20th Annual Red Power Roundup, July 23-25, 2009

[thoffman]

Heading out tomorrow about 2:00p when the wife gets home from work. Going empty handed though going to be doing some visiting this weekend too. See you there!

 

[rrschmitt]

Hey Guys,

How about some picts of the show? Day 2 now and no picts!! Everyone must be too busy having a great time.

 

[thoffman]

No plug to the 'puter from the camara, but HELL YA' we're having fun!! Tractors up the ying-yang.

 

[proessler]

RPRU Awesome!!!!! Peder Monis ( Security Chief) was going to get a tractor count as of last nite.Got to meet Geezer, Howard Sell, Todd M. and a whole bunch more. Got a mower deck to show Matt G.,so he can haul back it to Rockford. Lots of things to see & do, so little time. More details later...

 

[aaytay]

Grrr.... Archive Bug.. Duck everyone!!

 

[aaytay]

This year's RPRU in Madison, WI was my first. What a great show!

There were cubs....

 

[aaytay]

There were RED tractors....

 

[aaytay]

and there were some REALLY COOL Scouts and <FONT COLOR="ff0000">I</FONT><FONT COLOR="000000">H</FONT> trucks!

 

[jbliler]

Did Kraig make it? Waiting for more pictures!!!!!!!!

 

[thoffman]

Nice meeting all of you guys at the RPRU, sorry I was unable to stp and talk to everyone. It was a HUGH show and I had one day to cover it all. As much as I like the Cubbies, I really love to old, off the wall stuff. Here's some of my RPRU 2009 shots........
The oldes know IHC tractor

A newer CASE/IH Tractor

Probably the rarest tractor there, a O-20 Orchard 20 "Prototype"

 

[thoffman]

Hand built "Salesman" samlpe of a Binder

The McCormick "Auto Mower" (The GGGGGGreat Grand Daddy of the Cub Cadets

Neat 1468 w/twin M&W turbos and metal flake paint job (For sale could be yours!)

 

[thoffman]

Of course you have to go to a IH show "In style"

And I had to stop and check out this Cat roadbuilding spread, a Cat D-10N and Cat 16M Blade

 

[dmerkle]

Pictures from this years Red Power:

 

[dfrisk]

TOM - That 1468 with the turbo's had a really mean BARK didn't it.

That LONE STAR is the first one I'd ever seen in person. Nice truck but I'm still not sure I like the look.

 

[kmcconaughey]

Jerry, yes I was there with Art. I took 260+ photos. I'll try to get some resized and posted today. The majority of photos I took are of red tractors not yellow and white. This was my first Red Power Round Up so it's not surprising that I took lots of photos of the big red tractors.

Here's a few starter photos.

Note the belt guard on the front of the Original on the right.

This would be one very scary tractor to drive! It looked like it would tip over in a slight cross wind.

I used to drive a 400 Diesel like this one when I worked for a local farmer when I was in high school. Of course it didn't look anywhere near as nice as this one...

 

[rpalmer]

Tom Hoffman,

I love that IH Semi tractor (Big truck!). It looks like it just drove out of a Batman movie.

 

[kmcconaughey]

 

[kmcconaughey]

 

[vthomley]

RPRU was good, nice to see some of you guys again.

Lotsa nice Cubs!

I made a bet with my son, he wanted to go see an IH 1066, and said we'll see them in a bit. We walked over to the Big Red Tractors and he mentioned maybe there are no 1066s there. Well I made a bet that I would buy him one if there was NONE there. I barely won that bet for we saw only 2...

 

[kmcconaughey]