Went to the Shipshewana Flea Market yesterday. It's about an hour and a half drive from here. It is a big one, they sometimes advertise a thousand vendors. Been a couple yrs. since I've been able to go. Didn't seem like there was as many people there as in past visits. The only new thing I saw was glass block banks. There were a dozen on eBay when I looked. Most of them have been around for a while. I've never seen them before. Simple to make if you have a milling machine to cut the slot in the top. Add a decal, decoupage, or etch something on the face of the block and you have a glass block bank.
I'm postin the rest of my pics from the National Thresher's Reunion from last weekend. They featured Minneapolis Moline and Silver King tractors.
Plenty of Silver King owners brought their tractors. I've never seen so many Silver Kings in one place.
This is a gasoline powered Minneapolis Moline tractor. The early gasoline tractors weren't much smaller than the steam engines. Makes one think they put gas engines on steam tractors.
Anybody remember tractor pulled combines? This is a Minneapolis Moline combine from the '50's. It cuts a 6' swath. Compare that to the 30' cut of today's harvesters and one might wonder how they got anything done.
Blowin off some steam . . .
Lookin up at all the stuff on the top of the boiler.
You see all kinds of 'spoke patterns.' This one was the most unique.
Always thought a shot of the flames burning strong would be a great pic, but they don't open the door till its time to add more wood or coal. This owner left the door open and turned on the blower for me, but it didn't really get the flames 'roarin.'
A large dump truck replenishing the wood pile. Some of the stream engines burned coal, but I didn't see any coal piles anywhere.
This is the end of the this year's steam engine pics. Wasn't that bad, was it????? Consider yourself lucky . . . I could have invited you over for a powerpoint show . . . .
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