Re: Some plow day questions.

Posted by LA in WI on November 19, 2009 at 09:27:27 from (71.98.10.133):

In Reply to: Some plow day questions. posted by Minnie Mo John 2 on November 19, 2009 at 06:14:21:

Several of us old iron guys got 8 tractors and plows together in '07 just to have fun.
Last yr we had 18 show up. Local 4-H club served the food and drinks and made about $100.00. A local newspaper reporter wrote about the up-coming event and then came and took pictures. One pic made the front pg of our local paper. Charged each driver $5 for porta-potty rent. This started lots of local conversations thru the yr. Local lady made a video of the event and we sold 20 of them for $5 ea.

Due to a rumor of a local show-off wanting to bring his 300 hp tractor next yr, we "originals" got together for a winter meeting. (We only had 20 acres for plowing.) It was decided to have 1959 and older tractors only.
We call ourselves "The Good Old Boys & Their Good Old Toys".
April of '09 a local sign company put up a big sign at the site, with date, etc. (Free, he's a tractor nut also). Again, another nice write-up in the paper telling about the event. We had 35 old tractors and plows show up, with 2 pulling people movers. We lucked out and the field was on a dead-end road so few traffic problems.
We counted 175 total attendance at noon, and 4-H made over $400.00...the kids were thrilled. Two locals brought generators. Host farmer brought a loader tractor for helping get plows off trailers. A local pilot and a neighbor lady flew over at the start (we coordinated by phone for timing) and took pictures from 500 ft; we had most of the tractors all in a row, with plows in the ground...it made for a powerful scene with the whole field looking like it was turning over at once(Found a 40 A. field this yr). The oldest tractor was a 1927 IHC 15-30 on steel so we had that at the lead. A very talented local man produced a video of the whole event, with aerial shots included which runs for 28 minutes. So far, have sold 72 videos at $10 each (we had to generate some income to pay for porta-potties and airplane rental) and the requests for this video still come in. We gave out over $500.00 to local food pantries.
It looks like for 2010 we might have 50 old tractors lined up already.
We have a few rules:
1. ALL tractors to be 1959 and older.
2. No riders on fenders or drawbar.
3. No tailgating.
4. Tractor owners do their own insurance needs.
5. You MUST have fun.

We are not a club, but might have to do so.

LA in WI

Member of "Good Old Boys & Their Good Old Toys"

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