Vintage Iron (a lot of pics)

[putsie]

Back around Sept 10/11 I was able to take in the annual Threshing bee and antique tractor pull at the Sukanen Ship and Pioneer Village museum, just south of Moose Jaw Sk. As always a good turn out and a lot of fun. The museum grounds covered with sheds of vintage tractors/equip/stationary engines etc... and they put on an excellent show every year second weekend of Sept. If your ever in the area or want to take in an excellent weekend of revisiting prairie, pioneer life, I'd reccomend checking it out. Hear's their website, though it doesn't do justice to what's there..... www.sukanenmuseum.ca/

You won't find many old row crop tractors around these parts but it's always neat to see what comes out of the wood work...




















Gotta love them old single cylinder Field Marshall's, one of my personal favorites.



These things were a tractor kit you could order and assemble with your own choice of power train. This one was powered by a Model A Ford engine.


I don't know if this is legit or not. I've never seen one but I have no reason to believe it's not legit. This was driving around with the matching auger in tow. Kind of a neat set up.



Massey Harris #20



Oliver







Some of you may remember this WD 9 from a post last year but I had to go back for some more pics and a visit with this guy. This is a Turbo'd WD9 as you can probably gather from the custom scoop on the hood. My connection to this rig is that I built the engine for him. He added a turbo (of unknown origin) and a "bigger" pump off a McCormick TD series crawler. The engine was a restored standard WD, but after talking to him that day he said he'd like to get me to do a Super WD for him next with the intention of adding more turbo.

He's still waitng for an appointment on the dyno. I can say this thing makes impressive power for being just thrown together..... and sound just plain cool.

[70ds]

Love the pics. I like seeing all those old standards. They are less common around here. I would like to hear that turboed 9 running. I bet it sounds sweet.

[Southern]

Thanks for those great pics. Saw slot of cool equipment.

[putsie]

Thanks guys, I love taking in these kind of shows. This one's on my event list each year to attend. Hoping to get down to one in Scobey MT next June, been too long since I was last at theirs.

Clayton, I guess I'll have to try and get a video of it pulling next year. He did a full pull in the Saturday tractor pull, 175ft on Sunday (200 is a full pull, I'm guessing). Only other tractor that came close was a pig of a MF (pictured just above the Field Marshal pics, 18 or so down). He pulled 172ft.

[G&G farms]

i think it was classic tractor fever that did a show about the mayrath tractor they said that there wasnt many made but they were built just to pull the augers around

[jd3020]

that mayrath is legit.
i cant remember to much about them but it was on the praire farm reporta while ago

[evk]

That's a sweet lookin' WD-9. I vaguelly remember them in the rice fields a long time ago. In standard form, they must have been a hoss in their day.