Last week the pickers came through here harvesting sweet corn,they hauled 8 -10 35 ton loads just about every day.Thursday about 4:00 they started into about 200 or so acres a mile down the road from me,I went up Friday morning to watch them awhile and take some pictures,by noon on Friday they were headed down the road to find more corn to pick,it is quite an operation,these same pickers run all summer long,they also use them for harvesting peas and beans.

This past weekend the town of Churchville held their annual Country Fair,it's a nice event with food and craft vendors,a nice parade on Saturday with a good turnout of antique tractors,then on Sunday they have the antique tractor pulls,if you look around this sight,you'll see that I have a thng or hot rod cars and old tractors but I really love old hot rod tractors.They had a great turn out of tractors as always,a good crowd of people and nice weather,it made for an enjoyable afternoon.

I know that they used different materials for covering a roof in different parts of the country,in the northeast,they used cedar shakes on a lot of buildings,this it how they were made,I always thought they were a very nice cover for a roof or even an exterior wall,but it probably took all day to make enough to cover a roof.  

They have a building that they built a few years back on the club grounds,that houses a couple of stationary steam engines,the big one is an electric generator,which would have been used in the late 1800s and early 1900s to power the lights in a small town.The smaller engine is running a line shaft that would have been used at a plant to run machines,if you look along the wall,over the top of the green engine,you can see a couple of metalworking tools that it's running.The boiler making the steam for these engines is outside the building,it's as big as the boiler on a large locomotive,there is a picture of it at Flickr,most of the noise in the video is my 2yr old grandaughter,she was riding on my shoulders and having a great time,it didn't even bother her when they blew the whistle.  

Here is a short video clip of a steam traction engine powering a thrashing machine at the 2008 Pagent of Steam near Canandaiqua,NY. 

This past weekend was one of the biggest engine shows in the northeast,it's called the Pagent of Steam and it's held on the New York Steam Engine Association grounds near Canandaiqua,NY.We went on Saturday and had very nice weather,it was very muddy,though from torrential rains that they had on Friday,we were able to see all of the tractors,small engines and hit n miss displays without too much trouble,about half of the flea market area wasn't very accesible because of mud.I was able to get some good pictures along with a couple short video clips of some pretty amazing 50-100 yr old engines,most of which are in running condition.There are lots more at Flicker also.