By Rob Alway, Editor-in-Chief
SCOTTVILLE — The 51st Western Michigan Old Engine and Tractor Show begins Thursday, July 31 and will continue until Saturday, Aug. 2 at the Western Michigan Old Engine Club show grounds at Riverside Park.
This year’s featured tractor is the Massey Ferguson tractor. But, the show will feature a variety of equipment and displays.
The schedule is:
- Thursday, Aug. 1, 9 am. to 5 p.m.
- Friday, Aug. 2, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
- Saturday, Aug. 3, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Daily admission is $7 for ages 13 and over; veterans are $5. Kids ages 12 and younger are free. Thursday is seniors’ day with people ages 65 and older admitted for $5.
Saturday, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., is kids’ day and features a pedal tractor pull, valve cover races, scavenger hunt, bird house building and other activities.
Daily attractions and exhibits include antique tractors and equipment, antique lawn and garden tractors, stationary engines, a 1925 American LaFrance fire truck, a Kahlenberg engine, a Fair Banks-Morse “Z” engine, running saw mill with buzz saw, shingle mill and branding, threshing and bailing demonstrations, antique machine shop, Cooper-Bessemer engine, Franklin Valveless engine, corn shelling and grinding demonstrations, dowel making machine, blacksmith shop, drag saw and planer and Wilford power shovel.
Other events include:
- Dead-bolt tractor pull, Thursday, 5:30 p.m.
- Horse pull, Friday, 6 p.m.
- Garden tractor pull, Saturday, noon
- Tractor and garden tractor pulls all day Saturday, beginning at 9 a.m.
- Dead-bolt antique tractor pull, Sunday, Aug. 3, 10 a.m.
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