Oct 2007
October Greeting
10/31/07 Filed in: President's Corner
I missed the whole show at the fair but I have it on good authority that things went well and people had a good time. I guess that is all we can ask.
As I said, I missed the show because my wife and I were in Germany. I saw a lot of pretty countryside and a lot of tractors. The tractors were ones we don’t see much around here. There was of course Deutz but also Fendt, Lan, Porsche and several names I never heard of. I went to the Mercedes-Bentz Museum one day and saw two old Mercedes-Bentz monsters. We went to a man’s house who had a collection of about fifteen tractors with other stuff like a potato digger and things I have never seen before. I saw a guy restoring a tractor. He didn’t have a steam cleaner or sand blaster. He was doing it the old fashion way with steel brushes and scrapers. Most of the tractors there are small compared to ours with narrow tread and are used a lot to pull wagons up and down the roads and through the towns. In fact, you could not get my 75 HP John Deere through the towns. Anyway, I bet I had just as good an experience as you did at the fair.
Our next meeting will be at the Museum of Appalachia Tuesday the 9th about 6:00 PM. You may bring your exhibits that afternoon or even starting Monday the 8th. Do not bring them before Monday. THERE WILL BE NO MORE THAN TWO PASSES PER EXHIBIT THIS YEAR-NO EXCEPTIONS. The museum management says the passes cost them $20000. This really is not so and they have not thought it through. It would only be true if all of you bought the passes. I don’t think any of you would buy a pass, I know I wouldn’t. I don’t like the inference coming from the museum management and I am about ready to recommend we not show at the museum anymore. I sure want to hear from all of you on this.
See you at the meeting Tuesday the 9th.
James R Miller
As I said, I missed the show because my wife and I were in Germany. I saw a lot of pretty countryside and a lot of tractors. The tractors were ones we don’t see much around here. There was of course Deutz but also Fendt, Lan, Porsche and several names I never heard of. I went to the Mercedes-Bentz Museum one day and saw two old Mercedes-Bentz monsters. We went to a man’s house who had a collection of about fifteen tractors with other stuff like a potato digger and things I have never seen before. I saw a guy restoring a tractor. He didn’t have a steam cleaner or sand blaster. He was doing it the old fashion way with steel brushes and scrapers. Most of the tractors there are small compared to ours with narrow tread and are used a lot to pull wagons up and down the roads and through the towns. In fact, you could not get my 75 HP John Deere through the towns. Anyway, I bet I had just as good an experience as you did at the fair.
Our next meeting will be at the Museum of Appalachia Tuesday the 9th about 6:00 PM. You may bring your exhibits that afternoon or even starting Monday the 8th. Do not bring them before Monday. THERE WILL BE NO MORE THAN TWO PASSES PER EXHIBIT THIS YEAR-NO EXCEPTIONS. The museum management says the passes cost them $20000. This really is not so and they have not thought it through. It would only be true if all of you bought the passes. I don’t think any of you would buy a pass, I know I wouldn’t. I don’t like the inference coming from the museum management and I am about ready to recommend we not show at the museum anymore. I sure want to hear from all of you on this.
See you at the meeting Tuesday the 9th.
James R Miller