5 miles from my cabin...as the crow fllies...or the XR runs.....
Not really a ride report! More like a cool thing I saw and took a bunch of pics, OK? While on my bike! I parked it and paid my $3.00 admission.
New Athens, Ohio. Every year on the weekend after Labor day, people gather with their 1870's - 1940's machinery and show people how it used to be done. It's awesome! Coal fired steam driven machinery! The complexity of these machines and the engineering it took to make them is mind boggling given the time they were produced!
They had steam powered threshers, hay bailers, and saw mills!
Coal and steam powering a bailer.
Look at all the belts an whistles! OSHA would have a field day on this!
It's an unbelievably complex piece of machinery! GTFO! You have to keep oiling and filling things as it works! It sounds like a choo-choo train when it gets under load!
It belches smoke and makes an awesome sound!
The food was great! They had giant copper kettles filled with ham and bean soup (pigs roasted on site) and fresh cornbread made from the 1870's grinders! Locals had 10 different kind of fresh pies, and hand churned ice cream! My take was fresh rhubarb pie with fresh peach ice cream! It doesn't get any better than that!
Well, it does. I'll be back this weekend to hunt doves! When these peeps clear out, it is the best!
Way cool!
You can't get a better slice of Americana than this! And I've seen most of the pie in my day!
Not really a ride report! More like a cool thing I saw and took a bunch of pics, OK? While on my bike! I parked it and paid my $3.00 admission.
New Athens, Ohio. Every year on the weekend after Labor day, people gather with their 1870's - 1940's machinery and show people how it used to be done. It's awesome! Coal fired steam driven machinery! The complexity of these machines and the engineering it took to make them is mind boggling given the time they were produced!
They had steam powered threshers, hay bailers, and saw mills!
Coal and steam powering a bailer.
Look at all the belts an whistles! OSHA would have a field day on this!
It's an unbelievably complex piece of machinery! GTFO! You have to keep oiling and filling things as it works! It sounds like a choo-choo train when it gets under load!
It belches smoke and makes an awesome sound! The food was great! They had giant copper kettles filled with ham and bean soup (pigs roasted on site) and fresh cornbread made from the 1870's grinders! Locals had 10 different kind of fresh pies, and hand churned ice cream! My take was fresh rhubarb pie with fresh peach ice cream! It doesn't get any better than that!
Well, it does. I'll be back this weekend to hunt doves! When these peeps clear out, it is the best!
Way cool!
You can't get a better slice of Americana than this! And I've seen most of the pie in my day!
Sweeet!! I wanna come! SOunds like a blast, our fair isn't as good, mostly rides and stuff. That kicks arseee!
