Past Newsletters of the Upper Midwest A-C Collectors Club

Volume 9                      Spring 2000                          No. 1

Articles:

·         Club member update – Larry Karg

·         Farm Power Show – Minneapolis Convention Center

·         Hutchinson Farm Show

·         Pioneer Swap Meet

·         Just Off the Cuff – Will Okeson

·         Orange Spectacular Poster – Larry Karg

·         Garden Tractor Pull – Bob Paulson

·         Family Page – Joan Paulson. A poem Joan wrote about her new husband, 20 years ago

·         Novotny claims 1000th trophy competing in tractor pulls

·         The Midwest Toughest Tractor? – Jerry Carlson

·         My State Fair Trip – Glen Mielke

·         Friends and Family Gather to get Work done – Mike Downing, Vern Downing, Gail Schipansky & Mike Winter

Ads/pictures of a :

·         Cokato Salvage

·         KWEO Productions

·         Fuel Cell Tractor

·         Steiner Tractor Parts

·         JR Collectibles - Allis-Chalmers Data Book

·         Fall banquet pictures

·         Minn-Kota Repair

·         Having problems shifting – Lloyd Werner, Elk River, MN

 

Volume  9                     Summer 2000              No. 2

Articles:

·         2000 Show highlights – Larry Karg

·         Upper Midwest AC Club displays at Washington, KS at Gathering of the Orange

·         Just off the Cuff – Will Okeson

·         The Allis-Chalmers B Tractor – Carl Neuman

·         Family Page – Joan Paulson

o       Watch your Caps

·         The Allis Connection

·         Announcing the Allis-Chalmers Fuel Cell tractor at the McLeod County Museum

·         Larry Karg and Gary Agrimson went to get the fuel cell tractor from the Smithsonian Museum in Washington,

·         I collect Allis Chalmers – Peg Liekweg

·         Growing Up with AC – Milford Smith

·         Letters from Members

o       Ben Rudolph, Medford WI

 

Ads/pictures of a :

·         Cokato Salvage

·         Orange Spectacular 2000 swap meet space will be $20.00

·         King’s books – Radnor, OH

·         Forest City Threshers Show – Litchfield, MN

·         Auction – Wayne and Beth Trouth Estate

·         9th Annual Orange Spectacular – 1959 D-10

·         Fuel cell tractor in the warehouse in Washington, DC

·         Loading fuel cell tractor

·         Larry Karg, Larry Jones, Gary Agrimson loaded and ready to leave Washington, DCJ R Collectibles

 

 Volume 9                      Fall 2000                     No. 3

Articles:

·         Thoughts from your Treasurer – Larry Karg

o       Indoor exhibit was it’s limit – over 100 displays

o       Around 200 tractors Saturday night

o       Swap area grew by 50%

o       Saturday night banquet’s speaker was Jerry Oxborough – Agco Corp.

o       Our church service was presented to us by our good members  Gilbert Vust, Arland and Carolyn Lepper. Their message and inspiration to us all.

·         Just off the Cuff – Will Okeson

·         All Crop Harvesters – Carl Neumann

·         ¼ scale Tractor – National Student Design Competition

·         Family Page – Joan Paulson

·         Raffle tractor (D-10)  in Parade – Hutchinson

·         Pedal pull results

·         Antique tractor pull results

·         Winners form the Orange Spectacular

o       1959 D-10 - Nancy Dobratz - Watertown, MN

o       2nd - $200.00, Jim Pagel - Fairbault, MN

o       3rd – Jim Terrill, Hutchinson, KS

o       4th – 1/8 scale AC WD – George Keithan - Mapleton, IA

o       5th – 1/16th scale AC WD – Jim Schurz – Plymouth, MN

o       6th – Video, Cyril Zimmer – Bloomington, MN

·         Letters from Members:

o       Charlie and Mavis Widlund

o       Grandpa’s Toys

o       Heritage Center – Hutchinson, MN

o       Elton Solseng – NDSU – Fargo

o       Dorothea Paul – Morton, MN

o       Jerry Oxborough – Willmar, MN

o       Rich and Mary Vondrak – Sioux City, IA

o       Ben Rudolph – Medford, WI

o       Will Okeson – Grove City, MN

·         Ideas –

o       Handling plywood

o       Plastic jugs make parts containers

o       Find hole in radiator

o       3 point hitch and making drawbar

o       Cleaning and suspending paint brushes

Ads/pictures of a :

·         Cokato Salvage

·         2000 Tractor Raffle Winner – Nancy Dobratz, Watertown, MN

·         Minn-Kota Repair

·         JR Collectibles

·         Upper Midwest Fall Banquet

·         WNG Fall Harvest – Arden, NC

·         Gathering of the Orange – Fort Mead, FL & Baraboo, WI

·         Orange Spectacular

·         WC on early 60 combine

·         B Allis and 60 combine with motor

·         Dual wheels on 60 combine

·         Fall banquet November 18th 2000, $11.00 per person

·         Orange Spectacular

·         Steiner Tractor Parts

·          Raffle tractor 2001 – 1957 D-14 with specs

·         D-19 with 72 combine

·         Gail Schipansky – WD with rollover plow

·         Orange Spectacular pictures

·         Arland Lepper and Gilbert Vust cutting wheat

·         Antique tractor pull

·         tractor display

  

Volume 10                             Spring 2001                          No.1

Articles:

·         Rear tractor tire size – clear as mud? – Ted Baisker

·         In fond memory of Keith Miller – Chad & Brad Becker

·         A Lifetime of Allis-Chalmers - Chad & Brad Becker

·         Just off the Cuff – Will Okeson

·         Did You Know Allis-Chalmers made the country’s first jet engines? – C.H. Wendel

·         My two WC’s – Carl Neumann

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Ads/pictures of a :

·         Cokato Salvage

·         Fall banquet pictures

·         Steiner Tractor Parts

·         Minn-Kota Repair

·         Allis-Chalmers book sales – Upper Midwest AC Club

·         KWEO Productions

·         Gathering of the Orange – Florida Flywheelers – Fort Mead, FL

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·         Farm Power Show – D 14

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·         J R Collectibles – The Little Orange Tractor

·         Saginaw Co. Tractor Parts

·         Upper Midwest AC Club spring meeting – April 22, 2001

·         Wacker Decals