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PaulRoidt(WI) 
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Posted: 11 Sep 2010 at 4:09pm |
Had a great time at the AC Event in the Netherlands. Meet some forum member/readers, can't remember all the handles. Check out a post on the SmokStak, for some pictures. http://www.smokstak.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=22Five from the US attended. I enjoyed meeting Cindy, Chris, Doug and Dean. Paul
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CTuckerNWIL
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Posted: 11 Sep 2010 at 4:54pm |
I think that would be a great to go back to where one of my Grandfathers was born and look at tractors and meet new AC friends.It looks like there was plenty of moisture before the show. 
Edited by CTuckerNWIL - 11 Sep 2010 at 4:58pm
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Posted: 12 Sep 2010 at 7:51am |
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Paul glad to here your trip was good. Talk with when you get back.
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Posted: 12 Sep 2010 at 7:29pm |
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Hope you are having a good time everybody says hi Cannot wait to to see you when you get back and fill us in on everything you do Gary and Family
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Posted: 13 Sep 2010 at 4:26am |
I was also on the show. It was again a very nice and wonderfull show. Bert Schoo and his family has done a great job to organise this event. It's held every 5 years and it get bigger and bigger. Bert told us at the end of the day that they where 63 tractors on his farm at the show. It's a record!
To get 63 A-C's together here in the Netherlands is really impressive.
Me, my girlfriend and my father and mother where at the show with our D17 diesel and my 190XT. Also with us was a friend of my father with his '37 WC. We meet very nice people from the States like Dean Bearly and his son, a very kind person wich i would like to thank for meet him. Also Paul (was it you who was wearing a short pants).
I made ton's of pictures that I will post this week.
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Johan Straver
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Posted: 13 Sep 2010 at 2:39pm |
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Johan, did you clean your tractors already? We started cleaning yesterday and I finished it today. My rotobaler arrived also at home today. It was a great day!!
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Posted: 13 Sep 2010 at 2:56pm |
Great picture:  (and you guys said all the old irion was going to China!)
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Posted: 13 Sep 2010 at 4:22pm |
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Anybody know what the first tractor is? It kinda looks like a snap couple highcrop B with side panels from the steering column to the torque tube. Looks like it might have a long tube, maybe sherman tranny? Guess it could be a CA.
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Posted: 13 Sep 2010 at 11:59pm |
C Tucker, that's a AC D270, build in England. We have a lot of D270 and D272 tractors here. They are not rare here, but to find a good original example is also difficult. We had one last year from France, very complete and original with straight panels. Tonight I will put also my pics on the forum.
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Posted: 14 Sep 2010 at 1:24am |
Hello Jan,
Yes, I cleaned the 190 yesterday evening. I did it with an high pressure cleaner. It was the only way to clean the tractor. The heavy clay soil was sitting all over and on the tires it's was very hard to clean.
Now he is clean so I can back to Bert to finish my work , LOL
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Posted: 14 Sep 2010 at 1:43am |
Nice photo of my dad (in red Farmall outfit............) and his fellow on the '37 WC having trouble with the chiselplow when it's getting stuck in the clay soil.
Edited by Dutchboy Johan - 14 Sep 2010 at 1:44am
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PaulRoidt(WI)
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Posted: 14 Sep 2010 at 4:45pm |
Johan,
Yes that's Me. Maybe next time it will be drier, so you can put the digger in the ground and let the 190XT work, it will sound wounderful.
I'll put up some pictures when I get home.
Allisjan,
I believe it was your WC with tip toe steel, it really showed the conditions those wheels were designed to be used in.
Paul
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Posted: 14 Sep 2010 at 6:16pm |
 allisjan wrote:
C Tucker, that's a AC D270, build in England. We have a lot of D270 and D272 tractors here. They are not rare here, but to find a good original example is also difficult. We had one last year from France, very complete and original with straight panels. Tonight I will put also my pics on the forum.
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A little better image: 
"Production of the Model B started in 1937 and ran for 17 years until
1954 when it was restyled and badged the D270. The D270 was not a new
model, the only difference to the Model B been the tinwork and an
uprated engine. The final variation came when the D270 became the D272,
although any alterations were only superficial."
Edited by CJohnS MI - 14 Sep 2010 at 6:22pm
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Posted: 14 Sep 2010 at 6:25pm |
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Do any of you know if Jan Van de Veen was at the show. He, his wife and daughter were at our GOTO North in Maine in 2007. They live in the Netherlands. Bob@allisdowneast
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Posted: 14 Sep 2010 at 8:35pm |
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CJohn, That looks to be an all fuel unit. It has the starter tank on the right side of the hood like the all fuel B's. The lift arms look like they are in the same position as a Snap Couple CA.
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Posted: 14 Sep 2010 at 8:43pm |
CTuckerNWIL wrote:
CJohn, That looks to be an all fuel unit. It has the starter tank on the right side of the hood like the all fuel B's. The lift arms look like they are in the same position as a Snap Couple CA. |
I confess to knowing little or nothing about 'em Charlie, just as you though, that one jumped out at me in Paul's pic. The other pics I found on the web all had that same basic sheet metal though. We Americans still live insular, USA-centric lives in spite of "globalization", don't we? Oh, one other pic of a B270 I found had really neat front wheels - kind of like orange "moonies". Like as not though, it'll turn out that those wheels are common as dirt.
Edited by CJohnS MI - 14 Sep 2010 at 8:45pm
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Posted: 15 Sep 2010 at 1:37am |
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Posted: 19 Sep 2010 at 6:01pm |
Finally back in the office and finished going through the 800 pictures I took on my nine day trip.
I had a very good time at the AC Event talking with many people throughout the day. Johan has done an excellent job of covering the event with his pictures so please check out his thread also if you have not already.
There are just a few things that I would like to add:
First, Bert has a terrific place to have the show, but the parking would scare most exhibitors away in the US.
It looked like the trucks were parked a mile down the road.
The biggest difference I saw in the tractors at the AC event, compared to the tractors we see in the US was the retention of the all or two fuel set ups. Many of the B, WC, WD, and WD-45 tractors were set-up that way. So it was interesting to see the factory set-ups for using low grade fuel.
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Paul
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Posted: 19 Sep 2010 at 6:23pm |
I would also Like to thank my gracious hosts Chris and Hedric Clemens they have a Longfender and I met them on the SmokStak web site, where we became friends.
Here is a picture of Hedric on the Longfender, I didnot get any pictures of Chris.
More pictures of the AC Event and the rest of my trip at
Went to the National Railway Museum in York, UK
I also visited Trickie Dickie's in England and have a wonderful time talking with him.
Pictures of Amsterdam and London.
Hope you enjoy
Paul
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Posted: 20 Sep 2010 at 4:35am |
Thank you for sharing Paul. Nice picture's, I wondered that Dick has an A in his collection.
It was a pleassure to meet you. And I hope that we wil see you next time.
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Posted: 20 Sep 2010 at 7:10am |
Hey Paul, It was great to have you visit. I only wish that you had had a little more time to stay over and visit Stakker Alistair Robertson in Scotland with me the next day. Still, there's never enough time and you did get to see the Railway museum and some of London before you went home. I wish that I had been able to go to the Dutch Allis show; it looks to have been a great event, but at least I have planned to go to the Gijs Koolen working show in Holland next August with my 30-60 Allis.
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Tricky D
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