OT-Antique Acres ( Waverly , IA ) Power show

Posted by Randy-IA on August 26, 2007 at 10:02:20 from (207.177.83.197):

Hi All , I was at the power show yesterday and saw a tiny little cub cadet crawler on a trailer . It was the size of a garden tractor . In fact the hood looked like a cub garden tractor . I've never seen anything like it before . Was it homemade ? Couldn't find the owner to find out .

The show had a state plow meet which was pretty good . I learned a few more bit's of wisdom about plowing and hopefully shared some of what little I know about it too .

Later in the evening , they were doing a free fun pull on the track with a professional sled . No measurements made and everybody got to do a full pull if the tractor was big enough to get the sled moving . The lite weight JD-A's didn't do to well niether did the JD GP . The show was about AC's this year and there was a AC track loader there ( B-5 ? ) that the sled couldn't stop with the weight he had in the transfer box . Anybody could pull if it had a hitch so there was a OTR semi tractor that pulled which the sled stopped , a couple of pickups and at the end of the night they turned the lights out and pulled with three steam tractors one after the other . They put sawdust in the fireboxes to make sparks and opened the steam into the stacks I guess to increase the draft though the firebox . They were blowing sparks 40-60 feet into the air ! It was an incredible show of fire and power ! Those steam tractors didn't even get slowed down by that sled with the box full forward ! But he never dropped the rear end of the pan either . I was told that the Avery tractor , last year , pulled the front wheels about three feet off the ground --- That got some people pretty nervous ( Read engineer ) Obviously those 100+ year old tanks shouldn't have those types of stesses put on them under full steam . But the sled operator was a pro and got it lowered gently before comming to a stop . It happened because they hit a sticky spot on the track and it was unexpected . All was well that ended well .

Wish I had taken at least one of my tractors ! But it's a twenty+ mile drive and the steering on one isn't up to it and the tranny on the other isn't either . Sorry but I didn't have a camera with me so no pictures . Take care ! ...Randy

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• Re: OT-Antique Acres ( Waverly , IA ) Power show Dave Sherburne NY 16:49:59 08/30/07 (0)

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