Last weekend several of us had the unique opportunity to attend the Erickson Show. Thank you Dick for such a pleasant weekend!Rosy and John were probably the first of our group to arrive on Friday and were soon put to work hauling in the guests. On Saturday Jim was able to give John a break and I enjoyed riding in the wagon as tour guide. It was neat meeting all the people who were mostly coming for the first time, like us.
The Erickson Farm is laid out much like an old town with a little bit of everytype of store, business, etc. to visit. Interspersed between all of that are his collections of cars, trucks, motorcycles, and tractors. It is a lovely valley setting surrounded with snowcovered peaks. In fact quite a bit of snow which had fallen last week when we had cold winds here in Page. By Sunday most had pretty well melted.
One of the first things they were trying to do on Friday was start up the tractor - pully - to run the saw mill. They got things going but it was turning too windy to handle the long belts that ran from the big tractor to the saw. On Saturday and Sunday the weather was perfect and everyone got the thrill of seeing this in action.There was plenty of camper parking in the upper levels. Great food from at least 3 vendors and plenty of facilities. Dick is a very thoughtful host.
Over this next week I will be putting up a gallery of several photos of the weekend.
Be sure to check out the poster below on the Butch Cassidy Days in Beaver, UT, July 6&7.
On Saturday there will be a tractor parade at 11, sign-up for the pull at 12 and the pull at 1pm
Pull is across the street from Ernie's on North Main.
Remember - if you know you are going to attend and plan to pull in any of our events you can register ahead by contacting June Salisbury. It is sometimes hard to get a pull set up to start on time, just because of getting everyone registered. If most of us preregistered, it would save a lot of time and events could start on schedule.
Our pull on Saturday ended with a contest between Red Salisbury's 1957 Seaman and Dick Erickson's 1958 John Deere 830. They first tied with full pulls but a rematch using both the heavy and the lighter sled had Red pulling 141' and Eric with a full pull.
