On September 6th Vick and I decided to travel to East River (east of Missouri River), camp at the Mina Lake Recreation Area and then visit the threshing show in Andover on Friday. We didn't realize the number of tractors that would be there so I'll do several posts with pictures of the event. To give you an idea of the area, we drove past sunflower fields that were a mile long and probably nearly the same wide, cornfields that had to be nearly 1,000 acres and nearly ready for harvest. We are definitely used to central Illinois farming which is small compared to scope and scale of this part of South Dakota. To get an idea of where we traveled get out your atlas or search for a map of South Dakota online and type in Andover. If using a map, find Aberdeen (26,000 people) and go east on Rt. 12 and you'll see Andover (2010 population was 91). There were 4000 of us at the steam show on Friday which was wonderful and it was a great history lesson in ag technology.
Upper picture looked like the tractor I played on at Grandpa Schurter's farm. It's a Massey-Ferguson getting ready to be restored. This appeared to be in exactly the same condition as I remember the one on the farm. I'm counting on someone to correct my failing memory.
Vick found a restored version of the Ford she remembered driving. Hopefully someone in her family will see this and correct her if that tractor was newer than 1947.
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