Tired Iron Tractor Museum visit (long)

Posted by Steve Warfle on June 23, 2000 at 08:09:18 from (205.232.79.119):

I visited The Tired Iron Tractor Museum in Cuylerville, NY (near Geneseo, south of Rochester)on Fathers Day.

This place is awesome. The place doesn't look very big when you drive buy. It's right on Route 20A, and always seems to have a different steel wheeled tractor out front. They charge 4 bucks to get in, with kids under 12 free, and all I can say is this is quite a collection. There are 110 antique tractors, but not your average stuff. These were Marques I had never heard of. Most of the stuff was from the turn of the century til the mid 40's.

I've been threatening my wife to visit, and when she said we could go as a family anywhere I wanted for fathersday, I made true on my threat. The funny thing was that she really enjoyed it. I did have to carry my two year old, that limited my ability to take notes. Besides the tractors, there are old Trucks, assorted old tin signs (lots of them), Old gas pumps (some of those ones you pump the gas up into a Gas Jar, and then gravity feed into your car.

There was also a room filled with houshold stuff from the old days.

I need to go back and make a list of all the brands and stuf I saw. I'm buying a digital camera soon, and I think it will come in handy at the museum.

One of the really interesting tracors I saw was a Allis Chalmer engined (looked like a B engine) on a four wheeled rig, with all four wheels driven. The left wheels and right wheels were each hooked to a clutch arangement that was hooked to a set of reins, which was controlled like a horse! I assume you could hook up horse drawn implements, and drive this like a horse. The hands of Rube Goldberg were everywhere.

The only bad thing about the museum is that the descriptions of each tractor only included the origin of manufacturer, and the model and year. It would really be nice to know a little more. I am sure everyone of those machines could tell a heck of a story. Even knowing where the owner got this stuff would be fascinating.

The woman working dmissions told me that it was the work of a private collector....this collection is worht a fortune. The only strange part was that the tractor I use everyday (a for 2N) was in the museum (but on steel).

I faxed Kim a brochure to post in the list of Museums. If you get a chance, check this place out.

Take Care,
Steve

Follow Ups:

• Re: Tired Iron Tractor Museum visit (long) Bob M 09:21:50 06/25/00 (2)
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