Antique Tractor Show Farmall, John Deere, Minneapolis

As you start searching for a vintage or virtually any pre-owned tractor for your farm, there are one or two items you need to keep in mind. First, don't get carried away by nostalgia. Buying and restoring an old tractor may be a delightful pleasing pastime. Nonetheless it can also turn into a really expensive one.

Get a feel for the "golden oldie" days of agriculture at the 31st Annual Camp Creek Threshers Antique Machinery and Threshing Show. This DVD contains video and photographs of Farmall, International Harvester, and John Deere tractors, water pumps, a saw mill, a corn sheller, balers, steam engines, a miniature railroad, and other antique farm equipment. This years theme was Farmall, but there are many other models of tractors in the show. What show would be complete without a good old-fashioned threshing demonstration? From the 1800's to the early 1900's this was the way that the grain was harvested from the plant. An outfit would consist of a threshing machine and a separate tractor to power it. Wheat, oats, and other crops were fed into the threshing machine by hand and pitchfork where the grain was separated from the rest of the plant. John Deere, mccormick Deering, Allis Chalmers, Case, Rumely, Minneapolis-Moline, American Harvester, Oliver, Catepiller, and others can be seen. Several hundred gas tractors and crawlers and several steam engines can be seen in action each year. These are the tractors that ushered in modern farming to the United States. Besides the many pieces of equipment to be powered by these great machines there is also the daily parade of power which is always a great crowd pleaser. This DVD contains 3 videos. The exhibits video is 15 minutes long. The tractor show is 30 minutes long, and the slide show is 5 minutes long. That's a total of 50 minutes ...

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Prior to your starting to look for your tractor, be sure that you understand what you genuinely want. This may well seem overly basic, nevertheless it is easy to become side tracked and buy something which you didn't start out to purchase. Only once you are able to create a detailed listing of your requirements should you start your hunt. Don't forget to add your technical and performance requirements in the listing. Unless you know exactly what you happen to be searching for, how are you going to decide how and where to look?

If you are sincerely searching for a vintage tractor, be careful and not let enthusiasm run away with you. If you do, you may well be in difficulty before beginning your project. Rebuilding an antique tractor or other old farm implement is satisfying. But it's not an overnight project and it can get expensive very fast. Parts for many older tractors are available but some are tough to locate and may be on the spendy side. Original tires may be impossible to purchase and reproduction tires can cost more than your tractor. You may well find that rather than buying a project tractor, it would be just as enjoyable to purchase one that someone else has previously put all of the effort, expense and time into. Chances are favorable that you could acquire it for a lesser amount of money than the owner put into it, to say nothing about all of his labor.

Examine any tractor prior to deciding to acquire it. Is it simple to start and appear, solid and feel right? Are the tires in good shape? Is there any hydraulic seepage apparent? Do you observe any missing components or accessories? Be sure and give just as close an examination to any attachments. Last but not least, make certain that a vintage tractor seriously satisfies the needs of the job you want it for. It's difficult to go wrong with an antique tractor like a John Deere if you search carefully.