953 nut 55,229 #1 Posted June 17 The “Big Show” started out as a small gathering To avoid any copyright problems, I will just print the first couple of paragraphs and give you a link to the complete article. First-ever Wheel Horse show: It all started with the Internet. From the pages of Farm Collector Magazine, August 2000 Big Show Started Small Well, not quite. But most tractor owners at the Wheel Horse show held in southern Pennsylvania in June agreed that the magic of online communication was the driving force behind the event. “This is the second year we’ve done this,” said Don Kane, a longtime Wheel Horse enthusiast. “We decided it would be nice to get together, and we were going to have it at our house, but we were able to use the South Mountain Fairgrounds here at Arendtsville. My father was a Wheel Horse dealer in the ’60s and ’70s, so I grew up with them. My son Jeff got interested and we restored a couple of tractors together. He had a website on the Internet and this brought people together. This is actually the first exclusive Wheel Horse meet.” Don, who was born and raised and still lives in Biglerville, Perm., is a project engineer with Pfaltzgraff, the country’s oldest pottery manufacturer. He is also the first president of the newly formed Wheel Horse Collectors Club, elected during an organizational meeting held at the two-day show. A dozen of the Kane family’s collection of Wheel Horses ranging from a 1957 RJ 35 through a 1963 33-R and a 1967 Lawn Ranger L107 to a 1976 D-160 were on display at the fairgrounds for visitors to admire and enjoy. This Link will take you to the entire article. https://www.farmcollector.com/community/farm-shows/wheel-horse-collectors-group-off-and-running/ 6 2 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
