North Central Steam & Gas Engine Club of Edgar, Wisconsin Presents Annual Show

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Sarah Kleinstick
June/July 1990
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Gene Coyle brought another unique item to the show-an Adams Leaning Wheel Grader #12. It was used in Clark County for county road work around 1927. Gene's mother remembers seeing this grader being used when she was in high school.

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One of the odder looking machines is the Albaugh-Dover 'Square Turn' tractor. It has a single, smaller wheel in the front and two large ones in the back. It pivots on the front wheel and can be made to go backwards or forwards with very little effort. It is one of only three left and seemed to be of great interest to the show's visitors. We got a good view of the moves it can make when it appeared in the parade. Wonder why they quit making them, as it sure seems like a good idea.

It was getting late on Sunday and folks started to pack up their machinery to go home. We decided to do the same. We bought a bag of buckwheat flour ground there for us by Bill and Verena Sheldon, carried our little sack of ground corn that we had shucked with a hand mill and then fed into a gas powered grinder, toted our boards cut at the mini-sawmill and looked up into the sky to catch a last glimpse of the biplanes that had been coming and going at 'Wien International Airport' all weekend. As we drove away the steamers seemed to salute and talk to each other with their whistles. We'll look forward to hearing them again near Edgar next year and smelling their 'eau de nostalgia.'

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