The Largest Prairie Tractor Show Ever! 100+ Iron Giants Turn Out for Albany Pioneer Days 2024!

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[@lifeafterourloss]

Definitely a must-see show for any antique tractor enthusiast. I can honestly say it was sensory overload. The dedication it takes to put this together and move all of these large tractors is impressive! Appreciate the shout out it was great to see you there! 👍

[@brycewiborg8095]

This year is their 50th year. I've been going for 30 years. One day isn't enough.

[@imdeplorable2241]

Subscribed to your channel after a recommendation and a link from Squatch. Can't wait to see your work.👍

[@lifeafterourloss]

Much appreciated! The Squatch shout out is really helping out the channel. 👍​@@imdeplorable2241

[@LoggerLloyd]

So nice to see these old machines. I hope the next generations will keep appreciating the old machines. Great to see Aaron.

[@korywieber8397]

Thank you for attending the show Toby and bringing everyone along that could not be there. I takes the whole village to make this show possible. It was nice chatting with you again.

[@tmscheum]

Good episode! Really good to give a shout out to Aaron “Howdy Y’all” and hid Dad “The Cleaner” at their channel LAOL. Both channels put out quality content and deserve WAY more subscribers!

[@Pamudder]

It boggles the mind how much blood, sweat, tears and money went into this gorgeous collection.

[@stevea9604]

Absolutely…All volunteers too 😃😳🤓

[@RobertBrothersJr-dc7nr]

Squatch, what a fantastic display of prairie tractors. If it wasn’t for you bringing me along I would have never seen such a display. Thanks sooooo much. I absolutely love your channel and wouldn’t miss a single video.

[@karlfischer1011]

It was a great show & your video was edited well. It was a highlight of the weekend meeting you! Thanks for the short visit.

[@pinesedgefarm1155]

That was quite the show. Looking forward to next year.

[@normpowell3566]

If you really think about it, our Great Grandfather's used these machines to grow a crop to feed themselves and our Grandfather's. We are here today because of these awesome machines. Thank for sharing the video.

[@horatiohornblower868]

You’re definitely not the only one who loves old iron, Toby! Sadly most of these old brands have long disappeared but fortunately there are enough guys who spent time and money to preserve them. After all, these old giants fed America and a whole part of the world. We should be grateful towards them and their keepers.

[@arthurirwin8235]

A really great episode. Thanks for taking us along for the ride!

[@lordcaptainvonthrust3rd]

Thanks for taking us along, Squatch 👍

[@thomaspoeta6308]

Good grief Toby! Not ever in 1 million years would we be able to see all of the wonderful beautifully redone and Undone Tractors that you allow us to see with your walk around. Thank you so much we were absolutely mesmerized Tom and Peggy.

[@Barnzoid]

I grew up in rural Ontario - I had no idea of the huge variety of tractors from the past. Thanks squatch, for a look into our heritage.

[@dougkubash8673]

Tons and tons of old iron!! Thanks for sharing Squatch!

[@boe4448]

Thank you Squatch, Nice video of a great show. Love the prairie tractors and the transition from steam. So cool behemoths! Thanks to all the people who take the time/money to bring this equipment to a living history show for us to enjoy. Boe

[@geneguenther4325]

Thanks for the a video Toby! What a great turnout of prairie tractors that’s for sure! That 150 is sure impressive and got to see it 2 years in a row at the Burnett,WI show. Thanks again Toby!

[@SuperMAZ007]

Been subscribed to Aaron and the cleaner for a long time. They never leave me disappointed in terms of content. Just like You, Pete and Moline Dan. We had a guy locally who collected these steam engines and made them run. But unfortunately he passed at age 91. I'm sure he would have loved to see this video.

[@Jerrodplanck]

Mr Kelch has a beautiful tractor there. He has an awesome collection.

[@tonyx3768]

Wasn’t that his Titan at 2:56 ?

[@coinucopia]

Proof that machines can be alive.

[@markfischer5569]

It sure was a spectacular show! Thank you, Stearns County Threshers. Great camera angles, Squatch!

[@turnertruckandtractor]

Hard to imagine what a young boy in Oklahoma/Kansas/Nebraska would have thought seeing one one those huge steam engine tractors for the first time. All the innovation and manufacturing that went into those tractors is amazing. The farmers that bought and used them back in the day would have some stories. So appreciative to the folks that restore and maintain these pieces of American history. Thanks for documenting and bringing this to us Squatch.

[@paulsto6516]

The sounds are just incredible! Thanks for taking us along.

[@76RSLT]

I SO, SO wanted to attend but had other obligations I was committed to. Thank you for the video!

[@waltermattson5566]

That was very impressive. Thanks for taking us with.

[@davidkrueger2987]

Nice to watch this much old iron still running,cool 😎😎😎😊

[@Woody_Florida]

Thanks to this channel for filming this show and posting it for us! Much appreciated! I wish i had been able to go myself, but maybe next time.

[@gherkinisgreat]

Love to see these vehicles from the transition from traction engines to tractors

[@BillTheTractorMan]

We are really bummer we missed it. My wife had to work, and one of our kids got sick from school already. Glad you could share this great video, thank you!

[@rockisland444]

Awesome coverage of the show. Thanks Squatch!

[@johna7661]

I love a parade of these old monsters racing by!

[@timot7746]

Great machines there, thanks for showing them.

[@stevea9604]

The history those tractors have lives thru

[@ron827]

Love the ride-along and tnx for taking us along.

[@stevea9604]

That is such a great gathering of enthusiasm of keeping old near new 👍🏻🤩😎🤓

[@needsaride15126]

Some beautiful looking machines.

[@terrycannon570]

I love the old iron. My passion is antique machine tools. Lathes/Mills etc. Thanks for bringing us along. It's not just iron but the story of the men and women who made them and used them.

[@KennyKizzleRustyNutzRanch]

The tractor chassis with the sprocket between the rear duals is an experimental tractor, if I recall. They had a scale model of the engine there last year. It's a very interesting design. I want to say it was a four cylinder opposed-piston engine where 2 pistons share the same cylinder, and travel towards each other. They did have the scale model engine running at one point. Also. Kory Anderson has been working on helping Jim Briden build a 1/2 scale, exact working replica of a 60-90 Twin City. As of this last spring, the engine and transmission have been mounted on the chassis and are running. Needs the wheels and finish tin work. I believe the plan is to have it done for Rollag next year.

[@davidkimmel5153]

Thanks for taking the time to share this with us 🎉

[@paulmartin8212]

It is good to see a great turn out for a show like this. Wish I was there. Remember how smart we used to be as a country. Such innovation. Many kids today couldn't show you how to peel an apple without getting stiches! LOL Some boys think they are girls or cats or something else. Thanks for sharing a great piece of history with us.

[@josephwarner8349]

Sorry I missed you and your dad. I was there for the full 4 days. I drove my relative’s 1934 Farmall F-20 in the parade. We were in the line up with the 4 Fords.

[@scania357]

Thanks Toby really great show. Love the apple peeler.

[@stevenrapp3217]

What a Great Show!!!! Okay.....on my bucket list for 2025!! Many Thanks. Sure wish someone would invent Smell-a-vision.....Can't even imagine how wonderful it would be with all those beautiful machines belching and snorting around!!! (smile)

[@leonardaltig]

GREAT video!!

[@JamesJones-gk5jd]

All that old iron is so neat, great video

[@rogerallen6644]

Makes me VERY thankful for the 8370 Deere with auto steer when I’m chiseling. I’m very soft! 😂😂

[@jondavidmcnabb]

OK you have done your work as a teacher. I had to stop watching and Google "Holt Cat" and read the Wikipedia entry to understand the history. Thank you for making real life stuff a proper learning lesson.

[@kylechrist]

That's Cummins in that HD41 barely came off an idle to drag that 150 😂

[@squatch253]

Yep all you saw was just a hint of smoke and that’s all it took lol 👍😎

[@madmodifier]

I mean, the dozer weighs almost double that Case tractor and probably has a least double the traction.

[@kylechrist]

@@madmodifier exactly. It was all a show 👍

[@michaelbaumgardner2530]

Definitely a Dandy episode,it amazes me to see how far we have come it a relatively short time,and the first friction drive tractor I've ever saw...Topshelf Video.

[@jazzerbyte]

That Square Turn friction drive was advanced for the day, with the infinitely variable drive.

[@stevem3413]

Amazing job squatch I never knew that these existed thanks for sharing your knowledge

[@larrydavidson3402]

Sure hope I can make it to this show one year. Great video Squatch.

[@frankdodson3534]

Thanks squatch that was so kool loved it very much.

[@tarheelpatch3386]

Love seeing that Anderson foundry 150 Case repo amazing work.

[@mikewilson631]

Excellent! Next year? Yes, please!

[@Ckktopa]

cool, thanks for sharing to all the world!

[@markjurkovich7814]

Awesome!

[@davidhongkong5657]

Fascinating!

[@scotcoz]

Oh man how cool was that ! Maybe put info on some of this cool stuff you are going to. A heads up . Great post !

[@squatch253]

Here's the video I uploaded a month ago telling people about all the tractor shows that I usually attend, with the dates and locations of all of them - but not very many people clicked on it, unfortunately. kzbin.info/www/bejne/iGKYeqWJhNJ6ebc

[@scotcoz]

@@squatch253 thx that very cool

[@JustinBurns-w9n]

That was a great video. Keep up the good work.

[@mitchelleiden2000]

I do believe the Twin City 60-90 is one of two

[@jimwoidyla5139]

I grew up 25-30 miles from Albany, Mn. and have never been there. I now live in Rice Lake, Wisconsin.

[@ArnoldM-r3m]

Are you kidding me you filmed the o/s of the Bluegrass bldg. but you did not go inside. I am very disappointed. Great video and I hope you like Bluegrass as much as I do. From a Banjo player in Indiana. CHOO CHOOOOO.

[@samuelspade889]

I’m a city boy, but that’s some cool stuff, man!

[@benterbieten9540]

What a show.

[@gearsnstuff7330]

The 150 didn't ever stand a chance against the HD-41, but in did sound great under that much load, and I'm sure that the camera microphone just doesn't do it justice. Definitely cool to see them find an immovable object for the unstoppable force, instead of just towing things around with it again and again.

[@ironman3406]

I knew the short video I seen of the tug of war was an un true video - that hd41 would pull that 150 around the show grounds for hours and still hardly be working, I thank you for actually showing the truth of this tug of war, that being that the case 150 would not win like the other video portrayed it.

[@squatch253]

Yep, the whole reason for me choosing to stand down on the HD-41 end was because I knew if it was going to be a true tug of war, the 150 would soon be right in front of me lol ;-) But this was just an exhibition, meant to put the 150 up against the biggest load it has seen to date, and it was a success. A lot of people aren't aware of the mechanics of this matchup - the 150 was at a weight disadvantage, traction disadvantage, hook angle disadvantage, and also an inertia disadvantage in the fact that steam has the least amount of capability when taking off from a loaded standing stop. Steam locomotives are the same way - they can pull a train that they cannot get moving whereas a diesel/electric locomotive can get a train moving that it cannot pull - it sounds contradictive, but diesel/electric has the most power output at slow speed and loses it as speed increases, but steam has the most power output at high speed but loses it as speed decreases. That's why you can see a few instances where the HD-41 actually backs up to slack the cable when the 150 is struggling to initiate movement, because the operators all knew that the steamer needed to get its piston pumping before it came under full load - which I don't cry foul on because that's just the way those machines work. The HD-41 can generate near maximum pulling power without having to get moving first, so I consider that move a fair accounting of the handicap. I also didn't get into the semantics of the 150 pulling the dozer's 120,000lb weight because it clearly wasn't a dead-pull, we don't know if the dozer operator was lightly dragging brake or relying on powertrain friction to add rolling resistance to the tracks, the dozer was definitely not attempting a forward pull against the 150 with the exception of that one early move, and the 150 also had to cope with a higher hitch point on the back of the dozer which further decreased the 150's traction. In the end, we can't measure exactly how much drawbar pull was on display there, but they made the 150 scratch and spin wheels for a considerable distance which was an impressive thing to observe. I had made my way up next to the 150 after they unhooked and were about to drive away when a group of kids called out to Kory up on the steamer to give him congratulations and thumbs-up and Kory made sure to turn toward them and take some time to interact and thank them, which I've seen him do before and is probably the most important component of this whole scenario because those youngsters are the ones that we all hope we can pass the torch to someday - I tip my hat to that because positive role models are more important now than ever. But like @ironman3406 said, other videos that are out there might not offer a true depiction of the situation, and a lot of people don't have the knowledge to differentiate between what they've been shown and what they've actually seen :-)

[@johngibson3837]

​@squatch253 nice explanation thanks

[@clydeschwartz]

Excellent video that was a nice display of big prairie breaking tractors. Was there gas and diesel wheatland type tractors there too

[@squatch253]

Yes, they probably had about 50 of those newer type Wheatland/Standard tractors on site as well, in all different sizes.

[@mmm365]

Allis Chalmers HD41, 70 tons V12 Cummins. 💪🏻💪🏻 Weight like a Cat D10

[@Denis-tu1pd]

Really awesome video

[@tractorhyatt7044]

Great video of the Albany show! Those prairie tractors are very neat. How long before you have a prairie tractor sitting in your new barn? I will have to add this show to my "must see" list. Thank you for the early morning walk around of all the tractors. Glad to hear that it was a big successful turnout too. 🚜 👍

[@squatch253]

Thanks Hyatt! Although super cool, I personally will probably never own a prairie tractor because they are so highly sought by serious collectors and hold a much higher value than just about anything else.

[@davidcraven277]

Another must see is the Buckley show in Michigan where steam is the king of the show

[@kurtisharrington6015]

I see a prairie tractor in for future!

[@johngibson3837]

Hey up good reporting mate i really like steam traction engines especially the plowing one's with cable drum under boiler, seen them working as a kid in the 60s uk, two work together one on each side of field dragging the plough across with the cable good for not compacting the ground

[@sixtoes2313]

Squatch. Thanks for the tag alone.

[@richardwalters1803]

Great video

[@geneard639]

My Great Uncles told me those old solid cast iron wheels were all finished using hand tools after they got pulled out of the ground. Lot of hand cutting the metal to clean it up because of the cast in tread patters. I got no idea if its factual or not... but considering how long to make just one steam tractor? I can believe it.

[@wagon9082]

Good Video

[@user-pv5rg9sb9w]

I'm glad to see some Fairbanks morse motors. My dad works on a handful of smaller 208 Single cylinder Fairbanks engines that power pumpjacks out here in Central and Eastern Oklahoma. By the way I noticed that there weren't any videos from the caterpillar club in nowthen this year did you end up skipping that one. I love your caterpillar videos because I'm going to school real soon to be a mechanic for Warren Caterpillar.

[@squatch253]

Thanks! The Nowthen Caterpillar club ended up cancelling the dirt work demonstration this year due to heavy rains that created standing water throughout the digging area, so there was no footage created that weekend 👍

[@patreilly6826]

Unbelievable amount of history at this show. It makes you wonder how Much of it has been lost over the years. The biggest old tractor yard In our area was sold and cleaned out about ten years ago. The newer family members did not want to continue the scrap yard so all of it went into the crushers. Very sad over three hundred vintage red tractors and green ones went to the recycle yard.

[@nek542]

Entry 230 @ around 3:55 is super cool!

[@a.j.3633]

Made trip Sunday, few were gone or loading. But it was a great gathering of giants. The odd frame I don't believe has ever been identified. One Guy from show told me it may been an experimental 1 off situation. Really unique though.

[@hmsals]

It is a Kyes engine, only one built. Rudy Rathert owns it, a very interesting story was told to me about it.

[@danielbutler578]

They don't make them like they used to. I would like to see a lot of those tractors in person but I live in Tennessee and that kind of traveling is a little too much strain on my budget. Thanks for bringing us along for the show.

[@philipr7686]

Today, we have a celebrity 'crank' starter.

[@1murder99]

Wow!!!

[@terrycannon570]

Man that is a lot of work to peel an apple.

[@Pamudder]

I wonder if Altman-Taylor got a deal on some boiler tube sheets. LOL

[@stevea9604]

Imagine all the farmers didn’t know and suddenly had to learn…These were the space shuttles of their day…Mechanics weren’t really rural and there wasn’t anyone to call even if you had a phone…

[@JH-qi7fz]

West Allis vs. Racine!

[@thirzapeevey2395]

I would think the weak link in the Case 150 vs. dozer contest would be that cable. I don't know that I'd want to put either one in gear and pull for all I was worth, for fear of that cable snapping.

[@stevea9604]

Think this was the start of the Standard Oil company to allow them all to operate…

[@aserta]

I wonder if any Chase tractors made it. Probably too rare. :))

[@mmm365]

So "oil" pull, means in fact gasoline/petrol driven.

[@jameskelley8839]

Like watching dinosaurs stomp around!

[@dness3673]

There is a pioneer in makoti North Dakota. Show July 11-13 2025.

[@colinvoss8484]

You don't stop steam power.

[@brysonbryan9121]

Squatch, what qualifications does a tractor need to be considered a Prairie Tractor?

[@squatch253]

That is a great question, because everybody has a different definition of what the qualifications are. Broadly speaking, it's typically any early gas powered (or "oil powered" as they stated it back in the day) machine that was built as a direct replacement for the prior steam powered traction engines of similar size. But a lot of real prairie tractor collectors only truly consider the definition to apply to machines of a certain size/horsepower rating (like a 30-60 HP rating and up just to throw a number out there) but I personally consider anything that I showed during the initial walk-through of the tractor lines to be considered a "prairie tractor" due to them all having been built during the time period when the transition away from steam really began, but still before the designs moved away from the clunky channel-iron frames and HUGE heavy engines.

[@garystull2349]

Love the show, just wondering, I know you guys are into the tractors and dozers. I'm into hit-and-miss flywheel engines. Just wondering, if there's a good turnout of those at the shows you go to

[@tomhalver3]

Awesome video, do you ever get over to rollag wmstr, that show is usually the highlight of the year for me, but I'll have to get down to this show sometime

[@squatch253]

No I don't go to Rollag.

[@michaelkalsbeek9787]

When I saw the show number on the Case 150 I started giggling -- "That's gross!" BTW Toby, how do I get a mailing address to send you some of my surplus Heimann Transfer punches? I've gotten a bunch of extras (can't imagine needing more than 18 of one size at one time) that I'd be happy to ship out to you. First Initial Last Name at gmail works if you want to send an email...