KANSAS TRACTOR CLUB Kansas Tractor Drive Set Issue No. 22 Spring 2018 The 6th Annual Kansas Tractor Club Tractor Drive has been set. Keeping in sync with past drives, this drive will again be the 1st Saturday in May. May 5th. This years drive will begin at the Central Kansas Flywheels Museum, 1100 West Diamond Drive in Salina across from the KOA campground. We encourage everyone attending this years drive to arrive, unload and line up prior to 8:30 am. If you wish to drop your tractor off the day or evening before, the club will make arrangements with CKF to leave the gates unlocked. There will be short drivers meeting at 8:45, with the drive starting promptly at 9:00 AM. This years drive will take us over backs roads to the west, eating lunch at the park in Brookville. After lunch we will wind around back roads, over some of the most scenic roads in central Kansas. The drive will include a break in the morning and one in the afternoon covering the 42 mile drive. Arrival back to CKF should be around 4 pm. List of things to remember Bring a sack Lunch. Your tractor must be able to maintain at least 10 MPH $15 entry fee for each Tractor Registration will begin at 8:30 the morning of the drive. Donuts and Coffee will be provided the morning of the drive Any riders must have a secure seat to sit on. No Riders on Fenders Bottle water will be provided. Prizes to be awarded. We welcome anyone and all tractors on this drive. The money raised from this drive will support The Kansas Tractor Club Scholarship and Restoration program. We hope to see you there. What is in this Issue Salina Tech Show set for April 7th Annual Meeting results Salina Tech Show set for April 7th - A 1953 Ford 50th Jubilee See the 3 Month Calendar Lunch With Tractor Members - Scholarships
2018 Salina Tech Vehicle Extravaganza The Salina Area tech show is our first big show of the year. April 7th is the date to mark on your calendar and the event. It is the show that the tractor club has been personally invited by the Salina Area Technical School to for the past several years. This 9th annual Salina Tech Vehicle Extravaganza should be bigger than ever. There will be a lot of cars, motorcycles and all types of trucks and fun for the whole family. The February annual meeting had another nice turnout. 56 people were in attendance. The food was good and the chance to get with other members was great. Many who attended renewed their membership and stayed for lunch. Special thanks to Ken Giersch for helping with collecting dues. The social time was to start at 11, but several showed up earlier. Plenty of food vendors, music and giveaways. Shows in the past have plenty of things for kids of all ages. Our show place will be in the grass just north of the main building. We will be parking next to the trees as we have in the past. Bring you lawn chair and your stories. As with all tractor shows, everyone with a tractor is welcome. We are always looking for new members. This will be a great time to join Annual Club Meeting Notes About 11:45 Board of Director, Dennis Stolzenburg blessed the meal. After the meal, President Cain Hiner called the meeting to order. He asked the members on the board to introduce themselves. Then he asked everyone in attendance to introduce themselves. Visitors from as far away north as Belleville and McPherson from the south. Jim Becker reported on the May Tractor Drive. Dan Helm, vice president, gave a treasurer report that the club has about $8000 in the bank. We heard from the Scholarship and Restoration committee chairperson, Mark Shaw. He asked everyone in attendance to direct anyone interested to the Club web the club or renew your membership. You can register on line at https:// fs30.formsite.com/ SalinaTech/Vehicle- Registration/ index.html. There is no cost for displaying your tractor site. There was some discussion about having a get together later as more of a lunch or just a coffee meeting. No place was discuss or date. A list of upcoming events were addressed including Cain s annual visit to Rush Center. The Salina Orschlen Show was moved up to April from June. Ken Giersch reported on several Orscheln Shows and still had to get confirmation on other locations. They have since been updated on the calendar on the Kansas Tractor Club Web site. Lunch Woes P A G E 2 Each year the Board of Directors of the tractor club struggle with how to provide lunches for the Tractor Drive. We have tried several ideas. In the past with the addition of bag lunch s, we have had catered lunch's, and cooks on hand to make burgers and dogs. Any catered meal must be preordered. The weather and no shows could cost the club money. If you have a solution to this, please contact one of the board members 2018 Calendar Events We are still taking events for the Kansas Tractor Club Calendar. Please contact dhem537@gmail.com or Amy Helm, kansastractorclub@gmail.com. Please include the date of the show, the hours and a brief description. If you have a web site, include the link in the email. If you have a brochure or a flier, please include that as well. If you have any questions, please let us know. All shows must include tractors or a parade that includes tractors.
Another Member Makes into Orschlen Calendar. A trip turns up a Ford Tractor. P A G E 3 Rae Luginsland traveled 1004 miles last year to area tractor shows including the Orschlen Farm and Home show in Salina, Fathers day weekend. He was showing his 1947 IH Farmall "B". At the end of the day and all the tickets were counted, Rae's Farmall B was the patrons choice. His picture was taken in front of the store and just after Thanksgiving, he was told that his picture was being featured in the Orschlen Farm and Home calendar for the month of February. Only 12 tractor winners are picked out of all the submissions throughout the Midwest. Only two winners from Kansas made it in the calendar this year. Rae attended the Tractor Club's February Meeting and became a member. President Cain Hiner introduced Rae to the club. Rae stood up and said he had a couple of things he wanted to share with everyone. If you want to shoot a duck, you need to sit in a duck blind. And if you want to make friends, you need to take your tractor to tractor shows. Some of the best friends he has made he met at these shows. Winning the best of show in Salina and then being featured in the annual calendar would have been enough, but the Hutchinson's News, local newspaper, told Rae's story; not in the back pages, but featured on the front page. Rae took it all in stride. And just when he thought it was over, he shows up in Salina for the annual Tractor Club meeting and Ken Giersch and Jim Becker insisted that Rae sign his calendar. Rae resisted at first, but gave into the request and signed. This could be you. But you won't have a chance unless you attend one of these shows. If you don't win, you will meet new people and who knows, you might make a new friend. Some of our best friends drive tractors. This editor went on a short road trip a few weeks back when the weather was warm enough for a person to want to break out of the house for a few hours. I thought a trip to Concordia with my wife and her sister would be the best medicine for cabin fever. After spending a little while in Concordia, we head back south and make a stop at my wife uncle s house in Miltonvale. Dick Taylor and his wife have lived at the same residence at the end of a dead end street, just on the edge of town for over 30 years. His backyard is fence line and trees and fields. He wanted to introduce me to latest find. It is a 1953 Ford. This was the 50th anniversary of the Ford tractor and the 50th Jubilee emblem is displayed prominently on the nose of the tractor. Dick knew the people who purchased the tractor new in it original Ford color red. After many years with the original owner, it was finally sold at an auction. When the new owner purchased the Jubilee and presented to his wife and she said that she would not have a red tractor in her barn. So it was painted blue. They had it for several years and needed to sell it. Dick had just sold a 5th wheel trailer at auction and heard about the Jubilee and was the lucky bidder. He brought it home and repainted it second time to the ford grey. The tractor has a plow attached to the rear. I recommended Dick to document the story.
Lunch with Tractor Members Scholarships P A G E 4 Around the first March, Kansas Tractor Club President Cain Hiner sent a request through The Clubs Facebook site to invite club members to Bayards Cafe on Broadway in Salina. The get together was set for March 10 at noon. 15 people made the lunch get together. This was not a meeting, but just a gathering of tractor owners exchanging stories and enjoying a good meal. Bayards is sponsor for the club. It was discuss about getting together in one of our neighboring towns in the very near future, but no date has been set. As the end of another school year approaches, many graduating students will be getting ready for the next step into college. The Kansas Tractor Club wants to help. We have a $1000 scholarship available to any student who will be seeking a degree in an ag related degree. The Scholarship committee will be awarding this money on or before September 15th. Please submit your application on or before July 15th of this year. If you think that the degree you are seeking is ag related, please go to the KansasTractorclub.com and click on the scholarship tab. If you have any questions, email dhelm537@gmail.com. If you have questions or would like us to send an application to you, please let me know.
P A G E 5 3 Month Calendar 4/7 April Salina Tech Vehicle Extravaganza, Tractor Show. Online Registration. No fee for non judging tractors. Setup by 9 am 4 pm 4/14 Orscheln Farm and Home, Ellsworth, KS. Tractor Show. Judging and Prizes 4/21 4/21 4/21 Orscheln Farm and Home, Salina, KS. Tractor Show. Judging and Prizes Chuck Sells Memorial Spring pull Dale Delong Farms 1420 Road 210, Emporia, Ks Rain Date 4/28 Kansas State Fair Grounds Boy Scouts function which includes showing tractors 1 pm 8 am - 5 pm 5/5 May Kansas Tractor Club Annual Tractor Drive. $15 for each tractor. Regis. 8 am Drive begins 9:00 am 5/12 Tractor Cade Sponsored by great Plains Antique Tractor Club All Day 5/19 TSC Vintage Tractor Show at Hutchinson 10 am - 2 pm June 6/2 Strong City Rodeo Parade, Cottonwood Falls 2 pm 6/2 Yoder Tractor Pull Yoder KS Call Bob Smith 1 pm 6/9 Orscheln Farm and Home, Hutchinson, KS. Tractor Show. Judging and Prizes 6/16 TSC Tractor Show in Pratt KS 10 am - 2 pm 6/16 Washunga Days Parade Council Grove KS 10 am 6/23 Orscheln Farm and Home, McPherson, KS. Tractor Show. Judging and Prizes 6/30 Orschlen Farm and Home Pratt KS Tractor Show Plow Day & Tractor Show Dale DeLong Farm 1420 Road 210, 6/29 6/30 Emporia, Ks 9 am 6/30 Lebo Car & Tractor Show Lebo KS 9 am
Kansas Tractor Club Newsletter Kansas Tractor Club 1547 N. Burma Road Salina, KS 67401 To: Organization List of Officers President Cain Hiner Vice President Dan Helm Treasurer Chris Helm Secretary Amy Helm Board of Directors Dennis Stolzenburg Jim Becker Ken Giersch Be sure to check out kansastractorclub.com regularly for news and upcoming events. Next newsletter publication will be mailed July 2018. If you would like to submit a story and/ or pictures for the KTC newsletter, please send it to dhelm537@gmail.com