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of the antique display for several years. Today it's part of the Ontario Agricultural Museum at
THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 3. 1986. PAGE A-19.
HEALTH CARE THROUGH
NATURAL MEANS
Douglas B. Palmer
D.C., D.T., F.I.A.C.A.
Queen St., 523-9321
Blyth Tuesday & Thursday afternoon
Milton.
It’s a reunion
each year to meet
old friends
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Reunion and he turned to his
son to help solve the problem of
getting the machines to the
show.
It’s a big job. It starts usually
about the Tuesday after Labour
Day and it can be a day and
night job to get all the machines
there on time. When the show
ends Sunday, the job is only half
done. Then all the machines
have to be hauled back. Al
though there is no deadline to
meet in returning equipment,
there’s still an urgency because
most of the owners don’t like to
have their machines out of their
possession for long because of
the possibility of vandalism,
etc.
There’s stress involved too
because, as Ray says, it’s not
like hauling a normal load. You
can’t just look in a catalogue
and find the replacement value
for something if it gets damag
ed. These are irreplaceable
items that are the whole life of
still living who built this
equipment.”
They are fascinating people,
down-to-earth, good-living
people he says and it’s like a
reunion for him each year to go
back and pick up their equip
ment and meet them again.
His job has been made easier
over the years by a lot of good
help he says.
Ray stepped down last year
after serving a two-year term as
president of the Association
himself and says he really
enjoyed it. This year, he feels,
the Reunion will be bigger and
better than ever. He finds
young people are becoming
more and more interested in the
machinery, both in terms of
joining the Association and in
terms of coming to the show.
When you have people coming
from the United States and
Western Canada to see the
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some of the collectors. Any
thing that gets broken has to be
made by hand.
Luckily, Ray says, he has
never had an accident in all
those years (he quickly looks for
some wood to touch when he
says that).
In a typical year he’ll haul six
huge steam tractors, 25 to 28
antique gas tractors and other
antique equipment up to and
including antique stonecrush
ers. As many as four gas
tractors canbeloadedonthe
float at once but each steam
enginegetsthetripby itself.
Often they have to be winched
onto the float.
By the time the show starts
Friday, Ray will have travelled
from Paisley and Chesley in the
north to Milton in the east to
Ailsa Craig in the south.
Sometimes the trucking job
can take a little longer because
the owners of the equipment
like to talk to him and though it
can be a minor inconvenience
he likes to listen. ‘‘Everybodyis
an individual with a story”, he
says. ‘‘Some of the people are
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Congratulations to all who^
have worked hard to make the 25th Reunion
of the Pioneer Thresher and Hobby
Association such a big success.
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