Christmas Dinner At Fritz’s

THANK YOU. To all who came to the lovely dinner at Fritz’s. The winner of the annual tractor quiz was Ron Ciesla with 12 answers right. Way to go Ron! I’ll post pictures and the quiz this weekend for all to enjoy. Merry Christmas from Gera Old Tractor Club.

Fall Family Days at the Thumb Octagon Barn

One of our club members, Louis Wehrmann is very active with the Octagon Barn in Gagetown.  Today & tomorrow is their Fall Family Days event. This event features hundreds of flea market vendors selling everything imaginable as well as demonstrations of various equipment including a Bay City Shovel and a sawmill. There are also many antique tractors on display and tons of activities and events for the whole family. And all of that is in addition to checking out the immensely cool Octagon Barn itself. If you haven’t been to the barn before, I highly recommend you make the trip.

If you are interested in all the happenings, please check out club member and webmaster, Elizabeth’s review of the 2010 Fall Family Days at the Octagon Barn complete with pictures and info.

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2011 Gera Old Tractor Club Pig Roast & Collector Calendar Sale

It’s that time of year again!  Time for a delicious pig roast at the Gera Tavern.  This is also the first opportunity for the public to get their hands on the Gera Old Tractor Calendar.

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Location:  Gera Tavern – M-83 North of Frankenmuth

When:  May 15th, 2011

 

We serve a great meal consisting of pulled pork and sides and dessert.  The price is $8.00 per plate.

There will also be a raffle drawing.  Tickets are available from club members or at the Gera Tavern. 

Collectors Calendars will be available for $4.00 at the pig roast and aftewards from club members. Don’t miss your chance to get one for your shed!

Nexteer Family Day 2010 (Formerly Delphi Days)

As it has in the past, the Gera Old Tractor Club participated with a family fun event at a local business, Nexteer Steering.  We brought our tractors out to cart people around the parking lot and add a fun element to transportation at the event.  The kids love seeing and hearing the old tractors and riding on the barrel ride. 

Here are some pictures from the event which took place on 9/11/2010.  We hope that we have an opportunity to do this again next year, it is a really fun event.

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Busy Weekend for the Tractor Club

So, there are a number of activities taking place this weekend for the members of our club & members of our community.

 

Nexteer Steering (Formerly Delphi) is hosting an employee appreciation event.  Our club members will be using their old tractors and people movers to transport the attendees from the parking lot to the event. We also will have a tent set up to sell TShirts and Hats to the attendees.  This is usually a fun event for the club and is also a fundraiser for our annual tractor show.  If you are interested in participating, please contact Jerry Daenzer.  He plans to be at Nexteer on Saturday morning (9/11/2010) at 8:30am.  The event kicks off around 10am and runs until 4pm.

 

This weekend is also the Octagon Barn Family Farm Days event in Gagetown. This event takes place on Saturday and Sunday and includes a tractor show and hundreds of exhibitors and high quality crafters. They are also having a fish fry on Friday night.  Club member Louis Wehrmann is very active with the Octagon Barn. Exhibitor spaces are sold out, but it is a great event to attend as a spectator. 

 

And, if we didn’t have enough happening this weekend it is also Frankenmuth Auto Fest.  This event kicks off on Friday night with a street party on Main Street downtown.  Their will be hundreds of cars on display on Main Street Friday night and also in Heritage Park on Saturday and Sunday. A number of our club members also are interested in antique and classic cars.  I expect several club members to be displaying their car collections at this show.  It is always fun and interesting to see the classic cars.  Frankenmuth is FunTown.

So, if you can’t find something fun to do this weekend, you aren’t looking hard enough!  Hope to see you around this weekend!

2010 Tractor Pull Sponsors

The Gera Old Tractor Days wishes to acknowledge and thank our 2010 Tractor Pull sponsors.  Please visit their websites and their businesses. Tell them you heard about them here!

 

View all of the 2010 Tractor Pull Sponsors

New Feature! Event Calendar

We’ve added an event calendar to the site. I’ll be posting all the dates and times for club activities and club meetings as well as various activities. This should help everyone to keep up with our activities and know what is going on. I’ve only added activities for June and July so far, but we’ll get all of the planned activities included shortly.

 

Check it out!

John Deere "GreenHouse Effect" at the tractor pulls

This tractor was in one of the pro-stock classes at the Gera Old Tractor Days in 2010.

Delphi Days

The club plans to participate in Delphi Days again in 2010. This event was cancelled in 2009 and we are SO happy to have the event happening again in the community. What a good sign!

September 18th is the day for Delphi Days.  We will need club members to help with people movers.  Let Jerry Daenzer know if you are interested!

Tractor Pulls Allis Chalmers WD

Here’s a video from the 2010 Gera Old Tractor Days. This is an Allis Chalmers WD during the antique tractor pulls on Saturday at the show.

 

There will be more videos posted soon on our YouTube page