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�ndthefj Meeting
gneer reshe`r Mt Hobby Association in
n.3„ Bttt, he's,glad:he did:
"Bdl Joe Haliaban, who was going to the
.meet ng,. said 'come out and give as a band.'
{felt foolish because' I'd only sean two of .
:before,. But, I've never , been sorry
Ant* f just kept going tom,"'
MOHO .who *as one of tfie .four!
members of the reunion along with SSunon
19� .Beatrice Ilailahan back in the of
He's been a member of the Tbresher's
A ssociatton ever since and has Yet to miss
one of the .aaun.ti l reunigns Since the first
•
up.
However,
exeiti gas
At the:
reit
east
first', meet
rhe
,lie^. to a bad leg,
t
*Went every bit 44
a en4ed �', ; cBride.
ant Mhave.a.
Maudie and George McBride have been long time supporters of the Threshermen's Reu-
nion with Mr. McBride being a member of the association since its inaugural meeting in
1961. For many years, Mr. McBride has been drawing wood for the log sawing competi-
tion. Mrs. McBride has been going to see the craft exhibits as well as to take a few snap-
shots of the event for her photo album. (Alan Rivett photo)
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,99
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�sarto:the
ons den at the t eA.
Althoul a eir . were a meted the
members decd "get
here."
"We had no money. Mrs WhlhantPUt up •
the money forte tickets ma Me nbers
sold the,tiokets,fOr F1 The women ',in
free We didn't cl aFge Ole .one* because
there was nothnigr-eally"t :amusethem ' be
.said., .
The first ret#nioi collsistei1 of three or four
steam engines. including George,Searson's
Sawyek Massey threshing. engine which has
been. at the show ever since, .said Mr.
McBride.
He recalled, however, that not all the reu-
nion's were without incident. He .
remembered back five years ago .when -a
team of oxen in the parade started to run
away. Bob Thomas, a thresher owner from
the Paisley area, stopped the oxen with the
solidest thing he could find - namely, Mr.
McBride's truck. On a more humorous note,
his wife Maudie. remembers a team of
harnesses pigs which took part in the parade
four years ago. -
"The pigs were trained to pull the
cart,"she said."It was quite a thing to see."
Mr. McBride's fascination with the steam
driven threshers stems from' seeing the big
machines work as a child. His father, along
with all the neighbors in the area and the
man hired to do the threshing, would come
together to bring in the fall harvest. He said
the thresher could handle an acre of wheat
per hour.
The threshers were a fairly reliable piece
of machinery although he recalls the man
hired to thresh at the farm replacing a belt
or fixing a leaky flues which were tubes that
held fire to convert the water into steam.
However, by the time he took over the farm
located near Carlow in the 30's, the tractor
had all but replaced the threshing machines
which were then becoming even more resis-
tant to breakdowns.
"As the years went by, they corrected a AK
lot of the weak points," he said. "It was just ligr
like when they got the steam locomotive
almost perfect, then, they threw it away."
Although he never had , the chance to
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George McBride of RR 5, Goderich has.
been a member of the Huron Pioneer
Thresher and Hobby Association for many
years. At the 22nd annual reunion George
showed the skill and strength used to saw
wood
Best Wishes
to the Huron Pioneer Thresher
and Hobby Association on your
Annual Reunion in Blyth
Proud to be
working with the people
of Blyth and area
since 1952
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