What I Saw Today, Houston Miss.

I checked with 1sarge last night to see if the Fall show was a go and he was kind enough to call me and say that there were some tractors there. Not many but, a few, so I decided to get up this morning and head out to Houston Miss. 140 miles south and 3 1/2 hours drive. I left home about 5:45 and headed south through Jackson Tn. and south to Bolivar Tn. then south through Middleton Tn. and into Mississippi through Walnut, Ripley, Blue Mountain, New Albany, Pontotoc, and then Houston Miss.
As it got light, I noticed more and more yard sales along the road and floks waking up to move stuff out to the yard or scattered parking lots in towns that I passed through.
The dawn light was slow comming up as it was overcast but, didn't really look like rain, and mabey those folks that were preparing for yard sales knew for sure that it wasn't going to rain.
This is considered "first Monday week end" and those are key words for the big flea markets here in the south. There's a big flea market on the south edge of Ripley Miss. that looks like a large refuge camp from a distance. If you go there, you will not see it all in a day.
I made a mental note to stop at the Wal-Mart on the north side of Pontotoc to fill up on the way back. Gas was $3.38.9/10 a gallon for regular (10% ethanol). I also stopped at Auto Zone to get a couple of quarts of engine oil for spares (the old gray car is a couple thousand miles from a quarter million). Anyway, on to Houston. I got there and it was warm and muggy (humid). The light from the sun was hazy but bright, good light for photography

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One of the club officers announcing the tractor parade at 10:30

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Video is of a local chior singing the national anthem, "Good morning world, from Houston Miss." The thumping noise in the back ground is the big Fairbanks Morse engine running.
National Anthem

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The agraculture museum in the park (Joe Brigance Park)

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These young ladies were in a trance (before I took their picture)watching what or who is in the next photo

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Watching this young lady, Miss Mississippi, Outstanding Teen, 2012, Molly May
This is not the pretty girl on a pretty tractor but she will do!

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Video is of Molly May singing on stage at the Mississippi Flywheelers show
Molly May, Miss Mississippi, Outstanding Teen 2012

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Young lady was having a little trouble dealing with autisim and someone called 911

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John Deere "L" with different power plant

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Backing down ramp

Empire Tractor

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Engine owner wanted any information anyone might have on this engine. It has no name and mihgt be the only one built

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This engine is known but I did not get the name

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One of the tractor pull contestants

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Temporary fix for leaking head gasket, leaking coolant

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One of the entertainers on the stage singing "boot scootin boogie" and doing a very good job

Video is of engine being started. Engine used to be an old air compressor
It used to be an aircompressor

Making craklin

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ladies cleaning up containers for making craklin

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Video is of one of the men cooking craklin. You'll notice in the back ground, the old Fairbanks Morse thumping noise and a farmer talking about making hay (or not making hay)
Cooking craklin

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The old Fairbanks Morse engine

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Video is of the Fairbanks Morse engine running (thumping noise in the background of some of the other videos)
Fairbanks Morse engine

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Home made gas powered fan
Gas powered fan being started

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The real meaning of a bench seat

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Case tractor with a duster

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Home made steam traction engine

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Old German model boiler and demonstration engine
Boiler being fired up

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Video is of Cub running grinder
International grinder

Hope you like the Photos and videos. There are 111 files in all. If there is a praticular photo that you like, let me know (email is open)and I will email it to you

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in Boogie" and doing a very good job of it.

Nice pics and I enjoyed them very much. Thank You

Walt what can you tell bout this ? It looks homemade ? But very old ? Very neat piece .

I just noticed in the background . Are those inmates ? lol

You may be right about that unknown engine being a one-off. The water tank is made out of an old copper fire extinguisher. Very neat, thanks for posting all the photos.

Dave

Yep, those are inmates, they keep the park clean.

I"ve seen it at the Houston show before and I think it gets traded around. The folks with the home made steam traction engine on rubber tires have it. Maybe they will chime in here later.

1sarge, were you there? I kind of looked for you but thought you might be busy.

Thanks for the great pics and videos!!! What an interesting assortment.