RPRU pictures 2025

[55cub]

On 6/27/2025 at 8:22 AM, 1256pickett said:

What v-12 did they put in that M? Looks interesting. 

It was a GMC.  If i remember correctly, it was out of a missile carrier.

[nepoweshiekfarmalls]

@Sledgehammer,  did anyone take photos at the forum Meet and Greet?

[Alan Dinan]

5 hours ago, nepoweshiekfarmalls said:

@Sledgehammer,  did anyone take photos at the forum Meet and Greet?

Mike said that 5 guys showed up Thursday at 5, but whoever they were, no one posted the pictures. 

[Pete1468]

40 minutes ago, Alan Dinan said:

Mike said that 5 guys showed up Thursday at 5, but whoever they were, no one posted the pictures. 

So if I claim I was there only 5+ Mike will know if it's true or not?

[Alan Dinan]

1 hour ago, Pete1468 said:

So if I claim I was there only 5+ Mike will know if it's true or not?

We know that you weren’t there!! A certain emblem guy said so. 

[Brady Boy]

For those folks, who want to OD on pictures, here is a howitzer blast for ya.  Hope I don't overload the system.  Will be working on the video, as soon as I can.  BK

[farmallman77]

Brady boy.  You've done it again!  Thanks for all that you do for the hobby.   

[Howard_P]

Good collection.  Inclusion of the appropriate signs add a lot.  Thanks.

[B.B.]

I'm impressed he got all those in one post!

[junkandcattle]

Thanks for all of the great pictures everyone. I applaud all of the behind the scenes work for the show and for the restorations. I heard a local connection to one of the restorations so I snatched a screen shot. 

 

[Sledgehammer]

10 hours ago, nepoweshiekfarmalls said:

@Sledgehammer,  did anyone take photos at the forum Meet and Greet?

Nobody officially organized one. I talked to Mike Links before and after. A few showed up as was mentioned.  The second day a couple of us showed up but that was it. I think there would have been something had it been organized. 

[hardtail]

So many great machines, the amount of time to get this result must be tremendous 

[drglinski]

7 hours ago, Sledgehammer said:

Nobody officially organized one. I talked to Mike Links before and after. A few showed up as was mentioned.  The second day a couple of us showed up but that was it. I think there would have been something had it been organized. 

Wow.  That's too bad.  Tough to see that tradition just fall off like that. 

[farmalldr]

Thank you to those giving us the show coverage and pictures.  Hope to see some of you in Huron next year.  Missouri was a little far for us this year.  Take care and thanks.    Dennis

[IHRedDrive]

Great collection of photos. Did you take video like prior shows? Thanks for posting!

[CRVB91]

Nothing has made me happier today, than seeing that pink tractors were included in RPRU... 

[mike newman]

...only two old TD /T 35   track machines..???

..just as well I didn't make the show this year....

Mike

[jeeper61]

On 6/27/2025 at 4:03 PM, Dirt_Floor_Poor said:

On 6/27/2025 at 9:07 AM, farmallman77 said:

I'm going to be that guy.  As cool as that steiger is I can't figure out why it was let in the show.  It is not an IH piece of equipment.  They were not merged at the time of when this was made.  Just like case and IH.  Two separate companies.  If we are letting in steigers then are we letting in allis and ford built steigers?  

 

Steps off soapbox 

Steiger history became part of IH history when IH bought a third of the company in 1974. Not to mention all of the IH four-wheel-drive’s that came out of the Steiger factory. If it wasn’t for that tractor, the 4366 may never have existed or at least never have existed in the form it eventually came to be. You can’t talk about the largest ag tractors that IH ever marketed without talking about Steiger. Just my opinion.

The Octane Press makes the connection too