How does your show do it?

It�s all about the memories for me. I�ve taken my tractors to a few shows and have a great time talking with folks about working with a tractor like the one we might be standing next to, when we were younger.

I do not have the talent to work on them, but it sure is fun to remember times when I was a kid on the farm over 50 years ago.

I put placards on my tractors telling the reader a little about the machine (year, model, hp ratings, quantity built, etc.). I also try to include information about the time frame of the machine to something we can all relate to, the cost of living! I think other folks get a kick out of reading what the price of things were when they are looking at my 75-year-old Case, or my 60-year old Farmall.

Dave Olson � East-Central Illinois

Ps: Our local club does not judge!

Irv

I do enjoy seeing these marvelous tractors with finishes many times nicer than factory, and awards for prettiest tractor are probably fine, but they are really not a necessary part of a true antique tractor show.

We have two shows a year. One is a working show with plowing, threshing, etc. No awards. The other is a parade, nicest tractor, just for show, with trophies. The working show is MUCH more popular drawing 5 times as many tractors and much bigger crowds.

I didn't find out I'd won it (and 2 others)until later, because I left the show early. Probably a good thing. As mad as I got, theres no telling what kind of scene I'd have made had I been there.

I mailed them back their 3 awards, my participnats plaque and button and a little note of what I thought about them and their award. I will never return to that show again. TACKY... TACKY... TAAAAA AAAAA CKY!

To think someone would drive a couple of hours, burn diesel at $2.25 a gallon, and sling chain loading and unloading only to be insulted is just a pitiful way to treat a guest.

If you want an ugly tractor contest then let them sign up for it and decorate their tractors and compete for it.

When you start judgeing the fun is gone...I was asked the difference between a car show and a tractor show...My answer was a car show a car nut guy will spend all his time shinning and afraid to sit down because someone might touch his car...Old tractor nut is playing games with his tractor and telling big lies (pulling 8-16 inch plows with a RC) cooking and eating and just sitting back and visiting with everone...Had my first show past weekend and the picture above tells it all..DON HENRY IS THE PROUD OWNER..

My particular opinion of judging is this. If it starts, then this hobby automatically becomes a battle of who has the deepest pockets. There would no room for fostering young kids to get involved in the hobby, because they would never be able to afford parts, or for theat matter, afford to purchase a tractor to restore. Common tractor such as JD B, Farmall H, and Ford N-Series would skyrocket in price, and the fun ends right there...

*Standing down from my soap box, and placing my two pennies on the box...*