Show Pics, Springfield And Wauseon, Ohio

WeirdDeere · Jul 4, 2010

I had a great time in Springfield, and then went to Wauseon, the National Threshers Convention, if I remember right.

It was great to meet a few friends from the web, a few others from offweb, and then a few others I hadn't met yet!

Thanks to Regan Oswalt, RandyT, Darren (Two-cyl in England.), Bob, and an amazing host of others that I met for having a great time (no insults intended to those I didn't list...it's a long one)!

I took close to 600 pictures total, so I can't show them here, but they're in my photobucket albums. I did shoot some videos too, but haven't uploaded (yet) As they're HUGE

First, photos from Springfield
http://s108.photobucket.com/albums/n8/weir...ringfield_2010/

And photos from Wauseon
http://s108.photobucket.com/albums/n8/weir...e/Wauseon_2010/

A 730D with sugar beet harvester!

Brandon

Anonymous-0 · Jul 4, 2010

I don['t know where you are from but 45 to 50 years ago there were thousands of acres of sugar beets in that part of Ohio especially say south of Wauseon. Then in the mid 60's the mounted beet harvestors were replaced by pull type units. When I was a kid in the 40's the beet companies would have movies on the "new mechanical beet equipment".

Wardner · Jul 4, 2010

Why can't that second John Deere stand on its own feet? Were all four tires flat?

flying belgian · Jul 4, 2010

Look closely and you will see it is standing on glass coke bottles. Advertising what great weight distribution the tractor has.

WeirdDeere · Jul 5, 2010

flying belgian has it close...

Many of JD"s competitors in that time kept saying that the two cylinder engines were inherently unbalanced or prone to vibration.

JD set up demonstrations with tractors running on Coke bottles, and not just running, but in gear, wheels turning.

It"s been duplicated at quite a few shows since, including this one, a model D...501 cubic inches running smoothly on four Coke bottles.

The pictured tractor wasn"t running in that shot, but I did see it running, and in gear. Got a video too, but not uploaded yet (if I can). He couldn"t leave it running in gear very long, as he had to babysit...they usually had a rope on the clutch lever staked to the ground for safeties sake, but this tractor was on pavement, and could not be staked.

Brandon

WeirdDeere · Jul 5, 2010

Thank you for that information...I did not know that sugar beets were grown here! (I'm in northern Ohio) I'd always thought it was further west for some reason.

Brandon

Leroy · Jul 5, 2010

They were at one time also grown in both Auglaize and Shelby counties here in western Ohio. Late fourties time frame.

John S-B · Jul 5, 2010

I think the Pioneer Sugar silos are still standing along Rt. 33 on the south side of Findley. I remember the beet trucks lined up there as late as the eighties maybe?

cadet trooper · Jul 6, 2010

Thanks WD I wanted to go to that Springfield show but had too much going on getting ready for vacation I only live 8 miles from there now I have to wait until 2012 because they only hold that there every other year.

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