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National Farm Toy Show Display #1

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Ernest Oberhelman placed first at the 2001 National Farm Toy Show. Ernest created a 1930's/1940's era North Central Kansas farm. The display farm is fully functioning. The farm is a 220 acre farm with cropland in wheat, hay and a little corn. Ernest created a mid-summer haying operation on the display. Horses with a dump rake gather the hay, a big modern Allis-Chalmers WC pushes hay toward the mow. Then a lift under horse power lifts the hay to pile it.  A wagon picks up the hay in the field from the mow to carry it to the barn. At the barn a canvas hay sling pulled by a Minneapolis-Moline on the left side of the barn carries the hay to the mow inside. That was a very impressive working system on the display. There is a thresher in the wheat field powered by a John Deere D. Ernest shows his fathers first tractor, a Fordson, just starting to plow the wheat field. A new Oliver 60 is also in the field with a scratch built Minneapolis-Moline plow. The farm is very detailed with real dirt that Mr. Oberhelman collected from the base of his house to keep it to scale. A fun story that went along with the display was a small mattress on the porch roof. The house on the display represents the home Ernest grew up in. In the 1930's during the hot summer Ernest and his bothers would sleep out on the porch balcony to stay cool.

 

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