drglinski Posted June 27 Posted June 27 Next year is centerville MI 28 is Thief river falls MN 29 gets voted on I think tomorrow or Sunday. Quote
drglinski Posted June 27 Posted June 27 2 hours ago, cjf711 said: wherever they are i hope for more weekend activities Exhibitors show up real early in the week to set up and then want to leave Saturday or earlier because they might have a commitment on Monday. Makes it tough for the average Joe that works all week and can only go on a Saturday. Been happening for years. 1 Quote
SASW6 Posted June 27 Posted June 27 8 hours ago, drglinski said: Exhibitors show up real early in the week to set up and then want to leave Saturday or earlier because they might have a commitment on Monday. Makes it tough for the average Joe that works all week and can only go on a Saturday. Been happening for years. Same problem with tractor shows around hear 1 Quote
DT Fan Posted June 27 Posted June 27 Sounds like 2029 will be back in DuQuoin Illinois. Iowa has put in for '30, Des Moines. Heard at the show Laporte In. has entered that race now. Will be voted on next year in Michigan..... 2 2 Quote
ny bill o Posted June 27 Posted June 27 21 minutes ago, DT Fan said: Sounds like 2029 will be back in DuQuoin Illinois. Iowa has put in for '30, Des Moines. Heard at the show Laporte In. has entered that race now. Will be voted on next year in Michigan..... Were several Southern states and held in Georgia, also going to bid for 2029 at this years roundup? I was hoping they would get the vote. 1 Quote
cjf711 Posted June 27 Posted June 27 10 hours ago, drglinski said: Exhibitors show up real early in the week to set up and then want to leave Saturday or earlier because they might have a commitment on Monday. Makes it tough for the average Joe that works all week and can only go on a Saturday. Been happening for years. i know me my fam and couple friends would have gone a time or two more if taking off work wasn’t required, pretty much burned through vacation days to get crops in and spring chores caught up then when something cool like this comes up where we would be free for a break it just would be nice to have a relaxing saturday to do it on. but i’m not driving a semi of tractors across 3 states either so i understand that point too. Quote
DT Fan Posted June 27 Posted June 27 28 minutes ago, ny bill o said: Were several Southern states and held in Georgia, also going to bid for 2029 at this years roundup? I was hoping they would get the vote. Bill, I believe they withdrew from the running. Gene and I have made the last 4 in a row. The next few years are looking rather bleak. They can't all be close to home you know. 1 Quote
jass1660 Posted June 27 Posted June 27 13 hours ago, drglinski said: Next year is centerville MI 28 is Thief river falls MN 29 gets voted on I think tomorrow or Sunday. Is it Centerville or Centreville? Quote
12_Guy Posted June 27 Posted June 27 5 minutes ago, jass1660 said: Is it Centerville or Centreville? Centreville I think is how it is spelled. South central MI close to the IND border. The southern group of chapters had difficulty in getting a contract with the venue approved by the club’s insurance attorney. From what I understand 32 barely got theirs approved. They have hosted two RPRU at the same location before. The contract should have been a slam dunk. Just update the dates one would think. This is all second hand information so don’t quote me here. 1 Quote
drglinski Posted June 27 Posted June 27 It's Centreville. Basically out in the middle of BFE. 1 Quote
TroyDairy Posted June 27 Posted June 27 16 hours ago, drglinski said: Exhibitors show up real early in the week to set up and then want to leave Saturday or earlier because they might have a commitment on Monday. Makes it tough for the average Joe that works all week and can only go on a Saturday. Been happening for years. Yep Totally 100% ridiculous. Why come tue for a weekend show to leave early? Its like grandma in church 45 min before anyone shows up. Then the general pop whom we need to see and enjoy the hobby get shortchanged on a Sat with people leaving. Local Fair is huge fine for even packing up. Fair ends at 10pm Sat night. Period. And everyone makes it fine to their next event. 2 Quote
lotsaIHCs Posted June 27 Posted June 27 I really wanted to go this year since it's only a little over 4 hours from home. But we couldn't have left until this morning and from what I've been told we would have missed out on a lot of the show by getting there close to noon on Saturday. Maybe Thief River Falls will be doable. About 5 hours from home. Maybe we won't have some of our obligations by then. Quote
IHandJDman Posted June 28 Posted June 28 5 hours ago, drglinski said: It's Centreville. Basically out in the middle of BFE. While Centreville itself isn't large there's a ton of things around there and places to stay. 1 Quote
Dan Robinson Posted June 28 Posted June 28 11 hours ago, ny bill o said: Were several Southern states and held in Georgia, also going to bid for 2029 at this years roundup? I was hoping they would get the vote. 11 hours ago, DT Fan said: Bill, I believe they withdrew from the running. Gene and I have made the last 4 in a row. The next few years are looking rather bleak. They can't all be close to home you know. Take this pic for what its worth... Also sounded like lots of other show politics going on but we will leave that for another day... 3 Quote
mader656 Posted June 28 Posted June 28 Centerville is a huge grounds i grew up going to the fair there. Lots to do. Amish countries is not far. Hour to 80 and 94. If you think Centreville is bfe...i dont know what to say. I might make this one. 2 1 Quote
dale560 Posted June 28 Posted June 28 6 hours ago, lotsaIHCs said: I really wanted to go this year since it's only a little over 4 hours from home. But we couldn't have left until this morning and from what I've been told we would have missed out on a lot of the show by getting there close to noon on Saturday. Maybe Thief River Falls will be doable. About 5 hours from home. Maybe we won't have some of our obligations by then. I made it down Thursday around 2 o’clock. There is a lot of neat stuff there. The only other one I made it to was Huron in 2014. I hurriedly walked through exhibits as I had my 12 year old son with. But I did stop at a few booths. 88 series restore has a nice parts inventory and very pleasant. As was Charlie with the splitting stands and parts he sells. Bought a IH backpack from the Carolina group they were very hospitable and the 4 wd sand pickup was great. Then I looked over emblem guys and the paper farmer booth. I will make it over to Thief river in a couple years if everything lines up. I have to give a shout out to you guys with the SD chapter it was well organized and well ran event. Be very proud of yourselves. A lot of nice restored tractors and a lot of well cared for models that still work in the lineup. like I said the tractors were well organized. , my favorite tractor actually just because it looked cool was the 786 with big tires and turbo I believe sitting in the building by the early well restored 1915 tractors. I was almost out of vacation days also as I took one for Thursday and Friday was a scheduled day off. But I figured what the **** work will be there tomorrow and if not I will move on to something else. 2 Quote
Old-F20 Posted June 28 Posted June 28 23 hours ago, drglinski said: Exhibitors show up real early in the week to set up and then want to leave Saturday or earlier because they might have a commitment on Monday. Makes it tough for the average Joe that works all week and can only go on a Saturday. Been happening for years. I tell the people who complain about people pulling out saturday that maybe they should take vacation days from their job and go to the show on thursday or friday like those spending money to haul stuff to the show so they have items there........ 4 Quote
acem Posted June 28 Posted June 28 11 hours ago, Dan Robinson said: It's kinda hot in Georgia for alot of y'all. How about having winter shows in the south. The gulf coast and south Texas is nice in winter. 1 Quote
ChrisNY Posted June 28 Posted June 28 9 hours ago, acem said: It's kinda hot in Georgia for alot of y'all. How about having winter shows in the south. The gulf coast and south Texas is nice in winter. Yes! Winter show in the south would be great. Usually can not make RPRU because we are in the field 3 Quote
drglinski Posted June 28 Posted June 28 43 minutes ago, ChrisNY said: Yes! Winter show in the south would be great. Usually can not make RPRU because we are in the field I like that idea but no one from the north would bring anything if the roads were salt/snow/ice covered. 1 Quote
drglinski Posted June 28 Posted June 28 23 hours ago, DT Fan said: Bill, I believe they withdrew from the running. Gene and I have made the last 4 in a row. The next few years are looking rather bleak. They can't all be close to home you know. I get that. Last one that was close to me was in 2022 and that was still 4-5 hours away. Quote
Farmall1066 Posted June 28 Posted June 28 11 hours ago, Old-F20 said: I tell the people who complain about people pulling out saturday that maybe they should take vacation days from their job and go to the show on thursday or friday like those spending money to haul stuff to the show so they have items there........ I agree 100%!! 2 Quote
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