[SEL] Portland Set Up Reconsidered

[steve sewell]

At 11:53 AM 2/5/2007 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi Luke,
>
>Are you smoking crack again?  PLOWING???  Get dirt on the tires of those
>shiny trailer queens?  I don't think so.  Hell, I'll bet most of 'em have
>never even put fluids in 'em.
>
>See ya,  Arnie


Yup, Arnie - Plowing.  As a tractor guy I think I might put in a nickles 
worth of input.
I am one of the few tractor guys that RUNS his 'engine with wheels' at 
Portland. I have plowed every year we were able to and ran the buzz saw via 
belt with my tractor all week last year!! (-;  Great fun!!
With the new set up the tractors are out back by the new ground the club 
bought so we can plow and maybe do other things one day. Also it is a 
direct path to the race track for the tractor parade they have started to 
have on Saturday. I would not even try to get to either the plow area or 
the race tack on Friday or Saturday from the old area due to the crowds 
walking in the roadways. The shaded area that was engine land is used only 
by the 'feature 'tractors  of the show. They could be moved out with the 
rest of the tractors in my opinion. The club bought 50 acres out there I 
think - plenty of room. The only part of the shaded area that maybe the 
engine folks might not get back would be a section back by the new tractor 
area that the saw mill could be set up in . That would give a little shade 
to those that want to set and watch the mill in action.
At a 'perfect' show the engines that can't move need shade. The tractors 
that can move ( at least those that have owners like me) need room to play.

Portland's only like 6 months away, I can't wait!!!!  (-;

Maybe I should surprise every and bring an engine along with the tractor 
this year??

- Steve


Steve Sewell
Albany, Ohio USA
sewell at atis.net
sewell at ohio.edu