Tired Iron to hold 22nd fall show

Antique tractor and engine show to be held Friday, Saturday and Sunday at club’s showgrounds

GENTRY - Tired Iron of the Ozarks will hold its 22nd annual fall show this weekend. And the show includes much more than just old tractors and antique engines. It offers an opportunity for young and old to see and learn about rural farm life in the late 1800s and early 1900s right here in northwest Arkansas.

Included in this year’s show will be old tractors and farm implements, antique engines, saw mills, antique household items and a fully-functional blacksmith’s shop. But visitors can also see how many of these old implements were used in daily life. Bundles of wheat will be threshed. Logs will be cut and planed into boards. Iron will be heated red hot and shaped with hammer and anvil into every-day tools. A field will be plowed. Tractors will be driven and demonstrated, with a parade of power at noon each day.

A new tool of interest recently donated to the club is a 100-yearold stump puller, with a winch powered by horse or mule.

The show will again feature its “driver’s ed” tractors, equipped with two seats and two sets of controls to allow new tractor drivers to safely learn the art next to an experienced driver. One of them, a 1940 Farmall B, is painted pink to promote breast cancer awareness. The club continues to accept donations to fight breast cancerin exchange for adding names of breast cancer survivors to the pink Farmall.

The club’s free people movers - tractor-pulled and speciallyoutfitted hay wagons - will be giving rides and shuttling youngand old around the 17-acre show grounds throughout the weekend.

A log cabin on the grounds gives visitors the look and feel of everyday home life in the region years ago. A large covered pavilion houses many unique farm items,and an antique home-furnishings exhibit building displays hundreds of donated household items as well.

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

As always, admission to theshow is free and everyone is invited to come out and learn what rural life in the region was like for previous generations.

Tired Iron of the Ozarks is a club dedicated to thepreservation and exhibition of antique engines and tractors.

For more information about the club or show, contact Glenn Smith at 736-2841 or glenntsmith1944@ gmail.com.

Information is also available on the club’s website: www.tiredironoftheozarks. org.

News, Pages 1 on 09/04/2013