2017 Union Thresheree Symco, WI

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My first but not last

http://www.symcoutc.com/Thresheree.html

Enjoy!

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I just realized I posted this in Europe shows   if a one of the staff could kindly move it to the proper forum  @T-Mo, @Sparky, @TT @Terry M

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38 minutes ago, WHX11 said:

I just realized I posted this in Europe shows   

 

Going in the wrong room seems to be a new habit for you.

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1 hour ago, WHX11 said:

I just realized I posted this in Europe shows   if a one of the staff could kindly move it to the proper forum  @T-Mo, @Sparky, @TT @Terry M

 

All set 👍 .

  Mike....

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My phone was all but useless on the grounds so I didn't carry it all that often. I'll have to wait until I get home tonight to post more pics from my camera. I can how ever post this nice shot of Jim taking our Allis G out for a ride. That old rig behind him was used to drill a new well during the show. The well will be used to supply water for the new shower house.

 

 

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1 hour ago, Achto said:

wrong room seems to be a new habit for you.

 So what Dan is talking about is in his picture above just to the right of the oldddd well rig are the showers.   So I goes in Sat nite to hose the dust off and I errantly went in the women's side instead of the mens!  I says to this gal I think your on the wrong side....she says no you are you need to be in the side that has the short  name.... oooppps I says I did that on purpose.... figured the women's side was cleaner!

 

A few more shenanigans.... A real nice guy, I think his name was Pat but I called him sharpie all weekend cause he borrowed a sharpie from me to make a sign,  camping right across from us had this neat economy with tris on the back gives Dan a ride ... needless to say this did not end well as the sulky? if you call it that had issues with Dan's weight dumping him on the ground for a nice digger! I was too busy laughing to get the shot!

Rest of the weekend he had a tie down on it to keep from bending!

Dan gets consoled by his Sophie for the misshap!

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32 minutes ago, WHX11 said:

if you call it that had issues with Dan's weight dumping him on the ground for a nice digger! I was too busy laughing to get the shot!

 

Pat did drive a ways before he realized that I fell off. The good news in that mishap was that I didn't spill my drink. 

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Pulling... lots of good pulling going on and you could tell the club had done this before... two eliminators  going on the same track so one puller was hooking up while the other one pulled. Made for fast action and no sitting around!

BTW Dan brought back a trophy for 1st in 3500 lb Antique. Not an easy task looking at how many tractors in that class!

I like this shot...note the angle of the fronts.

Fronts off the ground!

Dan's SIL also won a 1st in class with and outstanding run!

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Nice photos guys. Looks like a great show!

 

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BIL...not so well ....kinda choked out at 55 ft! ...guv issues we believe

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Got to meet fellow member Tom @Deadguy, see his fine herd  and even some seat time on his 701.

A pink dressed granddaughter got some seat time on his wife's @Blondeflutterby pink tractor!

This youngster sure did take a fancy to Dan's rat rod!

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1 hour ago, WHX11 said:

 

This tractor had to go threw some surgery the week before the show as it had sat a while. The magneto was giving us issues so we sent that out for repair 2 weeks before the show.. The gentleman doing the repair said that it would take him longer than expected & gave us a mag to use until he was done with ours. A fully unexpected service that proves once more why I like my tractor hobby. After installing the new mag and cutting my head open when the crank handle popped off of the shaft & spun in my hand, we noticed a popping sound coming threw the air cleaner.  Not good. This is what we found, note the 4th push rod from the left.

 

One of the valves had seized causing the push rod to bend. I freed the valve by tapping it in with a hammer then working it back up with a vise grip. Several times of doing this & the valve worked like new. The push rod (which was shaped like a S) we straitened in the press, then finished straitening with a hammer on an anvil. $0 repair. Guess we should've put some load on the engine before the pull, then we would've known about the gov issue.

  

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Great photos guys ...   Looks to be a very good show with lots of different colors. 

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Weather was really nice Jeff. ....couldn't ask for much better........ and cooled off at nite....little warm and dusty in the heat of the day but oh well! We were sweating like hogs on a spit Sunday morning loading up but Dan's niece kept us in plenty  cool with ice water!

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Finally able to post some of my pics

Every year the club lights up their bridge to show their feature tractor. This year for their 50th annual show the feature was Wisconsin built tractors.

 

I tried to get 1 pic of each brand of tractor built in WI to share but, I guess I didn't realize just how many there were so I'm only gonna share a few. I'll start with one that shares our states name.

 

Many know the orange Allis Chalmers tractors, green was actually the color of early Allis tractors.

 

Case also started out using green paint.

 

Wallis tractor, built in Racine WI.

 

Samson.

 

Fox forage equipment.

 

The Lauson & Eagle that Jim pictured at the beginning of this post were also WI built tractors along with numerous others.

 

A few other things that caught my interest. This saw with a hit miss engine.

 

 

On permanent display on the grounds is their collection of 2 stroke diesel Fairbanks Morris engines. They have from a single cylinder engine through a 6 cylinder engine. Each cylinder on these engines have a 12" bore with a 24" stroke. These engines were formally used for prime power generators. Pictured is the 3 cylinder engine, it produces 225hp at 300Rpms.

 

A black smith camp.

 

Night time entertainment on Fri was the "Nitty Gritty Dirt Band", it was a good show just seemed a little short. Sat night the we enjoyed music played by "Road Trip" a local cover band that put on a great 4hr show. Like Jim said, the weather was great & it was cool at night which made for good sleeping.

 

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Awesome Dan.... Cindy wants to do a scrap book Dan so don't  delete anything. She is mad there are no pics of her on a tractor but promised nextime! Friday nite fellas ther was fireworks over the bridge to equal any fourth  of July!!!

So the announcer at the pull says when when Dan was pulling "he has been pulling here for yearssss!"