Allis Cotton Days Show 2025
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Topic: Allis Cotton Days Show 2025
Posted By: CrestonM
Subject: Allis Cotton Days Show 2025
Date Posted: 23 Jan 2025 at 2:12pm
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Hey everyone, This has been a couple years in the making, but this year I will be hosting an open invitation Allis-Chalmers show on a farm near Hobart, Oklahoma. It’s scheduled to be November 14-15. I will have at least one of every model of self propelled cotton stripper Allis built from 1966-1982, for a total of hopefully 6 or 7 machines. If the weather cooperates this summer, we will have about 30 acres of cotton to harvest with the machines. I’m hoping to get the word out to as many Allis people as possible, and encourage everyone to bring a piece of Allis equipment to the show to display if they can. The show will be very sparse and unimpressive if people don’t bring equipment. I have a few pieces to display but not enough for a show. I’d like to have a moldboard plowing event also, but that will only be a success if people bring plows, I only have one. If any Allis vendors would want to come, we could have a swap meet also. We will have food trucks and portable restrooms, but those are the only amenities at this time. Below is a link to the website. A link to RSVP is on the website. If we can’t get at least 40 people to RSVP by October, we will not be having the show. Ask me any questions you have, and I hope to see you there! https://alliscottondays.webador.com/" rel="nofollow - Allis Cotton Days Website Link |
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Posted By: Kcgrain
Date Posted: 23 Jan 2025 at 3:01pm
| my old boss from a harvest run, lives in Hobart, on Broadway st |
Posted By: CrestonM
Date Posted: 23 Jan 2025 at 3:09pm
Who was it? |
Kcgrain wrote:Posted By: Pat the Plumber CIL
Date Posted: 23 Jan 2025 at 4:49pm
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I have told you in the past if you do this I will be there. I am sure there is a lot of work involved trying to organize this event. I would suggest reaching out to people that have been involved in organizing such events. Dale Haymaker or Ted Buisker come to mind. You're never going to please everyone. Just scheduling a date can upset some potential visitors.Get the date out on as many media sites as you can .I am sure you will do your do diligence and make it a pleasurable, informative event. Keep your goals and expectations low . Personally I would love to learn more about cotton farming, harvesting as corn, beans ,wheat and hay is all that is farmed around here . Hopefully enough people can get involved and make this a successful venture. Good luck and if there is anything I can do don't hesitate to ask . ------------- You only need to know 3 things to be a plumber;Crap rolls down hill,Hot is on the left and Don't bite your fingernails 1964 D-17 SIV 3 Pt.WF,1964 D-15 Ser II 3pt.WF ,1960 D-17 SI NF,1956 WD 45 WF. |
Posted By: CrestonM
Date Posted: 23 Jan 2025 at 5:52pm
| Thank you, Pat! |
Posted By: darrel in ND
Date Posted: 24 Jan 2025 at 5:18am
| Wow Creston, that's an ambitious project, and I sincerely hope that it's a huge success for you. According to Google maps, your 16 hours straight south of me. I can't promise you right now that I'll be there, but I certainly hope that I can attend. Cotton harvesting is one thing that I've never been around, so I know that I would find that very interesting. Best of luck to you, and I am going to be watching my schedule very closely, hoping to keep those dates open. Thanks, Darrel |
Posted By: Gary(WI)
Date Posted: 24 Jan 2025 at 6:22am
| Sounds fun |
Posted By: cwhit
Date Posted: 24 Jan 2025 at 6:46am
| Creston, if you have posters, pamphlets,brochures,etc, about this event, PM me and we’ll help get this info out to the other shows we work this year. You’re just a little over 10 hr. drive for me and I really think this would be a nice event. Checked out the web and it looks like you have things going in the right direction. Any questions you might have feel free to give me a shout. Best of luck. Will be praying for good weather for you. Hopefully Jodi and I can can make it out there.. |
Posted By: Kcgrain
Date Posted: 24 Jan 2025 at 7:17am
| Frank Woods, he's still alive, and I see the shop he worked out of is now a cowboy church or something, I just looked on google earth |
Posted By: CrestonM
Date Posted: 24 Jan 2025 at 7:46am
I don’t know Frank personally but I know who he is, he lived right across the street from my grandma’s sister! Someone told me once he had a bunch of A-C cotton strippers he used out on cotton harvest in Arizona? |
Posted By: Macon Rounds
Date Posted: 24 Jan 2025 at 8:30am
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I RSVP'ed If someone has an extra tractor and plow in that area I'll be happy to help you load and haul it there. My equip is 17 hours from there but I plan to be there in person. ------------- The Allis "D" Series Tractors, Gravely Walk behind Tractors, Cowboy Action Shooting !!!!!!! And Checkmate |
Posted By: CrestonM
Date Posted: 24 Jan 2025 at 8:35am
Thanks for the good wishes Darrel, I understand if you can’t make it due to that long drive, but would be great to have you here! I’m going to have a foam board map of the US set up and everyone can stick a pin where they’re from, that could provide some interesting results. |
Posted By: CrestonM
Date Posted: 24 Jan 2025 at 8:36am
Thank you, I saw your email. I’m going to try to rally up some more local people who would have equipment to bring, so we’ll see what happens. |
Posted By: Kcgrain
Date Posted: 24 Jan 2025 at 9:20am
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when I worked for him he had 8 Combines, and 20 cotton strippers. The cotton was on the Paloma Ranch in Gila Bend AZ, but we cut the last wheat the ranch grew and picked the last cotton off the ranch and it was closed. They leased out the land etc and it broke up. Frank hand land by the ranch and grew some cotton, but not sure that continued after Paloma closed. I know he had his son growing Shrimp there, but I dont think that goes any more either
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Posted By: CrestonM
Date Posted: 24 Jan 2025 at 9:24am
| Wow that’s a lot of machines. Were they Allis/Gleaners or something else? |
Posted By: IBWD MIke
Date Posted: 24 Jan 2025 at 9:26am
| I'll put this on the calendar. That's prime plowing time here and a 10 hour drive, might not make it. |
Posted By: IBWD MIke
Date Posted: 24 Jan 2025 at 9:33am
| Creston, you might post this in the 'Events' section too. |
Posted By: CrestonM
Date Posted: 24 Jan 2025 at 12:14pm
| Good idea, I’ll do that. |
Posted By: Kcgrain
Date Posted: 24 Jan 2025 at 3:02pm
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The combines he had were 4 Massey 860 and 4 John Deere 8820s the cotton pickers were all John Deeres. The Paloma Ranch however had fleets of 8000 series fleets of 185s with Canopies, a few 7080 were left a few 8550 were left, had a bunch of 4W-305s doing the heavy tillage, never seen so many Allis Chalmers in 1 spot in my life. Norm Swinford mentioned the Paloma ranch in his book. I did ask the ranches shop foreman, about why the had Allis Chalmers, and he told me they had them all, but the only ones that stood up to the desert dust, and the abuse of Mexican, and Guatemalan immigrants workers, were the Allis Chalmers
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Posted By: injpumpEd
Date Posted: 24 Jan 2025 at 5:15pm
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The AC proving grounds was not far from Gila Bend AZ if I remember right. ------------- 210 "too hot to farm" puller, part of the "insane pumpkin posse". Owner of Guenther Heritage Diesel, specializing in fuel injection systems on heritage era tractors. stock rebuilds to all out pullers! |
Posted By: CrestonM
Date Posted: 04 Mar 2025 at 6:33pm
| Going to bump this topic to the top every month or two till the show, maybe I'll reach some more people that way. I've added a section to the website, we will be selling T-shirts at the show to help raise some funds to cover the overhead costs. You have the option to put your name on a reserve list to ensure you get one at the show, as there will be a limited number. |
Posted By: Mikez
Date Posted: 04 Mar 2025 at 9:58pm
| What’s the tshirt going to be. |
Posted By: CrestonM
Date Posted: 05 Mar 2025 at 12:46pm
| If you click the link at the beginning of this thread, there is a merchandise page on the site where you can view the shirt. It’s an orange shirt with an 860 cotton stripper placed over a boll of cotton, and some details about the show. |
Posted By: bigal121892
Date Posted: 05 Mar 2025 at 6:40pm
| Is it possible to buy a t-shirt if not attending the show? |
Posted By: CrestonM
Date Posted: 06 Mar 2025 at 6:31am
| Yes, I can ship them. |
Posted By: wjohn
Date Posted: 06 Mar 2025 at 9:04pm
While on the road today watching billboards, I had the terrible thought that there's a big marketing opportunity here... "Come see Allis strip - November 14th and 15th only" but I'm not sure how well that would go over. Shameless would've been all for that, I think  I sure hope I can make it. We have some cotton up here but I don't personally know any guys that raise it, so there's a lot I'd like to learn about it. And I guarantee I have never seen any AC cotton equipment before. ------------- 1939 B, 1940 B, 1941 WC, 1951 WD, 1952 CA, 1956 WD-45 |
Posted By: Ray54
Date Posted: 07 Mar 2025 at 11:44am
Well Shameless was all about the "white stuff" or "pretty" as he often called it . 
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Posted By: Don(MI)
Date Posted: 07 Mar 2025 at 2:21pm
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I placed an order for Shirts to help support my buddy Creston and the show. Be cool if you did also! BTW the shirt looks awesome! Where else you gonna get an Allis cotton stripper t shirt? ------------- Galatians 5:22-24 "I got a pig at home in a pen and corn to feed him on, All I need is a pretty little girl to feed him when I'm gone!" |
Posted By: David Maddux
Date Posted: 07 Mar 2025 at 5:38pm
| I am putting this on my list to do this year. Probably have a couple more Allis Connection guys following me. |
Posted By: T Hunter
Date Posted: 07 Mar 2025 at 10:07pm
| Right there with you David.... I hope work doesn't interfere so I can check this out. I have always been curious about cotton farming! |
Posted By: tadams(OH)
Date Posted: 08 Mar 2025 at 1:34pm
| send back to top |