A way to spend a rainy day.

IaGary · Nov 9, 2008

Went to the National Toy Show in Dyersville Iowa yesterday. Too wet to combine and I needed the break.

1000's of people there. This is just one room of vendors. Had to be over 200 vendors there. If you have never experience the show try to make it sometime. You do not have to be a collector to enjoy the tractors and toys on display.The last picture is one of the many farm scenes on display.

Gary

Don Hopf · Nov 9, 2008

Thanks for posting the pictures. I always wanted to go to this show. The MM farm display is really cool.

E.B. Haymakin' · Nov 9, 2008

LOOK at all the toys!

IaGary · Nov 9, 2008

Just few other colors.

Vito · Nov 9, 2008

Toy junkies heaven.Thank god I wasn't there.
Vito

Lucien cyr · Nov 9, 2008

I imagine that there is a lot of machenerie and implement that are hand made by the collector. Beautiful picture.

IaGary · Nov 9, 2008

That corn elevator is hand made and fully functionable. Turn a crank and the corn goes into the crib. The farmhand loaders are all hand made as well.

Gary

jwal10 · Nov 9, 2008

Thanks for the pictures Gary. Wow the details, that barn is as detailed as a real one, The hours spent and the patience....James

Anonymous-0 · Nov 9, 2008

Last one is "The Star Barn" -- have a book that's a field guide to New England barns, but one of the few pics from outside the area is The Star Barn. That's how I knew the name.
http://www.thestarbarn.com/default.aspx

RusselAZ · Nov 9, 2008

Thanks for the pictures. Amazing stuff.

I was really surprised to see, in the second picture, a model of a Jayhawk hay sweep/stacker!! My dad had one, which had been converted to hydraulic. I still have the cylinder and cylinder carrier and several oak stacker teeth.

Driving and using one was a good way to learn how to back a trailer! We used it on a Farmall M. There was a add on oil tank for the hydraulic pump and getting good at raising the head coming into the stack with the "non-live" hydraulics took experience!

Thanks again.

rrlund · Nov 9, 2008

We stopped at the museum once,but never made it out to the show.

Stan - Florida · Nov 9, 2008

Gary,

Great pictures...wish I could have gone this year.

Stan

Joel VanSciver · Nov 9, 2008

Didn't get there this year. But I will be there next year.Good pics.

keh · Nov 9, 2008

Neat pics, Gary. I may need to put that on my list of places to see when in IA.

KEH

keh · Nov 9, 2008

Neat pics, Gary. I may need to put that on my list of places to see when in IA.

KEH

E.B. Haymakin' · Nov 9, 2008

I now have something to do before I die, and if I never get the chance I"m really gonna be mad.

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