18 CapitalPress.com
November 13, 2015
Antique equipment a popular attraction
By GEOFF PARKS
For the Capital Press
Geoff Parks/For the Capital Press
Jack Muirhede poses with his restored 1954 Farmall Super W 6 tractor at his home near Jefferson, Ore. It will be one of about 100 an-
tique pieces of equipment displayed at this year’s Willamette Valley Ag Expo.
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The annual Antique Farm
Equipment Display is feel-
ing the squeeze of success
at the Willamette Valley Ag
Expo.
As the Expo continues to
grow, space for the antique
display is at a premium.
Expo Manager Scott In-
galls was forced to recon-
figure the antique show this
year.
“The front (of the Cas-
cade Livestock Pavilion) is
completely full, sold out to
the rafters,” he said.
He said this year the
farm equipment display
will occupy the middle of
the building and extend to
the south.
The display typically
offers nearly 100 pieces of
equipment.
This year’s display har-
kens back to earlier shows,
in which the diversity of
the collections is allowed
to shine.
Some of the machines
this year represent a part of
Jack Muirhede’s collection
of Farmall equipment.
This year, he said, he is
bringing a 1954 Super W
ment Display put into the
restoration efforts neces-
sary to bring the vehicles
back to life, Muirhede de-
scribes the metamorphosis
of his Farmall Super W 6
tractor.
“My son (Jack Muirhede
III) found it in an apple or-
chard with a tree growing up
through it and full of bullet
holes,” Muirhede said. He
patched the holes with body
filler, then “welded and
pounded on them” to make
them disappear. He left one
open and painted over it
just to show the tractor’s
history.
He “freed up” the fro-
zen engine, overhauled it
in the frame, and recon-
ditioned the exterior, re-
painting it in Farmall red
in his custom-built home
paint shop, making it show-
ready.
He will join nearly 100
other such renaissance men
and women all three days
of the Antique Farm Equip-
ment Display at the Expo
— Nov. 17, 18 and 19 —
in the Cascade Livestock
Pavilion at the Linn Coun-
ty Fair & Expo Center in
Albany.