Tractors and more on display during 22nd annual Crawford Farm Machinery Show

Gere Goble, Bucyrus Telegraph-Forum
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Roger Haas rides his 1951 John Deere B tractor toward the Crawford Museum of Agriculture at the Crawford County Fairgrounds on Monday. The tractor will be on display during Crawford Antique Farm Machinery's 22nd annual show, which runs Thursday through Saturday.
Roger Haas rides his 1951 John Deere B tractor toward the Crawford Museum of Agriculture at the Crawford County Fairgrounds on Monday. The tractor will be on display during Crawford Antique Farm Machinery's 22nd annual show, which runs Thursday through Saturday.

Roger Haas' 1952 Farmall Super C is not just an antique tractor.

It's the tractor his father bought brand-new in Galion, and used on the family farm just south of where Colonel Crawford schools now stand.

"I've restored it, and I wrecked it for him once," Haas said Monday. "He had it fixed."

That tractor is one of many that will be on display this weekend during the 22nd annual Crawford Farm Machinery Show at the Crawford County Fairgrounds.

"Our main project is to promote agriculture and all that good stuff, and how people lived years ago," said Julia Scheffler, who handles advertising for the event. "Just how agriculture has evolved, and yet we want people to remember the past, also."

Haas, a trustee of the Crawford Antique Farm Machinery Association, which sponsors the event, also will have a 1951 John Deere B at the show.

"The featured tractor this year is the White Corp., and that consists of the old Minneapolis-Moline, Oliver and Cockshutt tractors — all bought out by the White Corp.," Haas said.

The show starts Thursday, with opening ceremonies scheduled for noon. A few thousand people are expected to attend in the course of the three-day weekend, Haas said.

Full schedule of events planned

The highlight Thursday will be the pork chop barbecue at 4:30 p.m. The meal will be prepared by the Jefferson Township Fire Department, with chops from Center Street Meats. Most of the tickets were sold in advance, but some are expected to be available at the door, Haas said.

That's followed by a baked goods auction at 6 p.m.

There will be a kiddie tractor pull every day of the show, and on Saturday inflatable toys will be available, Haas said.

A craft show, flea market, garage sale and swap meet will be open all three days. Other daily features include a running shingle mill and the model train building. Food vendors, kettle corn and the association's own homemade ice cream will be available.

Roger Haas rides his 1951 John Deere B tractor toward the Crawford Museum of Agriculture at the Crawford County Fairgrounds on Monday. The tractor will be on display during Crawford Antique Farm Machinery's 22nd annual show, which runs Thursday through Saturday.
Roger Haas rides his 1951 John Deere B tractor toward the Crawford Museum of Agriculture at the Crawford County Fairgrounds on Monday. The tractor will be on display during Crawford Antique Farm Machinery's 22nd annual show, which runs Thursday through Saturday.

Members of the Colonel Crawford FFA have restored an old manure spreader, which will be on display during the event, then raffled off this fall, Haas said.

The antique tractor pull will be at 5:30 p.m. Friday.

Purse bingo a crowd favorite

Another popular event Friday will be purse bingo at 6 p.m. in the Youth Building. Purse bingo has become one of the event's most popular attractions, Scheffler noted.

A week ahead of the event, Roger Haas said almost all of the 400 tickets to the event had been sold.

A new addition this year will be the Big Tractor Games at 9 a.m. Saturday, said Dorothy Haas, the group's treasurer.

Although she wasn't sure which games will be played Saturday, possibilities include an egg-spoon race or a slow tractor race. CAFMA member Andy Williams is organizing the event.

The tractor poker run starts at noon Saturday. It costs $10 to participate.

"We leave the museum here, you get your first card. Then we go out to Lutz's on Crestline Road, it's got the big grain set up, we'll go in there and that's where you get our second card. Then we go on out to Colonel Crawford school and get the third card. Come back to Olentangy Road, cut across to Lower Leesville Road and come up past the cemetery there by the railroad," Haas said. After getting a fourth card there and a fifth back at the museum, whoever finishes with the best poker hand wins the pot.

A parade of antique tractors is scheduled for 3 p.m. Saturday in downtown Bucyrus.

Roger Haas unloads his 1951 John Deere B tractor outside the Crawford Museum of Agriculture at the Crawford County Fairgrounds on Monday in preparation for Crawford Antique Farm Machinery's 22nd annual show, which runs Thursday through Saturday.
Roger Haas unloads his 1951 John Deere B tractor outside the Crawford Museum of Agriculture at the Crawford County Fairgrounds on Monday in preparation for Crawford Antique Farm Machinery's 22nd annual show, which runs Thursday through Saturday.

The event wraps up with a tractor/truck pull at 7 p.m. Saturday. Registration begins at 6 p.m.

Admission Thursday is by donation, but $3 will be charged at the gate on Friday and Saturday. Children age 10 and younger are admitted free. There's an additional charge for grandstand events.

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