Portland & Coolspring Swap Meets

[LCJudge]

Anyone attended these and wish to comment on how things are going? Any special "prizes" show up? Attendance and number of vendors? I sure wished I could have made it to Coolspring. Events have required me to stay close to home however.

[Tom Winland]

I know the feeling Tommy, I'm having to stay close to home too

[Brady]

I've been up @ Portland the past 2-days. The weather has been decent for this time of year(no mud).I'm heading back tomorrow for a half day.We've had a nice turnout of vendors & the crowd was growing today.There is alot of everything in the vendor areas, mainly garden tractors & parts, but there are several of us gas engine collectors there as well.People are buying & selling items if they are priced to sale.I've had several newbies buying & asking questions about gas engines,which is great to see new people interested in the hobby.This fall swapmeet is growing larger each year, & could be as big as the spring swapmeet in the future.

[Steve Kreiner]

Coolspring RAIN RAIN RAIN and the ground was half full if that when I left a 10 am this morning.

[Mike Monnier]

The weather finally broke around noon yesterday at Coolspring. But, the rain drops were falling again by 1:00. It was off and on showers most of the afternoon until 2:30 or so. The field was emptying fast on Friday morning, but Dad & I stayed until almost 5:00 soaking in all of the engines and visiting friends. Crappy weather or not, it still beat being at work!!

[Junkologist]

The weather yesterday at Portland was awesome! Although there was tons of lawnmower stuff, I still manged to bring two flywheel engines home, along with a small Johnson Iron Horse washing machine engine.

Got both engines running today in short order. The Hercules needs more tinkering.

[engine nut]

portland. nice if you like tractor parts tires and forklifts and parts. lots of lawnmowers. lawn mower handles. some engines,

[8fh11lb]

Thursday and Friday were both good at Coolsprings. Picked up a Maytag 72, a Johnson Iron Horse and a Power Products 1000. Lots of vendors and buyers. Still wish I would have found a decent priced Briggs FH.

[Ronald E. McClellan]

I don't know when some of these guys were at Coolspring , their posts are dated Oct,14,15,16,17. The show started Thursday Oct. 18. I arrived thursday morning 8:45 AM. It was cloudy and windy with the sun peaking out once in a while. I kept my jacket on but no rain all day. About 6:00 PM there was a light sprinkle of rain and over the next hour the rain came in and it rained most of the night and hard at times. On friday I was there 7:30 Am and it was still cloudy but by 8:00 the sky was clearing and we had clear blue sky all day. It was warm and could not ask for a more beautiful fall day. There may have a few small mud puddles from the night before around but not anything like in previous years. If you wanted to walk in a mud puddle you would have go out of your way to do it. There was a mist of rain early Saturday morning but no rain. I left about 12:00 Ron

[Kirk Taylor]

Originally Posted by Ronald E. McClellan

I don't know when some of these guys were at Coolspring , their posts are dated Oct,14,15,16,17. The show started Thursday Oct. 18...... Ron

Ron,

Take a gander at the year of those posts; 2011. 'Tis now 2012.

Kirk

[Ronald E. McClellan]

WOW I missed that one! I didn't expect last years show thread to show up this year. I have to blame it on one of those senior moments. Ron