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Working Under Pressure

Even though our familiar acronym, “MMOGTA”, now seems almost like a word to many, and our rather cumbersome complete name, “Mid Michigan Old Gas Tractor Association” simply won’t fit into any of the many paperwork forms that modern life requires, there is a little history behind the tongue twister that some might not know.

It is just normal human nature, I guess, that causes many of us to become territorial, possessive, and protective about our stuff, our locale, our family, even our hobbies. And so it was when our club started out. Many know the story, but I’ll recap in brief for those who don’t. The small group of local farmers around Oakley had an interest in old farm tractors, machinery, and practices. They learned of an existing organization an hour or so away that held an annual show for such hobbyists, where threshing crews and sawyers put on demonstrations for the public. An antique Huber tractor that had been in the family of one of our founding members was loaded up and hauled to the Expo for a planned weekend of fun. However, in a fateful turn of events, when they arrived, with plans to belt the Huber up to the thresher or sawmill or whatever, they were told to park it by the fence, since that was a “Steam” show. Gas powered tractors were to be parked by the fence and seen but not heard. Our founders, being the independent sorts they were, wasted little time re-loading the Huber and heading back to Oakley. “To hell with that bunch of snobs”, they said, and started their own show a year or two later, where their gas powered tractors were the “chosen ones”. Hence the deliberate inclusion of the word “gas” in our corporate title, which has never fit into a paperwork form or computer data window since.

But that’s history now, we’re still here, growing by leaps and bounds, and still doing business under the same nameplate, true to our founder’s ideas. However, we do look at the world a little more democratically than some other organizations, and we very well recognize the validity of the many different preferences and interests that abide beneath our ever-expanding tent. Yup, that’s right, we CAN all just get along. If Steam is your thing, and there’s pressure in your pipes, we’ve got a place for you too. All this just as a way to let you know that, despite our very specific sounding title, we do a little external combustin’ here, too. Quite a little, both in the stationary form and the mobile form. Enjoy some photos below of some of the many devices that, in today’s vernacular, might be called “alternative fuel” machines.

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