Learning about grandpa through tractor restoration

My son never got to meet his grandpa who restored old John Deere tractors. My ex-husband helped his dad restore them, and when we had our son we got him right on the John Deere. 

To this day we tell him stories of his grandpa and all about how he restored tractors. In the pictures you will see my son and his dad on two John Deeres. The one with the loader belongs to my ex-husband and the other one is grandpas’, which he restored many years ago! Now my son is starting to get his own John Deere.

Jennifer Struemke
Ellsworth, Wisconsin

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