Carlson's Tractor Treasures

We sell original farm machinery, construction equipment, and lawn and garden equipment manuals, literature, memorabilia, and signs.

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Post script - the Fendt, Valtra, and AGCO cans stayed in England. We ran out of time to figure a way to get them home. They are safe and out of the sun, so hopefully we figure something out by the next time we go.

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Came back with a nifty collection of toys again.

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For reasons known only to him, the middle kid decided to collect farm equipment neck ties. Amazingly we found these Field Marshall ties for the princely sum of 3 pounds for the pair.

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I returned from England with a pretty substantial library of operators manuals and parts catalogs for Allis Chalmers equipment made in the UK. Need to clear some space on the bookshelf.

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Once again, it was truly a pleasure being hosted by Mr. Stephen Moate, owner of Japonica Press. Here he is posing in front of his Low Green Farm sign. This farm has been in his family for over 400 years.

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A few more Tractor Fest pictures while I wait for the plane.

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Never in my life did I think I would attend a show featuring Zetor. And then that there would be over 60 there.

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Well, my phone seems to be cutting me off at two tweets a day. Here are a few more pictures from the swap meet at Tractor Fest from Saturday.

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A few more scenes from the swap meet at Tractor Fest.

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Sent a couple of tweets yesterday and the phone crapped out again. Back in London, so I'll catch up. Here are a few of the more exotic things I saw at Tractor Fest.

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Of course, the first thing we did was to hit the swap meet.

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Tractor Fest today. Couldn't tweet from there because there was no signal. I'll do some catch ups now.

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Checking out the local AGCO dealer this morning.

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It is very unclear how we are getting these home. At least we owned them for a couple of days.

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Stopped by the local AGCO dealer this morning for some souvenirs and to check it out.

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Delighted to once again visit the world headquarters of Japonica Press/Classic Tractor Books UK, and dear friend Stephen Moate.

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Stumbled into an antique show on the way north.

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Somehow found an antique show on our way north.

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Then visited the Moore seeder manufacturing facility down the road. My new friend says the buildings used to be a Claas dealer and these parts bins were moved over from the AC factory after they closed.

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Made a return visit to the former Allis Chalmers plant in Essendine.

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Got inside the building this time. A cabinet maker is on the end.