HOSTING THE EDGETA NATIONAL SHOW
and featuring
International Harvester Tractors & Equipment
If attending, please fill out a RSVP form below (scroll down).
The Threshing Bee is held each year the third weekend in August (for 2012: August 18th & 19th) at the Huntley Project Museum of Irrigated Agriculture and is the highlight of the club’s yearly activities. This is the time of the year when the club members bring out their latest restoration of a tractor, stationary engine, or demonstrate their expertise in blacksmithing, binding grain, threshing, sawmill operation, as well as operating tractors and steam engines.
In addition to the things that used to be done on a farm at the threshing bee, the members also compete with each other in a slow tractor race, where the slowest tractor wins! They also demonstrate their tractor skills in a barrel race, where antique tractors are used to push a barrel across a finish line. A tractor balance, like the teeter-totter that we all played with in grade school only for a tractor and his driver, also demonstrates the operators’ skill (and luck!). For the smaller kids, the members sponsor a kiddee pedal tractor pull, where the younger set can test their strength and skills. About the middle of each day of the two-day threshing bee, a parade of power is held, where each mobile piece of equipment is paraded and shown off to the spectators. A thresher lunch is available at noon each day. Musical entertainment is also provided at the Threshing Bee.
If you are planning to attend the Saturday Night Dinner, exhibiting at the show, or need RV parking; please fill out the RSVP form.
This form can be mailed to:
Ken Amann
4343 Wells Place
Billings, MT 59106
or emailed to:
Ken Amann – pgramley@bresnan.net (Please put 2012 Threshing Bee in the header to ensure we see your email)
Questions: call Ken at 406-652-5973 or email pgramley@bresnan.net
Please return all forms by August 6th, so we can accomodate everyone. Looking forward to seeing you there!!
