Family John Deere H back home

This is my grandpa’s 1945 John Deere Model H. His dad first bought this brand-new tractor in 1945 and then traded it in for a Farmall. Years later, in 2016, my grandpa found the John Deere on auction and bought it back. The only way he knew it was his dad’s was because the fan blades were painted yellow instead of green, and the lug nuts and wheel hubs were painted green instead of the John Deere factory yellow. My grandpa and I restored it from 2016 to 2021. Now, we use this tractor to pull floats and drive in parades.

Landon Claflin
Elmwood, Wisconsin

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