The 25th Huron Pioneer Thresher Reunion, 1986-09-03, Page 18PAGE A-18, THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1986.
Getting equipment to the show’s
the job of Ray Hallahan
They seem to appear each
years as if magic, those hun
dreds of tons of machinery that
thrill crowds at the annual
Thresher Reunion at Blyth.
Yet anyone who looks at the
size, anyone who watches the
lumbering pace of the giants,
anyone who looks at the huge
craters the steel wheels leave in
the earth, soon realizes these
machines didn’t arrive here
under their own power.
For 23 reunions Ray Hal la-
Ray Hallahan has been transporting equipment to the Thresher
Reunion for more than 20 years. He looks forward to his own
“reunion" with the owners of the equipment each year.
han of RR 3, Blyth has been
involved in getting the ma
chines to the grounds. Ray runs
his own construction company
now and his big float truck is
just the thing for moving the
giants.
But he started way back
when he was 17 years of age
with a borrowed truck. His
father Billie Joe Hallahan was
one of the founders of the
Continued on page A-19
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25th Reunion
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