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Title: Root River - Antique Power Show - Racine, MN
Post by: Nick on July 20, 2019, 12:15:44 am
This years show is featuring Case. Today was the first day with 110 degree heat index, so for a change I snapped a bunch of tractor pictures.

These were taken in the "feature building"

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Title: Re: Root River - Antique Power Show - Racine, MN
Post by: Nick on July 20, 2019, 12:16:47 am
This year's "raffle tractor" that I'm going to win on Sunday  :D  (between my grandpa and I, we have 25-30 of the 2000 tickets  :D)

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Title: Re: Root River - Antique Power Show - Racine, MN
Post by: Nick on July 20, 2019, 12:26:22 am
Outside of the "feature building" with more Case tractors

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Title: Re: Root River - Antique Power Show - Racine, MN
Post by: Nick on July 20, 2019, 12:32:19 am
1/2 Scale - Tom Terning Case

https://youtu.be/7tVuyj1si-4

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and what hauls it to the shows

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Title: Re: Root River - Antique Power Show - Racine, MN
Post by: Nick on July 20, 2019, 12:34:21 am
About the only action at the show with the heat

https://youtu.be/m3e80Re1ApM
Title: Re: Root River - Antique Power Show - Racine, MN
Post by: Nick on July 20, 2019, 12:42:54 am
Beautifully restored Titan 10-20

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Title: Re: Root River - Antique Power Show - Racine, MN
Post by: Nick on July 20, 2019, 08:47:07 pm
I was found drooling in this section many times... crawlers and dozers

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Side seat

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Title: Re: Root River - Antique Power Show - Racine, MN
Post by: Jim on July 20, 2019, 08:53:55 pm
Really enjoyed looking through those photos Nick.
Title: Re: Root River - Antique Power Show - Racine, MN
Post by: Nick on July 20, 2019, 08:58:34 pm
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Title: Re: Root River - Antique Power Show - Racine, MN
Post by: Nick on July 20, 2019, 08:59:31 pm
Quote from: Jim on July 20, 2019, 08:53:55 pm
Really enjoyed looking through those photos Nick.

Thanks Jim, I've got plenty more. None from today because two storms chased us out of there... but I hope to go back tomorrow.
Title: Re: Root River - Antique Power Show - Racine, MN
Post by: Jim on July 20, 2019, 09:28:35 pm
Post them up when you get time Nick, its nice vicariously being at the show :)

Very enjoyable.
Title: Re: Root River - Antique Power Show - Racine, MN
Post by: Nick on July 20, 2019, 09:36:17 pm
Quote from: Jim on July 20, 2019, 09:28:35 pm
Post them up when you get time Nick, its nice vicariously being at the show :)

Very enjoyable.

I always enjoy seeing what others have at their shows... interesting to see what is more common in different parts of the country/world

Here's some local tractors, MTM (Minneapolis Threshing Machine Co.) and Twin City (Minneapolis Steel & Machinery Company). The two merged with the Moline Implement Company of Illinois to form Minneapolis-Moline

Someday I will find a Twin City for my collection...

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Title: Re: Root River - Antique Power Show - Racine, MN
Post by: St Paul Steam on July 20, 2019, 09:40:36 pm
Wow Nick , that was a stroll down memory lane for me,  (thank you )the nearest tractor dealer to my grandparents farm was a Case dealer & they had a VAC , D.C. & a SC tractor, the SC was our best tractor & I drove it all the time. 😊
Title: Re: Root River - Antique Power Show - Racine, MN
Post by: Nick on July 20, 2019, 10:24:12 pm
Quote from: St Paul Steam on July 20, 2019, 09:40:36 pm
Wow Nick , that was a stroll down memory lane for me,  (thank you )the nearest tractor dealer to my grandparents farm was a Case dealer & they had a VAC , D.C. & a SC tractor, the SC was our best tractor & I drove it all the time. 😊

I met my grandpa at the show yesterday and he said the SC is one of the few tractors he regrets letting go and wishes he still had. Every time he sees one he talkes about the "chicken roost" steering. I don't remember him having it but he said he found a picture of him driving my brother and I around on it. I'll have to get a copy from him and post it up.

They were really pushing the raffle tickets on the VAC today as sales were way down from the high heat Friday and stormy Saturday... bad for them, but gives us some better odds if tomorrow is slow...
Title: Re: Root River - Antique Power Show - Racine, MN
Post by: Nick on July 20, 2019, 11:20:43 pm
A pair of homemade contraptions from the late '50's

Ford V-8 powered Farmall F-30 with two F-30 rear ends

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Title: Re: Root River - Antique Power Show - Racine, MN
Post by: Jim on July 20, 2019, 11:22:37 pm
Fantastic that all these haven't been scrapped.
Title: Re: Root River - Antique Power Show - Racine, MN
Post by: St Paul Steam on July 21, 2019, 07:03:47 am
Quote from: Nick on July 20, 2019, 12:34:21 am
About the only action at the show with the heat

https://youtu.be/m3e80Re1ApM
Great video Nick, you had a good vantage point,  I especially liked watching the "Dozers" maneuver through the turn.
Title: Re: Root River - Antique Power Show - Racine, MN
Post by: Nick on July 22, 2019, 12:23:09 am
Quote from: Jim on July 20, 2019, 11:22:37 pm
Fantastic that all these haven't been scrapped.

An older friend of mine tells me all the time how many steam engines he used to scrap  :'(
Title: Re: Root River - Antique Power Show - Racine, MN
Post by: Nick on July 22, 2019, 12:26:21 am
Quote from: St Paul Steam on July 21, 2019, 07:03:47 am
Great video Nick, you had a good vantage point,  I especially liked watching the "Dozers" maneuver through the turn.

We watched a few of them load up on trailers at the end of today, would have made some good video footage, but I'm sure it was bad enough for them having an audience (a few of them telling them how they should be doing it), so I kept the camera off them.
Title: Re: Root River - Antique Power Show - Racine, MN
Post by: Nick on July 22, 2019, 12:35:44 am
MTM tractor crushing rock

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPQkW52VFfM
Title: Re: Root River - Antique Power Show - Racine, MN
Post by: Stoker on July 22, 2019, 11:19:02 am
Loud .... but wonderful!!!

Some real work being done there for certain and for sure!
Title: Re: Root River - Antique Power Show - Racine, MN
Post by: Nick on October 04, 2019, 01:58:25 am
Finally had a chance to get some more video clips put together...

Steam powered sawmill

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usX0ZcxP8nA
Title: Re: Root River - Antique Power Show - Racine, MN
Post by: Nick on January 21, 2020, 09:34:28 pm
I was looking at the "forum stats" and couldn't believe the number of views that this thread has, so I dug up some more pictures from the shows previous years...

Here's some of the models that were there in '08, unfortunately I have not seen these at the show for quite some time...

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Title: Re: Root River - Antique Power Show - Racine, MN
Post by: Nick on January 21, 2020, 09:36:22 pm
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Title: Re: Root River - Antique Power Show - Racine, MN
Post by: Nick on January 22, 2020, 09:00:23 am
Found this one on a bus full of toys. Pictures are not the best as it was in a case, but then I spotted the tag... engine built by my grandpa's cousin  8)

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I believe this guy displays at the Baraboo show every year

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And the last two, note the tiny boiler/engine next to the air line... world's smallest MEC1?  :D

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Title: Re: Root River - Antique Power Show - Racine, MN
Post by: Nick on January 23, 2020, 09:01:48 am
Allis Chalmers was the feature tractor in '08

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Title: Re: Root River - Antique Power Show - Racine, MN
Post by: Nick on January 23, 2020, 09:19:16 am
The IH/Farmall and Oliver lineups

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and the John Deere lineup

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Title: Re: Root River - Antique Power Show - Racine, MN
Post by: Nick on January 23, 2020, 11:13:25 pm
Twin City

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MTM

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and a Minneapolis

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Title: Re: Root River - Antique Power Show - Racine, MN
Post by: CBWho on January 24, 2020, 12:25:50 am
I saw the field of orange. AC was so innovative. For gas tractors, if I was going to get one, I would get an Allis Chalmers. The WD45 is an amazing tractor.