Josh Dilsaver

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Our name is Northern Nevada Antique Power Club, EDGE&TA Branch #132. Our mailing address is PO Box 21054, Carson City, NV 89721-1054. We meet for dinner at 5:00 p.m. and meeting at 7:00 p.m. on the second Monday of each month at Black Bear Diner (Inside Max’s Casino) at 900 So. Carson Ct., (Highway 395) Carson City, NV 89701

EDGE&TA Branch 62

Treasure State Flywheelers started back in 1979 in Great Falls, Montana. Where a group of men and women dedicated to preserving some of the past, acquired and restored antique tractors and stationary engines. At first these people met with each other because they had similar interest and hobbies. They would get together at someone’s shop and fix or repair someone’s flywheel engine or tractor. Soon they decided they should form a club and see about incorporating it. So in 1981, the Treasure State Flywheelers became incorporated.

The club is formally active in many areas and most of our members also take part in other club events. Each year some of our members take part in the Teton Antique Steam & Gas Threshing Bee, located in Choteau, Montana. With many events happening all over the United States, we try to attend as many as possible.

The Treasure State Flywheelers primary show is held each year at the Montana State Fair in Great Falls Montana. Many stationary engines, tractors, and other machinery are displayed and operated to show people how rural America lived and worked.

The show is a good place to relive the past and welcome friends, both old and new, and to have a good time reminiscing about bygone days.

Each year we try to involve more participation and members to our club. We are always looking for new members and old iron. If you or someone you know is interested in these pursuits, please contact us. Old iron is becoming scarcer with each passing day, so if you have something that you don’t know what to do with give any member a call, donations are always appreciated.

The Treasure State Flywheelers meet on the first Sunday of every month, unless noted. The annual dues are $40.00 dollars per year. Are you interested in or are you restoring a stationary engine or an antique tractor. We would like to hear about your project. Please feel free to contact one of the members at (406) 736-5463 or 727-5235

Club Contact Name: Dennis Lorang

Club Contact Address: 2700 17th Street NE, Black Eagle, MT 59414

Club Contact E-mail Address: [email protected]

Club Contact Phone Number: (406) 727-2726

Club Contact Fax Number: (406) 727-2008

Branch Officers for 2024

President:
Joe Garrity33 Broken Spoke Lane, Great Falls, MT 59404, [email protected], (406) 799-8650

Vice President:
Tyler Yuhas459 West Eden Rd., Great Falls, MT 59405, [email protected] , (406) 736-5778

Secretary:
Dennis Lorang
2700 17th Street NE, Black Eagle, MT 59414, [email protected], (406) 727-2726, fax: (406) 727-2008

Treasurer:
Julie Meyer
33 Broken Spoke Lane, Great Falls MT 59404, [email protected], (406) 868-1164

Safety Director:
Thomas Railsback3025 8th Avenue North, Great Falls, MT 59401, [email protected], (406) 454-8758

Editor:
Anita Lincoln
3735 Wildfire Rd, East Helena, MT 59635, [email protected], (406) 439-0965

Membership Director:
Richard Dahlen700 Vaughn Frontage Rd., Great Falls, MT 59404, [email protected], (406) 231-5873

EDGE&TA Branch 160

Club Mailing Address:
Po Box 16523, Las Cruces, NM 88006

Branch Officers for 2021

President:
Tim Tharp
3711 Silver City HWY NW, Deming NM 88030, [email protected], (575) 494-3155

Vice President:
Bill Massie
9377 Westside Rd., Anthony, NM 88021, [email protected] , (915) 525-8093

Secretary:
Bonny Townsend
2004 N. Alameda Boulevard, Las Cruces, NM 88005, [email protected], (575) 526-6362

Treasurer:
Sierra Lewis
185 Roberts Dr., Las Cruces, NM 88011, [email protected], (915) 525-8093

Safety Director:
Johnny Duffy
231 Oxford, Las Cruces NM 88005, 575-642-5465

Editor:
Charlie Welch
[email protected]

Membership Director:
Vacant

EDGE&TA Branch 9

The Early Day Gas Engine & Tractor Association, Branch 9, of rural Merlin, Oregon. Pottsville, created for the state’s centennial, provides a historic country setting for this tribute to by-gone days. Called the “Home of Oregon Memories,” the facility was established by former Senator Debbs Potts. From Interstate 5, take exit 61, head north on Monument Dr. turn left on Pleasent Rd. Pottsville’s marked by a large dozer blade.

Club Contact Name: Mike Wonsyld

Club Contact Address: 891 Coutant Lane, Grants Pass, OR 97527-4736

Club Contact E-mail Address: [email protected]

Club Contact Phone Number: (541) 659-4535

Branch Officers for 2024

President:
Mike Wonsyld891 Coutant Lane, Grants Pass, OR 97527, Merline, OR 97532, [email protected], (541) 659-4535

Vice President:
Rick Korner1767 Orchard Home Dr, Medford, OR 97501, [email protected] , (541) 245-4291

Secretary:
Donna Cooper
2016 Fruitdale Dr, Grants Pass, OR 97527-4736, [email protected], (541) 659-8212

Treasurer:
Vacant

Safety Director:
Rick Korner1767 Orchard Home Dr, Medford, OR 97501, [email protected], (541) 245-4291

Editor:
Dick Benson
5976 New Hope Rd., Grants Pass, OR 97501-3855, [email protected], (541) 245-4291

Membership Director:
Elaine Elliott
6619 Tolo Road, Central Point, OR 97502, [email protected], (541) 880-6038

Gene Bradley

Mr. Bradley and a group of other tractor enthusiast from our area joined together for some fun and friendly competitions several years before Antique Power Association of the Ozarks Branch #131 EDGE & TA was founded. It was not uncommon for this group to use their “daily driver” tractor to compete at local pulls and county fair events. Mr. Bradley is a charter member of Antique Power. Although, he hasn’t served as an officer, he has always worked hard behind the scenes doing whatever was needed to make the club a success. He has been promoting the sport of tractor pulling over 36 years.

He attends most monthly tractor club meetings and local events with a smile on his face and encouraging words on his lips. He is certainly an enthusiastic member and participant in spite of losing his three children and wife within the last few years.

We believe Gene Bradley deserves this award because his kind and gentle example has delivered many positive messages as he has promoted the sport of tractor pulling. His passion for tractors and tractor pulling was demonstrated at home and in town because he shared this hobby with his two sons. The three of them competed together for several years. As a seasoned tractor puller, Mr. Bradley is known to put on a good show for all to enjoy as he heads down the track with a smile on his face displaying an American flag from the back of his tractor. He isn’t afraid to extend a helping hand even to those that might out pull him. He is a very fine example of a true sportsman with a strong faith. At 81 years old, he continues to participant in about every parade and pull within a reasonable distance from home. He is an overall good guy. Mr. Bradley is an excellent candidate for this award.

Mr. Bradley worked as a mechanic so he used his professional skill set to enhance and preserve automobiles and antique tractors. He knows what to do to get all he can out of his tractor.

Mr. Bradley interests in preserving and exhibiting tractors spans many years and he is still active today. Over the years, he has owned a wide variety of tractors including: Ford, Case, Allis Chalmers, Farmall Cub, and his current pulling tractor, a 1942 Oliver 70. He currently has six antique tractors which he maintains in top running order.

Glenn T. Smith

In April of 1992 Glenn T. Smith saw the need for a tractor and engine club to serve Northwest Arkansas, Southwest Missouri, and Northeast Oklahoma. He enlisted the support of a couple of like-minded friends. About fifty letters were sent out to interested parties, and on May 8, 1992, thirty people showed up for the first meeting. Tired Iron of the Ozarks was born that night with twenty-four people joining up. Glenn thought fifty would be a big total number, but by the end of that first year, 135 people had joined. Tired Iron soon became Branch 37 of EDGE&TA. Glenn was the first president. He served four years during these formative years of the club. In 2011 he returned for a two year period as president.

Glenn and his wife have bought and sold many tractors and a few engines over the years. At one time they bought a 1913 fifty-horse power Case steam tractor. They kept it three years—it now resides in Georgia. The tractor Glenn has held on to is a John Deere AR that Glenn’s dad bought new in 1951. Glenn recalls that his dad “turned him loose” on the AR when he was about thirteen to help out with the farming while his dad ran a machine shop.

The Smiths have a restored 1945 Chevrolet two-ton truck that honors our fallen veterans. A flag draped casket rests on the bed of the truck. The truck has been shown at many festivals and parades. The old truck has an actual mileage of 3,200 on the odometer at the time of restoration. Glenn’s current restoration project is an Allis Chalmers G with a four-row cultivator. Glenn was willed a priceless collection of precious handmade models of yesteryear’s machinery by a member of Tired Iron. Glenn continues to display the machines, which include and intricate scale model of a threshing machine.

In short, Tired Iron of the Ozarks would not exist without the work of Glenn Smith. He is a great example of one who makes tractor clubs and EDGE&TA work.

Dale Crawford

Dale Crawford was born in California and began his life on a dairy farm. His father soon sold the dairy and eventually purchased two farms to produce watermelons, peaches, almonds and walnuts for market. A Ferguson TO-30 was purchased for the difficult work. Dale’s dad was so successful the local FFA sent students to see proper farming methods being used.

Dale’s work career was as one of the first truck drivers with what was then a beginning Arkansas enterprise called Wal-Mart. In 1975 he went to work as the 23rd driver with the company after being interviewed and hired by Sam Walton himself. Dale retired from driving for Wal-Mart in 1998 after having driven an amazing 4.2 million miles.

After retirement, he was introduced to old engines by Jim Caylor, his brother’s father-in-law who was a restorer of old engines and a member of EDGE&TA, Branch 13, in California. In this small world, Jim gave Dale the phone number of Randy Gallaway, a Tired Iron of the Ozarks, Branch 37, member back in Northwest Arkansas. Dale called Randy and learned all about Tired Iron. In a few days, Dale visited a club display of tractors and engines at a special occasion. He liked what he saw and joined Tired Iron and has been an active member ever since.

At the time he joined, Dale didn’t have any engines. He soon bought two engines from another Tired Iron member. The engines were an LB International and an incomplete but running Fuller Johnson pump engine. He now has fourteen old engines, some of which are quite rare. His collection also includes several engine-operated implements. They include two metal saws, several water pumps, and two corn grinders. His favorite engine to exhibit is his 8 H.P. Witte engine which powers a big buzz saw for sawing logs. Dale is any club president’s dream member. He willingly and frequently trailers his exhibits to events all around Northwest Arkansas, Eastern Oklahoma, and Southwest Missouri where crowds of people gather to hear about his engines. Dale serves as an excellent ambassador for Tired Iron at these special presentations and at our shows as he attracts people from all walks of life to Tired Iron and its mission to the region. Dale has served Tired Iron as a director for the last six years and has just been elected for another three year term.