Each day at 1pm the Grand Parade of Antique Tractors will be led by an Honour Guard provided by The California Historical Artillery Society (CHAS). They will also be bringing their Mobile Forge (Ca 1861) for blacksmithing demonstrations through out the event.

CHAS is a non-profit, educational organization dedicated to preserving the life and times of historic artillery. CHAS has been recognized as the most authentic and highly trained horse drawn artillery unit in the country, second only to the present day United States Army's permanent demonstration detachment at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. They can be recognized for supplying the first horses to set hooves on Angel Island State Park since the US Army ceased utilizing equines so many decades ago, as providing the only horse drawn Caisson for funerals outside of Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia, and as participating in historical festivities throughout the nation. CHAS is currently the largest mounted artillery re-enacting unit in the United States, and has about 100 members from the central California area. The current group has over 40 horses and 4 full scale cannons, which include two 3" Ordnance Rifles, one 10 pound parrot rifle and a 10 pound Howitzer. We also have four limbers, a caisson, 2 supply wagons, an ambulance, mobile forge and battery wagon.