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Our club members are dedicated to the restoration, preservation, and use of antique tractors, hit and miss engines, and machinery.

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–  Mow Day –

Mow day #2 is in books. We had help from the Key Peninsula Loggers Tractors, mowers, weed whackers, and food truck. It was a dry morning but mowing in the rain still happened for about 3 hours at the very end mowing started at 0700 and we were done by 1:30-2:00. We had 9 tractors 5 Club and 4 Loggers we needed all of them too. The rain didn’t disappoint us but it was wet for about 2 hours. The food truck was a great addition tis year A big THANK YOU goes out Stephanie from the Loggers.

Expect a few changes next spring. We need to have at least 10 tractors with bush hogs and any lawnmowers will be icing on the cake. I will be needing confirmations of those number to make this event as easy on all of us as possible, remember “Many Hands Make Light Work”. 

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– 2023 Kitsap Fair & Stampede –

The 2023 Fair is a wrap!!

Thanks to all who provide tractors, mowers, stationary engines, and displays. We had 8 Club members bring their pieces for equipment. We had everything from a bubble machine to a John Deere bicycle. The members that brought exhibits were:

  • Feature tractor was Howard Lindsay; Massey-Harris 101 Senior
  • Frank Stricklin; John Deere B and Bubble Machine
  • Randy King; provided the can crusher and hand operated corn sheller & grinder John Stageberg, faithfully manned the can crusher and Dale Hardesty, manned the corn sheller & grinder
  • Jim Cook; Farmall Cub w/ cycle mower
  • Tom Lundgren; Farmall 400
  • John Graham; Farmall 400 and his numerous small engines for display
  • Dwayne Dunbar; John Deere mower and bicycle
  • Dale Hardesty; Ford and a John Deere

We had 28 Club members come and tend our area during the week for a total of 294.5 hours.
Thanks to those who provided muffins and cookies for us so we could keep up our strength.

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Restored Allis 2-Pt. Sicklebar Mower 

With only 2 acres of hay to put up for some calves, Brad McCarty, Kinmundy, Ill., didn’t want to spend the money for a new mower. So when he found an old Allis Chalmers 2-pt. mounted, 7-ft. sicklebar mower laying in a neighbor’s field, he bought it for $300 and restored it. He uses it with his Deere 3010 tractor, and says it works great.

“What I really like about this mower is that it uses a gearbox to drive the sicklebar, instead of a wooden pitman arm which is found on most older mowers. Pitman arms tend to get out of time and break. A gearbox drive is much more reliable.”

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Early February 1923 Engineering photograph of an experimental Farmall tractor.

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Look for us in our local parades, community festivals, fairs, and anywhere we can show off our tractors, engines, and machinery.