The smell of burning firewood and coal is always in the air. The smoke hung around this year. I swear it was probably 10 degrees hotter on the infield than other places.
There is always a good size flea market behind the stands. You see all kinds of characters. I'm wonderin if this guy traded the kid for the flowers . . . or what ? ? ? I looked twice and I didn't see any little kid amongst the flowers.
There are large displays of older farm tractors, implements, old trucks, and garden sized tools.
When I saw this, I was thinkin that if I had a sizeable garden, I would want something like this. It turns in the middle just like the big ones.
A few feet down the display, I spotted this. A garden size Massey-Ferguson and a 5 bottom plow. It says it is a diesel on the hood. That would be soooo cool plowin up my garden with this. There never was anyone around when I went past it, so I couldn't get any details. I have seen other tools these tractors could use in one's garden at other shows.
Each year a different brand is featured. This year it was Case.
Steam tractors come in all sizes. The rear wheels of this one is at least 7 feet.
A couple smaller ones. There were several the size of the Massey Ferguson pictured above. That would be kind of neat workin your garden with one of those.
They all have whistles . . . sometimes more than one.
This internal combustion tractor was manufactured in 1924 and the restoration was finished in June of this year. Probably it's first show. Don't know if it runs on kerosene, diesel or gasoline.
Always lots of antique farm equipment at this show. I favor the red ones for some reason.
It is not often that I see old combines and corn pickers. I can remember farmers using one and two row pickers. Can you imagine using a one or two row picker to harvest 100 acres of corn.
Anything with tracks gets my attention. There were a couple small tractors with tracks.
This one was a two cylinder "Johnny Putt Putt."
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