Pictures from Missouri Valley Show at Boonville,Mo.

Here are some of the things I found interesting.
This is a Leroy tracked grader. Everything was manual. The lift was two long acme screws. You would have stout arms using it.
This is a real rare Big Bull tractor. There where very few ever sold and even fewer left.
This is a Thieman Tractor. They where a company in Albert City, IA. they where mainly a kit tractor. You could have them build it for you but most farmers just ordered the kit. This one has a V-8 Ford motor in it. The company could not get steel in WWII so they went out of business. This tractor is owned by a Husband and wife with the last name Thiemann.
Here is something rare. An Advanced Rumley steam engine in a tractor pull. It is the old fashion tractor pull as well. The kind where a man/woman steps on the sled every ten feet. It was great?? My friend and I acted as "weight" for several pulls. It was great.
A Aultman & Taylor 30-60. The rear wheels are over eight foot tall.
I really liked this old Allis-Chalmers tractor. I forget the exact model. It just caught my eye as it was a big old brute that was restored beautifully.
Nice A-C D-15 Diesel. I have seen them before but not many. This is another beautiful restore job.
This is a Best 60. I was told they where bought by Cat and Cat took the best of both machines and made the Cat 60 crawler. Nice machine with a husband wife team driving.
Real sharp late 1960s Ford pickup. As you can see it really shines.
Last picture. I just thought I would post this to show the kids how they are going to school the next snow day. LMAO I have the Grand kids believing that. My son is looking daggers at me right now. I told the Grand kids he was going to build one. LOL

To the Missouri Valley show. You have a great show. I really enjoyed myself there. We drove 300 miles to get there. You where lucky how the rain Friday night worked out for such a good cool day Saturday. You where real lucky in that no one was hurt when the horse turn style broke. The guy running it needs to go to church a few extra times for coming through that unharmed.

Only negative comment: LIMIT the darn ATVs, XUVs, and gulf carts. Make it so you have to be truly handicapped to ride one in the grounds. Many shows you have to have a state issued handicapped permit to have one at the show. Your show is not that spread out. It really PO me to have to look over the things as the drivers would just drive up and block the view for everyone else. At the afternoon parade there must have been fifty of the things lined up. Left very little good seating for those on foot. I guess I should have just went and got my pickup and drove it around with the AC and radio on.

The Thieman was built in Albert City Iowa.

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Great pictures, really like the shot of the grader!

Rick

The feature was Ferguson. I did not post any of them as most of us have seen just about all the models of them. The common tractors from JD, IH, and others are great but we have all seen them.
This fellow is from England. I also talked to Sam and he is from Ireland. So the show really drew them from all over.

Great photos - thanks for posting. Favorite is the old, rusty grader. Have never seen one like it... really neat.

Real nice pictures,but it's real odd you didn't find the time take pictures of the featured tractors.That was what this show was all about??????

Nice Guy I took over two hundred pictures. I just posted the more unusually stuff. Like I stated in the earlier reply. I felt that we all have seen a Ferguson TO20/30 or even a Ferguson 35. There where some unusual implements but those pictures where under a open shed. They did not take very well.

I like that Thieman. Never saw one with V8 before. Always with a Model A 4 cylinder.

Real nice pictures , I like the oddball stuff too . You can only look at so many farmall H s and JD B s . The golfcarts are out of hand here in S.E. Indiana too , seems every show ya go to there is 3 buttbuggys for every tractor and they just ride up and down the rows getting in everybodys way . Alot of them dont have much respect for folks that are walking , they talk about horse people what about golfcart people !!

I had a fan that was mounted on an old steering wheel-- I tipped it over and found the deacal thieman still on it-- it stood the test of time -- in the hoghouse about as long as it was on a tractor-- i sold it to a fellow tractor nut in missouri-- could it have ended up on that v-8 job?--- allways wondering if it was put on anything--

Sorry to diagree with you but according to the book "50 Years of Cat." the Holt and Best companies merged to become Cat. Both had track-type tractors and huge combines. One company was from Ca. and the other was from Peoria, Il. According to the book and a much later artical in the Kankakee, Il. Daily Journal the combine div. was sold to John Deere about 1936. Armand

Thanks for the pictures Old Iowa!
Boonville used to be my favorite show but there is an individual in that association that really hates garden tractor exhibits so I just don't go anymore. Nowadays, if I want to get yelled at cussed and treated like dirt I just go to work.

Thanks for the photos. And I agree, we all know what a restored TO30 or 8N or many others look like, it's the unusual stuff that I like to see. There were so many companies over the late 1800s and early 1900s that were only in business for a short time before they either went busted or were bought out by someone else.