54th annual event set for July 23-25
By Greg Seubert
Symco is ready to roll out the red carpet for the Union Thresheree.
The Union Thresherman’s Club will hold the 54th annual event Friday to Sunday, July 23-25, at the community’s thresheree grounds at E6361 State Highway 22, Manawa.
Case tractors and equipment and Stover gas engines will be featured this year.
The schedule for each day includes:
Friday, July 23
• 7 a.m.: Gates open.
• 3 p.m.: Case tractor pull.
• 7:30 p.m. to 11:30 p.m.: Music by Driftwood.
Saturday, July 24
• 7 a.m.: Gates open.
• 8:30 a.m.: Weigh-in.
• 9:30 a.m.: Kids pedal pull.
• 11 a.m.: Antique tractor pull.
• 7 a.m. to 10 a.m.: Registration and sale open.
• 7:30 p.m. to 11:30 p.m.: Music by the Toys.
• 9 p.m.: Adult pedal pull.
Sunday, July 25
• 7 a.m.: Grounds open.
• 7:30 a.m.: Church service at Unionville Church.
• 11:30 a.m.: Parade.
• 1 p.m.: Garden tractor pull.
• 3 p.m.: Antique power chainsaw contest.
Most events will take place in the town of Unionville on the thresheree grounds, which features a church, school, bank, fire and police station, saloon, tractor repair shop, barbershop, post office, print shop, blacksmith shop, log cabins, general store, shoe shop, sawmill, welcome barn and water-powered feed mill.
Breakfast will be served from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. each day and displays will include antique steam engines and gas tractors; gas engines; oil pulls; a blacksmith shop; old log houses; old farm machinery exhibits; and a farm machinery museum.
Scheduled demonstrations include combining grains; running engines; threshing grain; baling; rock crushing; shelling and grinding corn; plowing; sawing logs and shingles; and silo filling.
A flea market will also be set up.
Admission is $5 per day. Children 12 and under and veterans with an ID are admitted for free.
Visit www.symcoutc.com for more details.