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AGR538

10-15-2002 15:01:18

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I enjoy reading this site and have been given some great advice before on the ole H's. However, I need help of a different sort. Our County Young Farmer and Rancher group is considering an antique tractor show in the Spring of 2003. It is in the feasibility stages now. We are considering the spring so that we do not interfere with Fall shows that are more established and do not deserve competition. We also believe the antiquers that have worked on the tractors all winter will be ready to show off in the spring. Please provide any advice, checklists, ideas, anything that could help us build a great show for the community. This is totally new to us and our main goal is to give the community a little history of how the US became such a great nation, agriculture. Yes, we will talk to others who have planned shows in surrounding counties but this is a great way to get nationwide input. Thanks in advance and the location is Maury County Tennessee just south of Nashville.

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10-16-2002 01:23:47

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Re: Tractor Show Assistance in reply to AGR538, 10-15-2002 15:01:18

Looks like a bunch of good comments.

Insurance and Safety would be at the absolute top of my list.

I have a couple of suggestions from my 20 years of experience with my local show. Both are pertinant mostly if you have permant show grounds on which you can make improvements.

Be realy careful about taking donations of equipment. It may seem like a nice thing to take grandpas old implement. Trust me this can snowball to where you have all the people in a 30 mile radius "donating" all their grove bait. Your group will get stuck moving it every time you mow. We take 5 or 6 people the better share of a day to do this.

The other suggestion is similiar. If you have permanant buildings to store tractors have a policy about storing tractors. We have tractors we move in and out every year, nobody comes to care for some of these. There are a few that nobody seems to know who owns even.

These items may seem like a minor thing at the time but trust me they can snow ball to be a real problem.

oh yeah HAVE FUN!!!!!<;)

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Wayne Swenson

10-15-2002 20:11:37

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Re: Tractor Show Assistance in reply to AGR538, 10-15-2002 15:01:18

I have been involved with Lake Region Pioneer Threshermen, Dalton, Minnesota for 15+ years; the show is going to be 50 years old this coming fall!!
Suggestions: 1. Be sure to involve a large enough group of people (ladies, too!!) so no one person is stuck with doing most of the work. Be sure to have things for ALL members of a family to enjoy; from very young to the very old.
2. Designate a person to be in charge of each of the various areas, events, functions that you are planning to have at your show.
3. Advertise, advertise, advertise!! We use the internet, local & area newspapers, local & area radio stations. Tried TV but was VERY expensive$$$ 4. I have a 5-7 minute tractor-threshing trivia radio show worked out with our farm radio announcer that we do every other Friday from Jan-Sept. We give away show passes to the lucky call-in winner. This gets a lot of talk around the community and livens up the early morning for young & old alike.
5. Do you have a cable TV franchise in your town? There should be one channel designated for community-public usage; This is FREE and a lot of folks are watching what goes on in their community. They gave me the use of a camera this year and are helping produce a video to show on their channel AND so we can sell it as a threshing show promotion.
Let me know if I can assist you.

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Gene

10-16-2002 08:34:39

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Re: Re: Tractor Show Assistance in reply to Wayne Swenson, 10-15-2002 20:11:37

Wayne: So your one of the guys involved with the Dalton show? Great show. The first tractor show that "hooked me" was at Dalton. I started walking around the first time there and couldn't believe all the Farmalls lined up. I almost thought for a second that I'd made it into Heaven. Thanks for the memories.(as Bob Hope would say) Gene

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John (SC)

10-15-2002 17:47:22

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Re: Tractor Show Assistance in reply to AGR538, 10-15-2002 15:01:18

You may need a permit from the county.Youll definately need some type of insurance in case someone get hurt!

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RedTed/MO

10-15-2002 17:06:29

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Re: Tractor Show Assistance in reply to AGR538, 10-15-2002 15:01:18

AGR538:
First of all, safety first of all; Steven@nd is absolutely right about that!
Our own little local club -- brand new, county-wide, and (tractor-)color blind -- successfully hosted a first-time show a month or so ago,... about 40 tractors and most of them belonging to club members.
Smartest decision and biggest break? They piggy-backed their show onto an already existing community festival, so they took advantage of planning and publicity that was already in place, got into a really nice and well-organized parade, and then had a crowd that would have been coming into town for the festival anyway.
Look around and see if there's something you can attach to: a Chamber of Commerce promotion, a Spring House and Garden Show, maybe a county fair with a rodeo or a demo-derby, a country/western music jamboree; maybe the local high school has an FFA chapter with a spring dance or barn-warming event.
Good luck, and
Keep on wrenching red.
RedTed/MO.

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Steven@nd

10-15-2002 16:03:34

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Re: Tractor Show Assistance in reply to AGR538, 10-15-2002 15:01:18

I have no idea where one would start with planning a show, but can offer advice.

SAFETY FIRST. These tractors and implements were designed before OSHA was ever thought of. They do not have the safety features of the newer tractors. Have safety meetings with anyone who wants to exhibit and explain these things. Visitors should not be allowed to touch any equipment while it is being used or running. Speed limits of 3 mph or so should be enforced.

Sorry to go on about it, but safety makes any show a great one!

Also, don't be afraid to ask for help from the community, there are people in every community who will donate their time just to have a chance to work with finely restored equipment, and original examples of what they grew up with. Make sure that it will be accesible to the elderly, they love to reminisce about the old days.

I personally love demonstrations, I love hearing these old tractors work, and watching the equipment doing the job it was made for. If possible, plowing demos would be great. I'm not sure what else a person could do in the spring - threshing isn't really an option.

Good luck!

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AGR538

10-15-2002 18:35:37

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Re: Re: Tractor Show Assistance in reply to Steven@nd, 10-15-2002 16:03:34

Thanks, we thought about a plow day but that will have to come in the future. A plow day was another reason for having it in the Spring.

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Willie

10-15-2002 19:25:12

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Re: Re: Re: Tractor Show Assistance in reply to AGR538, 10-15-2002 18:35:37

Hey, Get us a show together, I live in wayne County, and would love to come to it. Your right, around here most shows are summer/fall, a spring show would be good- I think. Thanks, Willie

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