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Scenes from 2007 Steam Threshing Days at Heritage |
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The grain
threshers are ready. |
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The engines are
ready. |
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Threshing with 6
grain threshers concurrently. Matched by engine and thresher: 1. 22 Wood Bros Steamer 30” Wood Bros Separator 2. 18 Greyhound Steamer 32” Greyhound Separator 3. 28 36” 4. 20 28” 5. 50 Case Steamer 36” Case Separator 6. 12-25 Avery gas
Tractor 28” Avery Separator |
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110 Case pulling
16 bottom plow. |
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Shelling corn
with 22 Minneapolis Steamer pulling a MM corn Sheller. |
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22 Return Flue
Minneapolis steamer pulling an Advance Rumely Corn
Shredder. |
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The sawmill
operating with both 44” matched blades cutting. Pulling the saw was a 26
Double |
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The Saturday
night barn dance |
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More fun from
the hay mow of the barn on Saturday night. |
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Bird’s eye view |
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Steaming the
bologna and sweet corn for the Saturday night feed. |
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Ready for
eating. |
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Milling Corn |
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Horse Plowing |
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Tractor Plowing |
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Inside the Fire
Station |
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Sorghum Pressing |
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The monument to
old iron. It grows each year. When will it reach the |
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Handy work of
the Heritage Park Blacksmith. |
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The
entertainment pavilion. |
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Engineers and
engines getting ready for the Parade of Power. |
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The parade is
underway. |
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Tractors on
display. That’s |
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A look inside |
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Norwegian Stabur and totem pole. |
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Couple of the
log cabins at the park. There are some 40 buildings at the park now. Each
building with it’s own unique character. |
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Some of the
steam engines used at the show. 12 production steams were exhibited at this
year’s show. 5 scale model engines were at the show. Steam is used to power
most of the equipment with the shingle saw being the only exception. |
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18 Huber which
didn’t quit get done in time for the show. As you can see, it will be a show
piece when it is completed for next year’s show. |
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More steamer waiting their turn to power the machinery. |
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26 |
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The biggest
steamer at the show was this 110 Case. |
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The smallest was
this quarter scale Case with lots of engines in between. |
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More photos will be
posted later. |
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