Really good weather this year helped create a great day. This years event had more commercial exhibitors and some generous new sponsors. Leading attractions included wagon rides, Rotorua Axe men and women, crafts and craft stalls, shearing, vintage cars, old and new tractors and farming machines, pony club gymkhana.
Pipe band ready to lead Grand Parade
Wagon rides horses
Kids rides and craft stalls
Craft stalls and kids activities
More craft stalls and kids activities
Yet more craft stalls and kids activities
Commercial exhibits
Modern maize harvester up close
Modern maize harvesters up close
Extreme boats exhibit
Vintage cars, trucks and fire engine
Some 100 year old tractor exhibits with gymkhana in background
More vintage tractors
Vintage balers and milking machine
Small garden tractors
Chaff cutter in action powered by Bamford diesel engine
Vintage horizontal stationary engine
Vintage horizontal stationary engine
Phil - the John Deere named in memory of Phil Leaming
Waterwheel Farmall F12
Vintage New Holland baler
Vintage IHC baler
Vintage IHC tractor
Ferguson TEA sitting on fergie jack
Axemen arena
Axemen preparing for action
More axemen preparing for action
Yet more axemen preparing for action
Axewomen in action
Winner, best dressed scarecrow