Spring Steam-Up is a special event each year at Rough and Tumble. It's time to get the steam engines out of hibernation and fire them up. It's the only time of the year that you'll see many of them doing real work when they do some plowing. And it's one of the few times you'll see many of them pulling the sled on the tractor pull track. Click on any link below to see the photo, or Start Here and click the "Next Photo" link on each page to page through all 128 photographs in order.   You can return to this page from any of the photo pages.   Remember our Tips on viewing Photo Albums   Miscellaneous Scenes Early in the Day Personal Transportation Plowing Demonstrations The Tractor Pull

• The 1886 Schiedler, one of two of its kind in existence,
  is the first engine owned by R&T
• With a successful fund raising campaign,
  R&T will restore the Schiedler to running condition
• A 2-G Centaur garden tractor arrives for the show
• The front of the Centaur
• A LeRoy power unit, Serial# 67670,
  manufactured in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
• Four lawn tractors arrive with luxurious accommodations
• George Cornog (left in photo) brought his
  colorful corn planter collection
• George shows a visitor one of his oldest corn planters
• The planter...
• has wonderful workmanship
• Another of George's planters, a Smithfield Mfg. Co product.
• George Cornog also brought this early John Deere B
• George's John Deere Model B is ready to participate
  in the plowing demonstrations
• The old John Deere B has a fancy magneto cover
• As you can see, this is an early model.
• The small Frick goes for an early run
• A scale Rumely-styled homemade tractor
• The scaled tractor powered a scale baler
• Another scale baler was powered by a hit-and-miss engine
• Aligning the Aultman and Taylor with the air brake
• Up close with the Aultman and Taylor
• Part of Steam Engine Row, with the Avery (left)
  and Case flanking two Fricks
• The other side of Steam Engine Row
• Another Frick cruises the grounds
• Setting up the Geiser Peerless to power the sawmill
• John Geib makes some adjustments to the Peerless
• The Peerless from the front
• A small group watches the sawmill
• Antique literature collectors were served by this vendor
• R&T's dining room had a busy day
• The "kitchen staff" hard at work
• You don't have to be a railroad buff to thoroughly enjoy the Shay
• The Shay rounds the bend before the farmhouse
• The Shay heads home
• This steam shovel is new to R&T this year
• Those legs belong to a man welding the steam shovel
• We hope to see the steam shovel running soon
• A beautifully preserved wagon wheel
• Paul Stolsfus' very rare 1912 15/25 Fairbanks Morse
• The small Rumely waits for its owner
• The driver's position of the small Rumely
• R&T's 1929 Linn Halftrack model 25D cruises the grounds with "flaps up"
• The Linn's four cylinder Waukesha engine
• Some of the Case tractors on hand
• And more Case tractors
• Cockshutts and Allis-Chalmers were also on display

• Taking a ride on the family John Deere "B"
• A young man gets around on this 1/2 scale Case steam traction engine
• 21 month old Andy Lenhardt travels in comfort
• John McCarter takes a friend for a ride on his homemade horseless carriage
• One of the "people movers" returns from the plowing demonstration field
• Heading out to the plowing demonstrations on the family Allis-Chalmers
• George's very large Mack Tonka Toy

• The plowing demonstration field was just over the crest of the ridge,
  east of R&T's grounds
• A McCormick-Deering F-30 heads out to do some plowing
• The F-30's wide track just fit the path to the field
• Jerry Myer checks the Avery's plow depth as
  Josh Nace (driving) and crew look on
• Phares Stauffer on his 1956 John Deere 520 leads Josh Nace on the Avery
• Phares Stauffer reconnects the plow to his John Deere 520
• Another view of Phares plowing
• Plowing Demonstrations allow the crowd to get up close and personal
• Phares is underway again
• The Avery and Phares' John Deere 520 are on the roll again
• The small Peerless tries its hand at plowing
• Plowing with the Peerless requires a lot of agility
• Many crews had problems with the plow breaking away when hitting rocks
• The Peerless was attached to the plow with a chain
• The Peerless from the front
• Everything is go, again
• The Peerless finishes its run
• The Avery plowing uphill was a real crowd pleaser
• A great site!
• Another view of the "chug'n" Avery
• George Cornog plowing with his early model John Deere "B"
• George's John Deere "B" is pulling a one-bottom plow
• The big four cylinder air-cooled Deutz F4L-514 had power to spare
• This Aultman and Taylor prepares for its plowing run
• The Aultman and Taylor follows the Deutz
• The farmer whose land is being plowed
  checks out the demonstrations from horseback
• The Deutz leads the Aultman and Taylor back to the starting point
• The Deutz could plow at just about any speed
• The Aultman and Taylor plows back up hill
• The "business end" of the Aultman and Taylor
• Phares Stauffer switches to disking with his 1956 John Deere 520
• Later, the Deutz takes its turn with the disk
• A rare site, the Deutz disking while mules pull a harrow
• The McCormick-Deering F-30 finally gets its turn with the plow
• The low slung F-30 hunkers down
• Making good time with three bottoms
• Jim Martin tries his hand plowing with his Rumely
• Jim has lots of help when the plow breaks away from his Rumely
• Jim's Rumely passes the Deutz on its return trip
• The Rumely had little trouble pulling the two bottom plow

• Josh Nace, driving, and John Martin use the Rumely
  to get the sled ready for pulling
• Does John really think he can replace the pull-back tractor?
• Norman Gay starts the eastbound, uphill tractor pull with a Jeep
• This Oliver pulls the sled
• This Case gets a little out of shape
• The Cockshutt 30 makes good progress
• An F-30 takes its turn with the sled
• Phares Stauffer pulls with one of his many
  John Deere tractors, this one an "A"
• Phares almost makes a full pull
• This driver on his Case looks like he's out for a summer drive
• A John Deere "G" tries its hand with the sled
• Phares Stauffer tries again, this time on his unstyled "G"
• Josh Nace, who normally occupies the sled seat,
  tries pulling with a Farmall "M"
• Back from plowing, the low slung McCormick-Deering F-30
  takes a turn with the sled
• This Allis-Chalmers D17 carries a lot of wheel weights
• The Cockshutt 40 tries the near side of the track
• With rear tires flexing and front wheels light,
  a John Deere "D" takes its turn
• The big Deutz made it a full day with a yank on the sled
• The Deutz with wheels up
• With tires flexing, this Farmall 480 had a good pull
• The McCormick WD-9 pulls in a cloud of dust
• The big Cockshutt 570 was very impressive
• The Case 400 rears up as it pulls the sled
• The Oliver Super 88 makes its way up the track
• The John Deere 730 Diesel keeps on pulling
• This International 656 is always an impressive puller
• It's flexed tires and wheels up for the International 560
• Josh Nace is back on his sled seat as the
  Case 400 prepares to return the sled
• A Frick nears the end of its run with the sled
• Butch Biesecker's Keck-Gonnerman pulls the sled with ease
• Butch's "Beautiful Noise" finishes its run
• A pull'n Frick and a cloud of dust
• Jeff Doucette finishes his run on R&T's big Case
• Arvid Hamilton pulls with his two-cylinder Frick
• Arvid (seated) heads back to the parking lot after the pull

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