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ANTIQUE MECHANICS SOCIETY
ANNUAL MEETING
JUNE 3, 2000 at the shop
Meeting at 2:00 pm
Tri-Tip BBQ at 4:00 pm
Come and show your
support
and have a great time!
From the President:
Well it’s that time again. Time to get out the newsletter and prepare for our annual meeting. I have actually lost track of what is going on at Antique Mechanics a bit as a result of an emergency move of my stored equipment collection. I have spent the past 10 weekends moving my collection home from its storage place 90 miles away, as a result of the owner’s property being repossessed and sold. Although my personal accomplishments at Antiques have been slim the last few months, overall work has continued unimpeded thanks to our small band of active alumni (old timers) and the growing population of student club members and friends. One major recent accomplishment was the tractor sale in February. Proceeds of the sale will greatly help the establishment of the endowment fund, and removal of the excess tractors has created some much needed open space in the yard. Work on Caterpillar 1C1 is progressing well with everything but the engine and transmission now disassembled. Work is ongoing to try and get outside funding and other help that will allow us to complete the restoration this summer in time for Caterpillar’s 75th anniversary. Time is short, but we are hoping for the best. I will be returning to active duty in May and will return to my yard and building cleanup projects if 1C1 does not take precedence. There has been a fair amount of progress made in facilities clean up and maintenance in the past couple of years with much work left to go. Anyone who hasn’t been here for a couple of years will notice some real changes. The Society’s annual meeting is coming up in June and I encourage everyone to attend.
-Brian Barnett
Students and Alumni paused for this picture when the engine was freed from the Diesel Sixty in December. Pictured are: Brian Barnett, Bob Renner, Jon Moore, Nathan Fleischer, Ariel Graman, Andrew Hall, Victoria Smith, Nick Pritchard, Sue Esdaile, Joe Casino, Victor Duraj.
From the Club President
The year 2000 has definitely been a significant year for Antique
Mechanics. The driving force behind the many tasks we have been able to complete,
and all of the events we have been able to participate in, is the increase in
club membership. Twenty members now participate in the club, and many of these
members can be seen at the shop on a regular basis. As a result, much more gets
done on a work day this year than when I joined the club as a freshman. When
I joined the club in Fall '97, I was usually alone while working on machinery.
A club member from a few years back told me that it was the same when he was
a member; everyone worked on their own project. The recent increase in student
involvement at the shop allows to perform tasks in groups. True to the saying
"Two heads are better than one," working in small groups is safer, more efficient
and more educational when more "seasoned" members assist those with less experience.
It also allows members to get to know each other better, increasing the social
atmosphere of the club.
The crowd at "Friday Night Frech Fry" watching California Heartland
Videos.
This year's Picnic Day parade entry and exhibit were the best in my memory,
due to the large number of people who helped prepare the participating tractors
(and Suburban) for their longest drive of the year. For the parade, the club
members decided not to make a float, but instead, take as many tractors as possible.
Our parade entry included the following tractors: JD L, JD 2010 towing the hay
wagon, JD 7410 (borrowed from tractor driving instructor Jim Rumsey), Cletrac
20, Case CO, Allis-Chalmers WC, the crowd-pleasing Case 20-40 and the Suburban
towing last year's cow (sans rockets). The Ford 9N developed an ignition problem
minutes before the parade. It would be too weird if they all started, right!
Our Picnic Day participation didn't stop there folks. For the pre-week festivities,
we displayed the now-famous cow at the cow milking contest and pulled a hay
wagon full of candy throwing Aggie-Packers around the quad.
For years, Picnic Day was the only event that showcased the club. This year,
we have an event every month in the form of our Friday night parties. Attendance
at these parties has been growing, and for the last one it topped 90 people.
These parties feature free food, music, and tractor driving. Where else can
anyone drive a D7?
After all this partying, who has time to restore tractors? We do. Restoration
continues on the Cat 1C1, and with a little luck and a lot of work, we may make
it to Peoria after all. Other projects include the International TD6 and the
Agricat crawler, which has been affectionately named the "anger-cat"
because the list of frustrating repairs done to it is longer than the tractor.
See you at the Shop,
Nathan Fleischer
Sue Esdaile, Andrew Hall, Nick Fleisher, Victoria Smith, Ariel Graman, Tim Boucher with the Diesel Sixty transmission case.
From the Club Advisor
Well, folks, it's just GOT to be said this year again: this is going to be one year that won't be forgotten for a long time. The pages of this newsletter should include the myriad of activities that brought an unprecedented kind of vibrancy and life to the shop. It started with Bottomless Bowls of Beans and continued to be a gas all year. The monthly theme parties, with costs covered informally by several alumni, brought out over two hundred DIFFERENT people, mostly students, and provided tractor driving, ping-pong, munchies, cards, tractor videos, haywagon rides, and live music. Many of these folks participated in three or more of the seven events to date. A number of the students returned on a consistent or occasional basis for regular Saturday activities. This was a different kind of "membership and outreach" activity, for certain. Mid-year, the first "live" auction of carefully selected Collection pieces was held, generating adequate seed money (in the names of the equipment's donors) to move forward with establishing the long-awaited endowment fund. Let's add a few hauls, some serious late-night wrenching sessions, an awesome Picnic Day, major disassembly of 1C1, an updated home page for the web site, cow picture in Engineering Progress, cow picture in CAES Outlook, a feature article in Farm Collector Magazine, an appearance in the Davis Enterprise, two appearances in the Sac Bee, an appearance on California Heartland, a just-about fully running Agricat, significant repairs to a number of other machines, work on the TD6, recurring party attendance by the ASUCD President and VP and others and by Cal Aggie Student Alumni Network officers, a number of new casually participating club members, and about 8 new regularly appearing students. Yeah, it’s been a good year so far.
Victor Duraj
introduces kids to the John Deere L at Bainer Hall during Engineering Week.
Right now I would like to bring attention to two people who have worked extremely
tirelessly all year to help pull this off. Sue has kept and continues to dig
deeper and deeper to make things happen for us, so much of her work being behind
the scenes. From Caterpillar corporate to alumni relations to campus administration
to munchy runs to even grease behind the nails, she's done it. This doesn't
do justice to her efforts but, THANKS A MILLION, SUE! Those of you reading the
weekly email updates know it's been a struggle trying to keep track of what
she's been doing for us. And, trying to keep up with Sue has been Nathan. He's
been there just about every Saturday, I think, and every Friday party; he's
kept up with Student Activities; he was the sole interviewee for the Sac Bee
auction article; he's given tours to visitors and new members, scavenged starter/generators
back home, spearheaded some campus equipment appearances, and so forth. I know
I speak for all of us when I express my thanks for an effort so well done by
both of them. Let me just add that, in addition to Sue and Nathan, so many of
our alumni and student members made enormous contributions to the program, probably
going beyond their budgeted time and effort. This seems to be a little bit of
an Antiques tradition, but as the students do often hear at the shop, studies
do come first.
To those students who I've just got to know this year, let me especially say
that your participation, contributions, zeal for learning, and patience-when-needed
are recognized, appreciated, and a continuing inspiration. I continue to feel
privileged to be able to meet and work with you.
Of course, one of the most important things that help keep Antiques going is
the green stuff. The Society's ongoing official financial support helps keep
things off of the ground, and now, nearly twenty years after its formation,
it appears to be poised to make a quantum leap in terms of more permanent funding.
This year will see money go toward much-needed tools, support equipment, and
maintenance and restoration materials of course. From all of us who benefit
from this support, thank you. We would certainly love to tell you this in person
at the Annual Meeting on June 3. So, hopefully, see you then!
-Victor Duraj
Greetings to Alumni and Friends of Antique Mechanics!
At the onset, I wish to thank you (the Society members) for the extremely successful tractor auction held this past February. Not only did you raise money for establishing an important endowment, but you also gained additional focus to the collection. Overall, it was a job very well done and time well invested!
What’s new in machinery development for the department? Although our research has broadened in recent years to include engineering across the broad spectrum of biology, our primary focus remains on equipment development for agriculture. Developing hardware for precision agriculture is one area that has received considerable attention. A number of faculty have research projects in this area. Bryan Jenkins, Richard Plant, and Wes Wallender are developing GIS procedures for mapping variability of soil and plant characteristics and managing the large quantities the data in retrievable databases. Shrini Upadhyaya has focused a number of his projects on GPS associated hardware related to crop yield, soil texture and density, soil moisture, and soil fertility. Paul Chen, Ken Giles, David Hills, and David Slaughter are involved in hardware development projects related to variable rate application of fertilizers, pesticides, and irrigation water.
Yield mapping is often used to obtain an integrated effect of various spatial input variables on yield within a field. In 1998, Shrini Upadhyaya and doctoral student Matt Pelletier developed a commercial tomato yield monitor, making precision agriculture feasible for tomatoes. Once the relationship between yield and various input variables is determined on a site-specific basis, a potential yield function can be used to estimate the amount of input required at each location within the field. David Slaughter and Ken Giles have focused several projects on variable rate applicators of fertilizers and pesticides. David and Ken have worked with a number of graduate students over the years in developing site specific weed control hardware for row crops. In their current effort, David and doctoral student Ross Lamm have developed a real-time robotic weed control apparatus for cotton fields. Associated with this robot project, Shrini Upadhyaya and his students are working on the development of an "ultra precise" planter that uses a centimeter accurate RTK (real-time kinematics) GPS system for mapping individual seeds as they are planted. Shrini, Ken, and David are investigating the feasibility of interfacing this new unit with the robotic spraying system for achieving site-specific weed control and fertilizer application. With the establishment of the Joe A. Heidrick, Sr. Western Center for Agricultural Equipment, our department’s efforts in precision agriculture will be emphasized even more in the future.
The Student Club is flourishing, mainly due to the efforts of Brian Barnett, Sue Esdaile, Victor Duraj, and the Society’s Board of Directors. For certain, Society members are an inspiration to the students and an overall valuable resource to the campus. Thank you. See you in June!
David J. Hills
Chair, Bio & Ag Engineering
Sue Esdaile, Jim Killer, and Jon Moore at the "Friday Night French Fry."
The Antique Mechanics Quiz
(Solutions at the end of this document)
Picnic Day 2K
"Life's a Picnic. Let's Celebrate." The theme was not the easiest for us to work with. So, in terms of a float - yes, we had a float again - we simply yanked the rockets off of the cow and hung a club banner between the flying legs, and we pulled it with the Suburban. A small sign read "Life's a Picnic DAY. Let's CelebrEAT." In comparison to last year's Grand Stand crowd that fell silent upon seeing the cow come 'round the corner (off of California onto North Quad), this year's crowd was given reason to first laugh and then cheer. What, you ask, might bring this on? Well, the cow led our entry, and while stopped just before the corner we did not see the entry ahead move away. So, with crowd anticipation building we came 'round the corner and ALMOST cleared the first tree. The cow's neck bracing grabbed the big branch and "KACHUNK!" went the trailer/truck hitch and everything came to a dead stop. The crowd laughed. Tim calmly backed up the rig, shifted a couple of feet, and proceeded again, with the cow gingerly rubbing the underneath of the branch. The crowd cheered!
"Our" dirt lot by the Fire Station was converted to a parking lot earlier in the year, forcing us to pack all of our entries into the float staging area. Again, while requesting adequate linear space for our combined entry, we were only provided 30 feet both in the staging area and on the parade route. We lost the 9N at the staging area due to flooding/distributor cap issues. We lost the WC down West Quad due to fuel line blockage, and it was pulled the rest of the way. On a very, very positive note we had spot #25. Rumor has it that Nathan's significant other, Katherine, who served on one of the Parade committees put in a good word for us.
So, what went? The 9N (supposed to be Jacob; sorry), the WC (Andrew), the Suburban with the cow (Tim), the 20-40 (Ariel and Nathan), the CO (Abdul), the Cletrac 20 (Aziz), the L (Christina), the G-hopper with haywagon (Eddie driving plus Club members and relatives), and a newer John Deere 7410 from Ag Practices for emergency pulling (Nick M) were part of the event. Jim Keller did relief work with the Suburban and the Cletrac, and then he walked the rest.
So, was there an all-nighter? Well, one person, as usual, but most of the crew stayed till 3 or 4, and everyone but one was at the staging area by 8 am. We did have a very busy few days leading up to Saturday, with lots of people working very hard and successfully to get things ready and get brushed up on operating issues. Special thanks to Lorraine (Solomon's wife) for once again bringing a huge and tasty lasagna for the late crew. Also, special thanks to Bonnie Woosley (Christina's mom) for running some errands and helping out Friday night. Also, thanks to several students who worked hard Friday night helping out even though they had other commitments for Saturday and could not participate in the Parade.
The exhibit was well attended and made it into Sunday's Sac Bee Metro section in the form of a great 6x9 picture. We'd like to thank alumni Paul Sousa and wife Connie, Dave Schwenger and wife Becky and kids, Kevin Ganshow and his wife and kids, Alex Smith and wife Jen, and Dave Vigue and wife Susan, and an old-timer Antiquer named Larry (who has not yet followed up with an email contact) who all stopped by and visited at some point during the day. It is always great to see y'all. We hope to see you at the Annual Meeting where we can catch up a little more!
Jean Tangeman, Andrew Hall, Victoria Smith
Diesel Sixty Restoration
We have made tremendous progress on the restoration of our Diesel Sixty, serial number 1C1. In the last newsletter, our current photo showed the tractor still intact with the club members removing the seat and other accessories. Now the tractor is in much smaller pieces in the front of the shop, and the parts are being cleaned, repaired and further disassembled. Our weekend visitors walk right past the pieces (very few of them higher than your knees), not realizing that they are walking past an over-20,000 pound crawler tractor! One of our recent weekend visitors, and new member of the Antique Mechanics Society, Donald West, recognized the tractor immediately since he was involved with Antique Mechanics when the tractor was donated.
On a Saturday
in early December, the club removed the engine from the tractor. It was an exciting
day, and there was a lot of cheering when that engine finally lifted from the
frame. The students spent the rest of the day scraping away the old grease,
dirt and pine needles (from 1C1’s logging days). A few more welds were made
on the students’ custom engine stand, and by the following weekend, the engine
was on its stand.
After the engine was removed, the real grunt work began. Stubborn nuts, bolts and pins were loosened from the undercarriage and the pieces gradually removed from the machine. Nothing was easy. More broken and missing parts were identified.
One weeknight,
some of the students used the forklift to raise the frame rails and an engine
hoist to lift out the big equalizer spring. That same night, they removed both
the undercarriages. The outside bearing brackets and bolts were rusted to the
frame and the bolts had to be torched off. After separating the undercarriages,
they chained the engine hoist to the front idler, lifted the front end up and
rolled the entire unit away. Later, the final drive assemblies were removed
and the undercarriages disassembled. Considering the fair condition of the transmission
and the stench of the gear oil, the transmission has been left intact. The track
rollers are in good shape, but many hours were spent chiseling and cleaning
out dirt that was packed hard as concrete in the outside flanges of each of
those ten bottom rollers. No cheating by painting over the dirt! Thanks to Jacob
and Victoria for putting in so many hours behind a steam cleaner cleaning the
undercarriage parts. As this newsletter goes to press, these parts are being
sandblasted and primed.
The track tensioning
springs, severely bent, were disassembled with difficulty. We are going to attempt
to straighten them in an effort to conserve the original pieces of this historic
machine. Another crew of students has cut away the extra pieces welded onto
the frame rails and ground them smooth. These pieces will be preserved for future
interpretation of the tractor’s post-factory modifications for logging work.
The engine has been cleaned and external broken parts removed for repair. The
pieces of broken brass valves were drilled, chiseled, picked and then tap-chased
out of the exhaust manifold.
Thanks to Ted Halton, UCD alumnus and President of the Antique Caterpillar Machinery Owners Club (ACMOC) for donating an excellent crankshaft pulley for the project.
The early components and configuration of 1C1 have been identified, thanks to Dave Smith, also of ACMOC, who provided us with early photos of this tractor. 1C1 is apparently the only Diesel Sixty to have been fitted with caps welded across the front of each frame rail. This has allowed us to identify 1C1 in many old factory photos.
To return 1C1 to its original configuration, the diesel tank, now mounted on the right, will be mounted on the left and the controls reversed when they are reinstalled.
In addition to the long hours spent working on the tractor, the Antique Mechanics Society has put to together a proposal to partner with Caterpillar in order to obtain funding to complete the project in time. The Club would also like to have 1C1 ready for the Caterpillar 75th anniversary events in Peoria in August, and we hope to receive an invitation to attend the Caterpillar Inc. Parade of Power. We are now waiting anxiously for Caterpillar to respond to this proposal, and hopefully we will have a good announcement on this subject at our annual meeting in June!
Ariel Graman, Nathan Fleischer, James Vaughn, and Jose Casino on the Diesel
Sixty. Need we say more?
Tractor Auction
By Sue Esdaile
As a part of the ongoing efforts of reducing our inventory, cleaning up the yard and raising money towards a permanent endowment fund, Antique Mechanics held a surplus tractor auction on February 12.
Many hours of careful consideration were dedicated to assembling a slate of sale tractors. Historic importance, relevance to our purpose, duplication, condition and student safety were considered and debated for each tractor. Society members Rick, Ron, Soloman, Brian, Nathan, Victor and myself met on several Saturday mornings to decide how many of each particular type of tractor ought to remain in the collection, and exactly which tractors should be sold. The decisions were further complicated by the need to reserve some good parts that were on the sale tractors without stripping them prior to sale. A list of likely candidates and an even larger list of parts to exchange were assembled. Many hours were spent removing parts, and a lot of progress was made at a Society work party in January. Our thanks go out to Alex who took on the task of listing all the tractors on our website prior to the sale.
The many weeks
of a dry La Nina winter helped the preparations along smoothly until the week
before the sale. The rain started then and, to add to the mix, a front steering
knuckle broke on the Allis Chalmers forklift. The rain poured as we finished
swapping parts and the students dragged some of the larger Caterpillar tractors
up from the back of the yard with the D7. The mud facilitated some of the hauling;
crawlers with stuck tracks slid through the muck like giant, rusty sleds.
The new part for the forklift finally came in, and the work resumed the Friday before the sale. Jim Keller came up from Livermore to help early in the day, and several students stayed to help until dark. Victor, Jim and myself pulled an all-nighter moving tractors, spreading gravel and setting up for the sale.
At 7:30am, we had a well-attended staff meeting. Rick and Ann brought donuts and Starbucks coffee for the entire crew. They were a real lifesaver – it was quite a breakfast banquet that they spread out for us!
At 8:00am, the door opened, and the potential buyers began to arrive. At sale time, there were 100 people registered to bid (many other people there hadn’t registered) and the parking lot outside was full. Thanks to Phil Esdaile at Davis Air Repair and California Crop Improvement of UCD for allowing us to park trailers and staff vehicles in front of their hangars. Cal Aggie Hosts did a fine job of stacking visitors’ cars into the lot, and it was completely packed by sale time at 11:00am.
The rain
was down to a drizzle when auctioneer Jim Mulrooney started the auction from
his auction truck, driven by Rick. As I climbed into the truck to take my seat
and record the auction results, I was stunned by the number of people out there,
ready to bid on our tractors. This was a real live auction, folks! We didn’t
have a "this tractor being sold" sign to hold on the current sale
tractor, so JB made do with a pole with a red checked tablecloth on the end.
Thanks to Tip Holloway, UCDavis alumn and friend and coworker of both JB and
Jim Mulrooney, for serving as our volunteer ring man. He was on the ground with
the bidders encouraging them to spend a little more, and they did!
A reporter and photographer from the Sacramento Bee were there to record the event. Nathan gave them a tour of the shop and a great interview. A very nice article, describing tractors as "beanie babies for farmers," with several photos appeared the following day in the Sacramento Bee. There was a photo of JB and Tip during the sale, and a picture of Brian checking out a Thirty.
After the sale, things were hectic at the cashier’s table, but we managed to get everyone settled. Thanks to Ann for bringing a measure of sanity to that table!
Thanks to Victor, Ron, Soloman, Victoria and the students for spending the next two weeks loading the tractors and seeing them off to their new homes. The Sunday following the auction, Victor tried to sleep on the couch in between loads – the students shaking him awake when another truck come in the lot. He deserves a medal for all the time he put into loading those tractors, or a one-cylinder engine on a plaque, at least. He certainly deserves something, so in appreciation for Victor’s and Jim’s efforts, I’ve decided not to publish the photo of them asleep that afternoon on either side of the couch at Antique Mechanics!
It was an occasion we will remember for a lifetime; the bittersweet experience of watching the tractors collected over so many years as they were sold to the highest bidder. In the end, we raised $27,000 that will be a part of our future endowment fund, and the tractors are going to homes and farms where they will be preserved as well as, if not better than, at Antique Mechanics. The Cletrac AG was purchased and donated to the Ardenwood Historic Farm in Oakland where it is now a part of their collection. A new Caterpillar Thirty owner proudly displayed photos on the internet of his new tractor as it was hauled down I-80 on a trailer.
I feel truly fortunate to have had the opportunity to participate in the organization of this sale. It was scary and exhausting at times but, as they say, "what does not kill me makes me stronger!" We had one hairy day in which our tractors were posted for sale on the Bargain Barn web site two weeks before the sale and, as a reminder of the printer’s error one week prior to the sale, I still have 1000 bidder cards with my personal name and home address on them. By the day of the sale, I was ready for anything, and when the catering truck never showed up, it was the least of my worries. Now I’m looking forward to our next endeavor: putting the endowment fund to work for the Club!
Agricat: Toy or Tool?
The Antique Mechanics Collection received a donation of an Agricat in January. Victor and Andrew Hall drove up to Mendocino over the Presidents Day holiday and picked up the little crawler. They stopped by Andy Hulse’s house in Santa Rosa on the way back to say hello and check out his modest tractor collection.
Andrew Hall on the Agricat on one of the many days when it was "almost
running."
The Agricat is a tiny crawler that is powered by a 8.25 HP Briggs and Stratton engine. This is the type of machine that would have been used in landscaping and was available with a variety of attachments. The engine is connected to the transmission with v-belts and the steering clutches are two stage: first stage disconnects the drive and the second stage applies braking force to that drive.
The engine was inoperable and required numerous parts to repair. After thorough cleaning, the engine was disassembled (at least once) and the valves ground, governor parts replaced, starter motor repaired and other parts scrounged up or purchased. The students finally had it nearly running in April. It’s a fun little tractor and once a few more mechanical details are figured out it should be popular at the future Friday night get-togethers. Its current gearing makes it too slow for Picnic Day Parade, and its stamped steel pads will require some sort of shoes if the tractor is configured for a Parade appearance.
New Set of Web Pages
Check out the new supplemental set of web pages at http://tractors.ucdavis.edu. In the new pages you can see some Friday Night party and CAT 1C1 pictures. The tractors.ucdavis.edu homepage is intended to be something busy, colorful, and hopefully catchy to the student and to serve possibly also as a flyer or handout on its own. The Ag Machinery Collection subset of this site is cleaner and simpler and intended to someday serve as a link from the award-winning College of Ag & ES site. The Collection and Society links on the new tractors site connect to the existing pages at http://www.engr.ucdavis.edu/~antiques. Alex has done a terrific job with that site, and he posts all the newsletters complete with color photos. Thanks, Alex!
Blast from the past: loading the Case steamer.
Antique Mechanics Society
Executive Committee 1999-2000
Student Club Members 1999-2000
Members:
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Aziz Abidine |
Myles Anderson |
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Scot Bohnenstiel |
Tim Boucher |
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Joe Casino |
Ariel Graman |
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Andrew Hall |
Dan Jenkins |
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Michal Koller |
Michelle Leinfelder |
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Nick Madden |
Mark Mattson |
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Eddie Mayda |
Hung Pham |
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Nick Pritchard |
James Schwei |
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Mikko Soloman |
Jean Tangeman |
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Abdul Tchala |
James Vaughn |
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Justin Whitaker |
Matt Yore |
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Sam Zarghami |
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Michal Koller, Nathan Fleischer and Nick Madden at "Friday Night French Fry." The monthly Friday Night Parties since the last newsletter were: Friday Night French Fry, Chimichongas and Chractors, Crackers and Crawlers, Dozers and Dogs, and Cornucopia of Quesadillas. The next party is scheduled for May 5, La Noche de Nachos. In addition to the theme food of the night, the fun includes tractor videos, tractor rides, hay rides, ping pong, live music and an open mic (there is no gong – not yet anyway!)
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