The “Time Machines” will be
running at Rough and Tumble
Engineers’ Historical Association
during their 38th Annual
Threshermen’s Reunion this
August 13-16. That’s what some
folks call the massive steam
traction engines which are a part
of the collection of early farm,
home and industrial machinery for
which Rough and Tumble is noted.
Right now, the massive steam
traction engines, threshers and
tractors, their iron wheels rutted
by countless trips through owner’s
fields, stand quiet. So tall you’d
need a ladder to reach the top,
these mechanical work horses of
yesterday are now possibly laced
with a few cobwebs, a bit of rust
and dust. During the August 13-16
Reunion, however, the dust will
stir and a kind of mechanical
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Rough And Tumble Reunion Set Aug. 13-16
symphony will begin.
Rough and Tumble is a museum
dedicated to preserving equipment
used years ago for the work-a-day
tasks in industry and on the farm.
Clattering, clunking, whistling,
bellowing, smoke-belching steam
traction and stationary engines,
sawing wood, powering calliopes,
and threshers into action are the
focal point of the annual
threshermen’s Reunion.
• It was in the late 1920 s when gas
powered combines made steam
engines on the farm obsolete.
Twenty years later, a few devoted
enthusiasts of steam power
organized a picnic similar to the
ones threshermen enjoyed at the
end of the harvest season. The
picnic grew into Rough and
Tumble Engineers Historical
Association, with an annual
Threshermen’s Reunion, where
today visitors can enjoy the noise
and nostalgia of equipment
operating as it did back at the turn
of the century.
If you love early gas engines, you
will be happy to discover that half
of Rough and Tumble’s machinery
is gas powered. You can find
anything running there from very
early “hit-’n-miss” gas engines
once used to pump water, shell
field com, wash clothes, or power a
small mill, to large gas-powered
tractors.
A special feature of this year’s
reunion will be a chronological
display of many pieces of
machinery made by the Hart-
Parr/Oliver-White farm
machinery company. If this name
sounds strange, please remember
that modem companies hold no
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mergers. A bit of history of these
company names and how and when
they merged, will be included in
the demonstration narrative.
A Pageant of threshing is held
daily as is a Cavalcade of Power.
This mechanical parade features
everything on the grounds of
Rough and Tumble which can
move under its own power, in
cluding those steam traction
engines. Maneuvering them to
parade position and through
between the grandstands has been
likened to “teaching dinosaurs to
square dance."
The reunion will feature a tent of
items which could have been found
in a tum-of-the-century hardware
store, a museum building filled
with early industrial steam
engines most of the running, and
a front display of early farm and
home implements such as but
chering equipment, sausage
stuffers, wooden washing
machines, butter churns, seeders,
corn shelters and early farm
carpentry tools.
There is a whole building
devoted to models which run on
steam meticulously built to
scale with craftsmenship and
precision. The latest addition is an
outdoor miniature railroad track,
20’ by 40’, on which enthusiasts
may run their own Gauge #1 -
45 mm steam locomotives. If you
have one, bring it to try on this new
track. If you don’t happen to have
one of your own, do come and enjoy
the others that will be there.
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There is an operating saw mill, a
shingle mill and a steam-powered
stone crusher on the grounds.
There will be displays of horse
power (real horses) and a chance
to ride a steam-powered scale
model train or ride on a cart pulled
by oxen. The Ladies Auxiliary and
the Kinzer Fire Company will both
be supplying delicious homemade
food, along with several vendors
who feature such past remem
bered items as Sassaperilla or
Birch Beer.
Evening programs include a
threshing demonstration and
fiddlin’ on Wednesday evening
(with everyone welcome to join in
the fiddlin’.) Thursday evening
Warren Mercer will play for
square dancing, so bring and swing
your partner. Friday features
steam and gas games and com
petition. This is a don’t-miss
evening with contests the like of
which you have never seen before,
like the “How slow can you go?”
(without stalling) event and
precision handling of tons of
powered iron.
Admission during the four
Reunion days is $3 for adults and
$1.50 for children six to 10. Under
six, the kids get in free (ac
companied by an adult) and all
admissions are cut to half-price at
6 p.m. Rough and Tumble is
located approximately midway
between Coatesville and Lancaster
on Route 30. For additional in
formation write: R & T, Box 9,
Kinzers, PA 17535, or phone (717)
4424249.
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Monday, September 22.
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