Ideas for show

Well, at least I would come to see those!

The question is whether or not IH ever made any.

thanks to everyone for the in put. i hope to see a huge turnout of farmalls at the show this year.

if any one is interested in attending let me know and will get you info.

We also provide a couple hay wagons to hook to old tractors. They then provide free “hayride” tours around the show grounds.

A Baker fan (or better yet a PTO dynamometer if you can get one) is good too. At one show I visited last summer they had a large pump that could be belted to various tractors and steam traction engines. The pump drew water from a small pond, and delivered it thru a fire hose to a nozzle which shot a water stream in an impressively high arc back into the pond.

Key is to have something that can make the tractors work so show goers can see, hear, smell, etc old iron in operation!

Well I’ve visited a few shows that arrange for, advertise and feature an obscure or unusual tractor as a “headliner”, for example an MM UDLX or a Waterloo Boy. Or you can gather as many of an obscure brand (like Silver King or Lanz Bulldog). Or gather as many as possible
of an unusual tractor type, e.g. hi-crops or shop mules.

Here in western NY state (where winter seems to last 7 months...) a mounted cotton picker is always a novelty. One turns up in a 4th of July parade here every summer – few people even recognize what it is. Conversely if you’re in the deep south something like a “Sno-Go” highway snowblower, a highway dept plow/salting rig or an ag tractor modified for municipal sidewalk snow plowing (which are ubiquitous around here) might draw some attention.

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