mom's Farmall C. Great way to remember her. A Great zero turn lawn mower. If you win it, I may buy it from you.
My boss loves mowing with the Farmall. I asked if she would want a Kubota ZTR? NO WAY!!!

tractorkrum · Sep 11, 2022

Not me! I am just a donor! I buy the tickets to support the clubs.

bwillett · Sep 11, 2022

I won this one at a Tractor Pull years ago in a raffle drawing...Does this count???

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Gene Davis (Ga.) · Sep 11, 2022

How about inheriting one from a friend, will that count?

KSmark · Sep 11, 2022

Sounds like a double win to me.

KSmark · Sep 11, 2022

I like that looks good.

Majorman · Sep 11, 2022

Way back in the day I won a colour television set in a raffle for the Royal Naval Association. I sold it and turned it into a Ford Cortina Mk 2 which served me many years taking me on my first motoring trips into Europe, driving down to Austria.

560Dennis · Sep 11, 2022

No ! Whats it like ?

KSmark · Sep 11, 2022

Drawing is at 2 pm today.Put a couple tickets in for a friend also.Told him to answer unknown phone numbers around 2 just in case.

David from Kansas · Sep 11, 2022

Yes, won a 1936 running John Deere A at the Fairview, OK show sponsored by the 2-cylinder club many years ago.
Irony was that I already owned a nice '36 JD A, but I was thankful and always buy raffle tickets when at the show.

Turkeyfoot · Sep 11, 2022

I saw a good looking Farmall (M or H, couldn't tell) at a suburban home close too K15 and 31st in Wichita. Was that yours?

KSmark · Sep 11, 2022

Not mine live in Topeka do have a Farmall H though.

Jimmydog · Sep 11, 2022

Not yet, but there's always hope; I bought ten dollars' worth of tickets yesterday at the South Haven show. Drawing is this afternoon, so I can dream about owning a Ford 8n for a couple more hours.

Fingers crossed,
JD

greenmech · Sep 11, 2022

I won a John Deere pedal tractor once. Ron MN

formerly ny bill · Sep 11, 2022

does a JD lawn tractor count? my wife won one in a NY Farm Bureau Foundation raffle many years ago.

Kansas4010 · Sep 11, 2022

I haven't went to the Power of the Past in a few years. I doubt anyone actually wins. You ever notice they don't advertise or name the winner from the previous year. I just assumed it's a scam. Similar to the JD Gator drawing a few years ago at the Topeka farm show. It was an older model Gator and it was the same one every year. Finally someone won it when enough people started complaining. Ironically the person who won it worked for the company that was raffling it off.

chcase · Sep 11, 2022

Not yet, Have donationed alot over the years. Our local club have raffled about 14 tractors over the years. Now we have cash raffle as more people prefer cash over a tractor. We draw the winning tickets at the end of our fall show. We have kids from parents who didn't buy tickets pull the tickets out of the wheel.By Wisconsin law we send a form into the state each year and need to keep all sold and unsold ticket stubs for 2 years.We published the winners names in the paper.

used red MN · Sep 11, 2022

Really, you are going to call out fellow antique tractor enthusiasts as scammers. You my friend are putting a black eye on the general ideal I have of the rural population of my home state. A couple weeks ago I attended a show about an hour North of the Twin Cities in Minnesota. They were raffling off a restored Ford 3000, I bought 2 tickets for a dollar each. They threw them right in the normal cylindrical basket deal they crank around and then draw the winner from. I went on a Saturday, the drawing was to be a 4pm Sunday. I am certain when the time came they pulled out the name and yelled it out to the crowd. A good chance someone there would have known the person who won. You placed your phone number on the ticket and if you were not present they called you. Still incredible to me that you think a fellow tractor enthusiast would scam you. I am sure there were likely many folks who put in a lot of volunteer time to provide you a venue of entertainment that is to your liking. You turn around and take a big stab at them. My two cents.

Kansas4010 · Sep 11, 2022

People are people, some are good, some are not. I've lived in the same small rural town I was born in. I can tell you for a fact this rural town has some of the biggest crooks and liers you can imagine. Majority of those people are farmers. They'll stab you in the back faster than you can imagine if there's money in it for them. My dad died when I was 10 years old. Before he was even in the ground they were banging on the door wanting my mom to sell the ground. Maybe things are different where you live but nothing would surprise me here.

Bob Bancroft · Sep 11, 2022

Toy lawn tractor at John Deere Days in the early 60's.

old-9 · Sep 11, 2022

I won an 8-N at the Fulton County Power show some years back, gave it to the neighbor's kids. Still have their thank you letter. Did I mention it was a pedal tractor? joe

Peat · Sep 11, 2022

My wife won a cub cadet at the local Fireman's Carnival 10 years ago, we didn't need another mower so we gave it to our church.
Have been going for years buying chances on cars, motorcycles, freezers, grills and the like. First time we ever won.
Good cause though, will continue to go and donate as long as we can.

muleboss · Sep 11, 2022

(quoted from post at 13:05:27 09/11/22) I haven't went to the Power of the Past in a few years. I doubt anyone actually wins. You ever notice they don't advertise or name the winner from the previous year. I just assumed it's a scam. Similar to the JD Gator drawing a few years ago at the Topeka farm show. It was an older model Gator and it was the same one every year. Finally someone won it when enough people started complaining. Ironically the person who won it worked for the company that was raffling it off.

Just so you know. They do give it away, You assume but call folks out as crooks just because you assume. They do not need people like you there anyway. Best show this side of the Mississippi.

rick n ohio · Sep 12, 2022

I won a formally cub at a tractor show about 20 years ago

Leroy · Sep 12, 2022

One show around here they put list of all previous winners in next years program book. If not ther for drawing then next year you found out who won. Other show that gave awat one only sold tickets at onr location the show and drew the winning ticket at end of Show. This show I worked the pull for probably 20 years. Anouther show that the club I belong to usded to give awat a tractot and we sold tickets a lot of different places over the year, that show was first of year and winner was drawn at end of show season at club meeting and then winner called. Club quit giving away the tractor because there were only us 2 familys anymore that would even weok on selling tickets even at our show let alone take tractor to other shows to sell tickets on it. My late wife and I did that for several years at a show 170 mile from home and friend reletavie was the one that got stuck hauling it to shows for ticket sales all year.

Kansas4010 · Sep 12, 2022

That's why I question the drawing. There is nothing posted anywhere about a winner. No picture of someone posing in front of their new shiny tractor. Nothing on their website or even names posted at the next year's show. I have no doubt they have a drawing but for all anyone knows it might be somebody's brother in law. I haven't been there in years but I never saw a sign on any tractors saying they were the previous years winner. The tractors just drop off the face of the earth after the drawing. I've been burnt on enough raffles maybe I've become jaded about them.

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