Trucks, Tractors, and More

This year's Antique Truck Show was fantastic, with more vehicles than we have ever seen. It was their 25th anniversary celebration and not only did fleets come from our local area, but also from other states and Canada. As always, there were also vendors, tractors, engines, cars, and many other types of vehicles that participated. Dave and John brought up several of Dave's creations that we use around the property during our trail rides, including Dave's bicycles, the manure spreader driven by the Farmall tractor, the ever famous Cyclops, and this, the latest invention...the Jolly Trolley pulled by the David Bradley.

 (Thanks cousin Chuck for this great photo!)

Here are a few more photos of our favorites:

This Worthington Chief had two seats!

Chain driven early 1900's dump truck.

 Look close at this photo and you will see that this Sterling still has chain drive and it's from 1947.

 This fleet came all the way from Ontario Canada to be a part of the festivities.

A classic hit at every show is this fleet of petroleum delivery trucks through the years.

This is the way to go...two trucks for the price of one! (FYI it only costs $1.00 pp)

 

 How would you like to keep this spectacular trailer polished?

Our manure spreader that Dave turned into a cart (aptly named the 'Party Pooper'), also doubled as a picnic table!

Photo op of the day. This senior citizen stopped to rest on the Jolly Trolley. This show brings out so many people of all ages, but seniors led the pack.  I'm sure this annual event brings back many memories.

Property Projects

Fall has its share of fun events, but it also means cooler temperatures for maintenance and projects around the property. Dave and Jim started out by reorganizing what was once the motorcycle showroom, but has now been aptly dubbed the museum.

Then the two of them loaded up Jim's trailer and took a trip to the scrapyard. This put closure on the re-possessed house (it has been sold...yay!), since a lot of the junk was from replacing items there this spring.

 

 

Dave and I just completed the drainage ditch on the side of the house, which will hopefully help this winter. Last year we had many gallons of water that seeped into the cellar (thank you again Jim and John for sopping up all the mess!).

It's hard to believe that Dave dug the whole trench and five foot deep drywell hole by hand...and shovel, of course. I had the easy job of running the New Holland, removing bucket after bucket load of dirt, then pouring in the gravel over the drainage pipe that leads to the new drywell. I even found a foundation block joint that had no concrete which added to the water intrusion. All the cellar window wells will need to be covered so the snow and ice don't accumulate, and hopefully this issue will be solved.

Our concrete sidewalks behind the house still need to be replaced and repositioned, along with another drainage ditch, but time is growing short here in the northeast, so it may have to wait until next year. We'll soon be wrapping things up and heading south!

THE Big Weekend

Every fall we look forward to the weekend after Labor Day because it is packed full of events. We managed to attend every one of them this year.

Friday...Adirondack Nationals, Lake George Village:

Saturday...Tugboat Round-Up, Waterford:

Sunday...Rice-O-Rama, Massachusetts

Monday...Guptill's last car show of the season, Latham

I have only included a very small sampling of the photos taken of each event. I have been using so many photos that the blog has only been putting a few of my posts on the main page. However, please remember that the rest of my previous posts are in the archives at the bottom of the page. I don't want you to miss out on any of our adventures. Enjoy!