2018 Area Festivals

Page 12 2018 Area Fall Festivals LINCOLN DAILY NEWS SEPT. 12, 2018 While the day may not have been what it normally is, there was still a lot to take in at the show. Harnacke is an avid collector of tractors and farm equipment. Around his shop there are items of interest from garden tractors, to toys and antique corn-shellers. Inside the shop on Saturday was a special guest who had a display of his hand-crafted toy farm implements. He explained that he looks at old advertising pictures and then designs his toys according to the photo. On this day, the prize display by the toy maker was of a Massey-Harris corn picker. This is the style of corn picker that would have been mounted as a wrap around on a tractor. The tractor would roll down the rows of corn and the picker would cut them off, pull off the ears, remove the corn shuck and throw those ears into a wagon hooked on behind. On his silver and green model, he had made the picker more or less self-propelled with a cage built in the middle of the picker with a seat for the driver. Outside, a fun item was a toy tractor rocking horse. The battery powered kids riding tow had been mounted onto a wood rocking frame. Because the rider was a John Deere, the paint and decals on the rocker portion had been done in the same color scheme. CONTINUE ...