21st annual show Friday-Sunday at Tired Iron grounds

— Tired Iron of the Ozarks will hold its 21st annual fall show this weekend, with plans for this year’s show to be bigger and better than ever.

Old tractors and farm implements, antique engines, saw mills, antique household items and a fullyfunctional blacksmith’s shop will be at the club’s showgrounds for visitors to see.

Also on display will be a 1940 Farmall B, painted pink to promote breast cancer awareness. The tractor is one of two tractors equipped with two seats and two sets of controls to allow new tractor drivers to safely learn the art next to an experienced tractor driver. The club is also accepting donations to fight breast cancer in exchange foradding names of breast cancer survivors to the pink Farmall.

The club’s free people movers will be giving rides and shuttling young and old around the show grounds throughout the weekend.

The show opens Friday morning and continues through Sunday afternoon at 13344 Taylor Orchard Road, between Gentry and Siloam Springs. Plenty of signs point the way.

As always, admission to the show is free and everyone is invited to come out and learn about rural life in the region in the first half of the 20th Century.

Tired Iron of the Ozarks is a club dedicated to the preservation and exhibition of antique engines and tractors. Many of the engines are set up to demonstrate farming equipment.

But there is more to the 17-acre show grounds than engines and tractors. There is a log cabin exhibiting how everyday life was in the early 1900s, a blacksmith shop with two forges demonstrating iron working throughout the show, a working 1900s sawmill, a large covered pavilion housing many unique farm items, an antique home-furnishings exhibit building displaying hundreds of donated items, an interactive antique rope-making exhibit that kids from 2 to 102 will love, and an RV park with more than 30 spaces.

For more information about the club or show, contact Glenn Smith at 736-2841 or [email protected]. Information is also available on the club’s website: www.tiredironoftheozarks.org.

News, Pages 1 on 09/05/2012