We are a club that
promotes antique tractors and gas engines/ equipment
and implements preservation. We are dedicated to our
community with helping to raise money for charities
that help our local area and the nation.
We
regularly participate in parades and attend many other
antique machine events (cars, trucks, farm shows,
tractor shows and fairs) we generally raise money with
50-50 ticket sales, dues, t-shirt, hat, and raffle
tractor ticket sales with the tractor we sell chances on
every year. We meet the last Wednesday of every month @
the Edinburg fire station meeting room, Edinburg, VA at
7:30 P.M.
Our club was
started approximately 18 years ago by some local tractor
enthusiasts that thought it would be great to have a
local show and tractor pull, thus, Massanutten
Antique tractor and gas engine club was born. The show
features a different tractor/ gas engine every year and
this year it is the (Case tractors, engines and
implements) for 2008.
Last year was the
first year we incorporated a tractor trail ride of about
9 miles through town and then out the back roads and
back to the fairgrounds. Our show is held every year the
second weekend in June. This year the 13th,14th and 15th.
We are located at the Shenandoah county fairground right
off interstate 81 at exit 283 in Woodstock, Virginia. We
have indoor buildings for vendors and food available on
site with a kiddie barrel train ride and many other
activities and demonstrations. We are trying to improve
with every year adding more things. The past several
years we have had EMS and fire rescue come and display
on Saturday in conjunction with our show. We
also have antique trucks and cars come to display. There
is no charge to come or display at our show but to
participate in anything off fairgrounds you must be a
member of the club for insurance purposes.
We look to our
future by remembering our proud farming heritage which
is rapidly disappearing in our area, as well as many
others. With the continuance of our club we hope we will
never forget our farming past and it's importance to our
country. Please consider joining us for many good times
in the future.
As a club we are
proud sponsors of the American Cancer Society, St Jude
Children's research Hospital, FFA, Muscular Dystrophy
Association, Blue Ridge Hospice, Ruritan's Empty
Stocking Fund, Shenandoah fair class sponsorships,
Academic agricultural sponsorships for local youth, the
Shenandoah free clinic and local fire and rescue squad.
We are a well
established club as this is going to be our 18th show we
put on this year. We participate in the Apple Blossom
parade and Sunday in the park in Winchester, VA end of
April - early May as well as the Relay for Life at the
American Legion in Edinburg sometime in April. We always
have a team for Relay For Life that is held in our area
on Memorial Day weekend from Friday afternoon to
Saturday noon to raise money for the American Cancer
Society. Last year we raised over $6000.00 from our club
team.
We enjoy getting
together and talking tractors and eating. There is
always some sort of food that we bring to share.
Our show is rather
hectic for our active club members as it requires a lot
of coordination over a fairly large area with many
different things going on each day. Our club central
location for the show is the "brown building". This is
where we sell t-shirts, hats and water. This is also
where we register our participants, give out goodie bags
and answer all the questions.
When our show is
over we attend many other club's shows both as an
invited club and as individuals to schmooze and get new
ideas for the future.
We have a club
picnic and a banquet dinner, (more eating! We like to
eat). We do several parades for Christmas events and
harvest festivals in our county. We like to give money
away and we sell chances each year on our raffle tractor
which is a primary source of income for the club. (We
are non-profit).
Our club owns a
teeter totter that one of our members built and we try
to balance tractors on it, which is not easy. We put on
an antique tractor pull on Saturday afternoon at our
annual show and there is live bluegrass music on
Saturday night. We have a kiddie pedal tractor pull and
barrel train rides for children. There is a daily
tractor parade in front of the grandstand and various
tractor games. Of course there is church on Sunday
followed by a tractor trail ride for our club members,
(you have to be a club member to ride off the
fairgrounds for insurance purposes). Our club has many
different brand lovers and subsequent rivalries! We
always have a good time and love to tease each other.
Why not come and join in the fun. We look forward to
meeting you.
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