Portland show. a couple pictures

made it to the show yesterday with a buddy of mine. man was it hot and we left about 2:30ish. a good day about 2-1/2 hour drive for us.

a few pictures of the feature tractors Cockshutt/coops including the pedal tractor from Shirley's toys Never a huge Cockshutt fan but my grandmother had a model 50 wide front (row crop) and my grandfather had a CoOp E3 he farmed with (probably bought with the cash he couldn't spend during WW2)

i did not know or ever hear/see of the Gambles Farmcrest made by Cockshutt. my buddy said he remembered a Gambles department store in Warsaw IN when he was a kid. not sure if the same store or not.


saw all the tractors and watched a Co-worker run his tractor (old McCormick) on the threshing machine demo. thought one of the 20 something girls pitching the wheat into the infeed was going to stab the other girl with the pitch fork as she was not paying much attention. lol

walked much of the flea market area but not all. didn't see anything i needed. no IH 444 sales brochures and 12x28 rims are less $ elsewhere did not walk thru any of the knick knack buildings.

had ribeye sandwhich from the church but would have picked the pork from the exchange club next time (too dry) . a golf cart would be nice but i need to walk/loose weight.

Been there in past years, it's a lot of walking. So far today after a rain early in the morning the temperature isn't bad, 73 degrees and a strong breeze. Hope it doesn't get to the mid 90's as predicted.

Was there Wednesday with my golf cart. Great show but really hot. Like you, I left about 2:30. Last 2 years had to wait about a half hour because of the bottleneck at the golf cart pay gate. I realize unpaid volunteers are hard to find. The directors need to get their head out of you know what and hire some help for about 4 hours each morning at the golf cart gate. They are taking in thousands of dollars a day in just golf cart fees. This show has turned into a big bucks business and they need to treat it as such and be concerned about customer service.

Were there a lot of Cockshutts there?

Not really, but I did notice that the majority of them had original paint Does anyone here know what next years tractor brand will be shown?

about 30-40 probably as many as there were any other brand. although hard to tell since the others were very intermingled with each other.

we kicked around bringing a golf cart next year but there were places where there were golf cart traffic jams especially in the flee market areas. so maybe not such a good idea


a bit hard to walk around places as you had to watch you weren't going to get run over with golf carts or the tractor/wagon shuttle service swerving to miss golfcarts but nearly hitting people. I'm sure i ticked off some golf cart drivers as if i was walking along looking at something i wasn't moving out of their way. they can either wait/follow or go around. i'd never see anything if i moved for every golf cart. Sounds like a bit of venting about them but there were places where there were just too many of them. a bit dangerous really.