July 17, 2006

• a few more pictures from Camp Creek Threshers....

  
  

  

  
  

  neat little tricycle tractor, single front wheel....

  
  

  

  
  

  This Avery had an unusual front steering arrangement, tie rods for steering are on top the hood. Allowed the front wheels to have much greater clearance...

  
  

  

  
  

  Neat little bulldog emblem on the front, reminds you of a Mack...

  
  

  

  
  

  This old Model T truck still runs, was converted years ago into a portable sawmill. The neat thing is, it uses a single cylinder stationary engine to run the sawmill, one very similar in size to mine...

  
  

  

  
  

  kind of a neat way to mount/use an engine like this. Crude but efficient.

  
  

  

  
  

  An early Minneapolis steam traction engine. Most people don't realize these were originally designed to be a stationary engine, they simply added the steering and drive mechanism to allow them to transport themselves to the fields. When they got there, they sat stationary and ran threshers and other equipment the farmers would bring out with teams. They would gather the corn or wheat or whatever, and bring it to the engine location....

  
  

  

  
  

  two more medium sized engines in operation. Neat to see them restored and operational. Amazing they can still pass a boiler inspection even after 100 years.....a testament to the materials used to make them, and if you think of the relatively crude manufacturing equipment they had to work with....

  
  

  

  
  

  This years feature tractor was Massey Ferguson and Massey Harris, and a good part of them were manufactured in Canada. They also made smaller garden tractors and mowers, and here is a lineup of Garden tractors, 7,8,10,12,14, and 16 HP. If you look closely you can see the HP number on the side of the hood....

  
  

  

  
  

  the next few shots are of license plates...this guy is from Wahoo, and has a plate for each year in Nebraska. This display board starts at 1915, but he had the leather plates inside back to '06, really neat display.

  
  

  

  
  

  

  
  

  these plates are from 1940, the capitol is raised on the plates, and this year they did not use numbers for counties,rather they did an alphabetical thing, using AA, AB, AC, etc. If you look closely to the right of the Capitol you can see them. They did the same thing in 1951, using letters instead of numbers... he has all but three counties, and has never tried E-Bay....go figure....

  
  

  

  
  

  this was all the different types of plates, some I didn't even know about...the fourth up on the left is R-123, this was a "Repossessed" plate they issued one year...some of the small ones on the right were motorcycle, motorcycle dealer, motorcycle trailer...neat stuff. Although that year they were colorless monotone drab plates....

  
  

  

  
  

  this was a bit unusual, in that he tried to get as many "6" plates as he could. He is from 6 county, so anything after the letters is only 6's...this was the year they did the "sunrise" plates, these didn't go over well, sinc they looked like the Japanese flag...a lot of WW2 survivors raised quite a fuss about it...

  
  

  

  
  

  Saw this in the flea market area, obviously built to be a guitar, but out of a bedpan? Looks like a prop from "MASH".....

  
  

  

  
  

  They has some neat cars out there too, including this Chrysler 1938 airflow. There were only about 850 made, and they think less than 100 in existence today... this one is unrestored, and had some ridiculous mag wheels on it, but otherwise was in good condition...from the side you can mistake it for an early VW or Renault...behind it was a 4 door Dodge pickup similar to one I used to have...

  
  

  more later......

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