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The Old Ponderosa, Farmall F-12 !

06/27/2022 by ST Leave a Comment

Back around 1950, the boys were mowing hay at Lake Tahoe when the motor started to overheat and steam. They tried to get back to the ranch house for water but did not make it.  They burned a hole through the cylinder wall and there she sat for a year or two.

The Ponderosa Museum took the tractor and put it under a big old tree for the kids to play on. She sat there for about 70 years and then was headed for the junkyard. My son, Bill Jr. saw it and knew his Dad had to have it out on the ranch. I think he paid $50.00 for it and sent it out to me in 2019.

I had rebuilt an F-12 before so this was not new to me.  However, I was 83 years old at that time and I sure had my hands full. Two years later, in late 2021 I had it all back together but was not strong enough to crank it! So step two was to install the Flex plate, starter, and then alternator and a small dashboard. Now WOW, just touch the pedal, and off she goes.

Bill Watson Sr.
Lamoille, Nevada

Take Me Out to the Ballgame

06/20/2022 by ST Leave a Comment

Jeff with his anniversary statue.
Happy 30th Anniversary Jeff!
Comerica Park Lego Set.
Dan Steiner, Jeff Koresh and Dawn Miller

Employees celebrated Jeff Koresh’s 30-year anniversary on Friday, June 17th, 2022 with lunch from Panera purchased by Steiner Tractor Parts, and a tasty tractor cake.

At the beginning of Jeff’s career at Steiner Tractor Parts he worked various warehouse duties at our original location in Grand Blanc, Michigan. He began to oversee shipping, receiving, and has supervised many warehouse functions over the years. We appreciate Jeff’s dedication then and now as Warehouse Operations Manager.

For Jeff’s 30th anniversary he received an engraved sculpture, a Comerica Park lego set, and a trip to Pennsylvania to see the Atlanta Braves and Philadelphia Phillies play at Citizens Park. We all wish Jeff a happy anniversary and hope he has a wonderful time on his trip!

1951 Massey Harris 30

06/15/2022 by ST Leave a Comment

The tractor is a 1951 Massey Harris model 30. It has the original F162 Continental Engine. It is owned by Paul Moroni of West Bridgewater, Massachusetts. It was purchased locally from the original owner.

Paul has restored it and owned it for over 20 years now. It has become part of the family. It will someday be passed down to his daughters. 

Lynda Ellis
Middleboro, Massachusetts
Tractor Photo Contest Winner

Chevron Tractor Restoration Competition

06/10/2022 by ST Leave a Comment

The Chevron Tractor Restoration Competition (formerly known as Delo TRC) is celebrating its 25th year and now accepting entries for the 2022 competition!

This prestigious national competition, open to high-school students across the US, is a lot of hard work, but also a lot of fun, and provides the opportunity to learn and grow — both professionally and personally — with hands-on exposure to real world skills! The competition awards prizes totaling up to $20,000. For more information, visit ChevronTRC.com

June Featured Photo

06/02/2022 by ST Leave a Comment

Grandpa’s Red Fever Tractor Collection


Front Row – Right to Left – Farmall Super AV High Crop, Farmall H, Farmall Super H, Farmall Super HTA, Farmall M, Farmall MTA, Farmall 300.  
Back Row – Right to Left – Farmall 350 Diesel, Farmall 450 Diesel, Farmall 460 Diesel, Farmall 504, 544 International Harvester, International Harvester 656 Hydro.  

My father-in-law, Dennis White, retired in 2013.  He decided he needed a hobby and took an interest in locating tractors to restore.  To date, he has fully restored 13 tractors and is currently working on his 14th. 

Dennis retired from being a mechanic at a tractor implement dealership where he worked on farmers’ tractors every day.  So, it only makes sense that his love for tractors did not stop at retirement.  He continues to add additional tractors to his collection as he comes across tractors that need to be restored.  As a family, we enjoy sharing these tractors with others by riding in numerous tractor rides, parades, and sometimes just a stroll around our town on a nice day.

Dena White
Osceola, Iowa
2022 Tractor Photo Contest Winner

July Birthdays and Anniversaries

06/01/2022 by ST Leave a Comment

Birthdays

5th – Mandy Woodall – Tech & Returns Team Supervisor

11th – Dawn McCormick – Special Orders

18th – Elizabeth Whiting – Marketing Team

18th – Jacob Ford – Receiving Team

19th – Matt Pilliod – Accounting Team

19th – Ron Arriaga – Customer Service Team

Anniversaries

16th – Eric Carlisle – 7 years – Receiving Team

18th – Dawn Miller – 27 years – General Manager

26th – Ted Turnwald – 1 year – Tech Team

31st – Craig Craven – 13 years – Purchasing and Pricing Manager

Parade Tractor

05/31/2022 by ST Leave a Comment

My husband, David, purchased this 1941 SC Case at an auction 6 years ago.  Since he purchased it, it has been in numerous parades and displayed in our front yard for Memorial Day, 4th of July, and Labor Day weekends.  It has also participated in the Mackinaw Bridge Drive twice.  He uses it around the farm for light-duty jobs.   If you mention a parade or tractor show, David will be there to participate.

Charlene Shumaker
Bellevue, Michigan
2022 Tractor Photo Contest Winner

1950 CO-OP E-4 Buda 262 motor

05/26/2022 by ST Leave a Comment

1950 Co-Op

Originally utilized at a farm located near Ann Arbor, Michigan. As technology brought new tractors, this Co-Op was then utilized to haul crops from the field to the farm for storage. The tractor was discovered in the field row, almost out of life, and purchased. It was re-built to the current condition by Gary Baker and Warren Townsend. In its new life, it is a Division 2 puller and has won numerous pulls it has entered. It will spend the rest of its life within our family. 

Bill Parker
Goodrich, Michigan
2022 Tractor Photo Contest Winner

3 Days Only! Show Season Savings

05/25/2022 by ST Leave a Comment

Tractor show season is here and so are the savings. Do you need a part to get your tractor to the show? Make sure and take advantage of our savings May 25th-27th, 2022 11:59pm EST.

$25 off your retail order of $150 use coupon code SHOWSEASON Offer Expired

Retail orders only. Order minimum must be $150 or more not including tax and delivery charges. Discount is not redeemable on special order items or gift cards, and cannot be combined with other special offers or sales.

Future Farmer and Tractor Guy

05/12/2022 by ST Leave a Comment

My name is Mason Smoker and I am 14 years old. I have a dream of farming for my whole life. I just bought a Farmall M to farm and pull with. It is a fairly stock tractor, but some little upgrades. It has an M&W live hydraulic kit on it, a homemade hitch, and front/back weight bracket. I have taken it to the antique tractor pull and it did well. I love antique tractors and will always do it the old way. 

Mason Smoker
Parkesburg, Pennsylvania

1954 Allis Chalmers WD-45

05/04/2022 by ST Leave a Comment

My tractor is a 1954 Allis Chalmers WD-45. It’s been in our family since the late 1970s or early 1980s (not exactly sure when it was acquired). I use it for planting food plots and general tasks around my 40-acre hunting parcel in Gladwin County, Michigan. It’s definitely an old workhorse!

Darren Bartnik

Darren was our April 2022 monthly review winner, he received a $25 Steiner Tractor Parts gift card. A winner is drawn from all of the reviews submitted to us in the previous month. Congratulations Darren!

May Featured Photo

05/03/2022 by ST 3 Comments

This is my grandfather’s 1947 Case VAC. My grandfather retired in the early 2000s from dairy farming. Once retired, he was not very active, and my family knew this would be a problem. As a solution, my family purchased this tractor and presented it to him for Father’s Day. The plan was to help him restore the tractor, and he could then take it to the local fairs to show and pull it in the antique tractor pulls.

He pulled this tractor for many years and won many trophies with it. It helped him get out of the house and stay active, especially during the Summer months. Unfortunately, he is no longer able to use the tractor due to his age and health, so I have taken the tractor under my wing and started pulling it and having fun with it as he did for many years.

Brad Turner
Wattsburg, Pennsylvania
2022 Tractor Photo Contest Winner

June Birthdays and Anniversaries

05/02/2022 by ST Leave a Comment

Birthdays

1st – Craig Craven – Purchasing & Pricing Manager

8th – Logan Clark – Overstock Team

13th – Toni Sprague – Customer Service Team

21st – Dee Hunt – Customer Service Team

28th – Lisa Warren – Customer Service Team

29th – Jill Horski – Customer Service Team

Anniversaries

14th – Natasha Root – 1 year – Customer Service Team

14th – Nichole Fink – 1 year – Shipping Team

15th – Andrew Wilberding – 23 years – Marketing Team Supervisor

17th – Jeff Koresh – 30 years – Warehouse Manager

20th – Dan Steiner – 21 years – President

1953 Ford Jubilee

04/27/2022 by ST 1 Comment

1953 Ford Jubilee, with Davis Loader. I have owned this for 21 years! Great little tractor.

About 19 years ago, I completely disassembled and rebuilt everything. It has been fun using it in tractor pulls, putting in lawns, pulling firewood, plowing snow, plowing, and discing. I have the original bucket, but use the bigger one I designed and built. 

Scott Andrews

Scott was our March 2022 monthly review winner, he received a $25 Steiner Tractor Parts gift card. A winner is drawn from all of the reviews submitted to us in the previous month. Congratulations Scott!

The Family Ford 9N

04/21/2022 by ST Leave a Comment

This was my wife’s grandfather’s Ford 9N, he got it new in 1943. When he passed away it sat in the barn for 30 years. My wife’s dad wanted it so bad, and when his mom passed away she left it to him.

I took it and restored it for him and he was so happy with it. He would just go out and set on it for hours. Now he’s gone and my wife has it. It will go to our son next and I hope it will stay in our family. The Family Ford 9N.

Tim Kirk
Marengo, Ohio

Ford 9N Clearing the Snow

04/20/2022 by ST Leave a Comment

Thanks for featuring older tractors working hard.  Thought you might be interested in seeing my hard-working 1941 Ford 9N with loader and back blade clearing a lot of snow up here in Northwestern Ontario, Canada.  

This tractor has been doing this work on our rural property for over 30 years.

Glenn Burton

Case L Tractor

04/19/2022 by ST Leave a Comment

We are buyers and sellers of vintage tractors, based in the UK. 

This Case L tractor was purchased from a fellow collector in Devon recently. It is a striking tractor with a great presence and a powerful sound to match!

The serial plate of our tractor begins with 440 which allows us to date this as a 1940 build, which would have been one of the last built before the Case LA took its place on the production line.

Very little is known about the life of this tractor but it has clearly been sympathetically restored at some point.

Kindest regards

Sarah Young
Tavistock, Devon, United Kingdom

May Birthdays and Anniversaries

04/14/2022 by ST Leave a Comment

Birthdays

1st – Charlet Beckley – Customer Service team

15th – Logan Wagner – Shipping Team

20th – Rachel Allen – Customer Service Team Supervisor

23rd – Jayce Zimmerman -Inventory Control Team

27th – Amanda Mrva – Customer Service Team

Anniversaries

1st – Travis Pierce – 12 years (Shipping Team)

5th – Michael Mackenzie – 8 years (IT)

5th – Amanda Mrva – 14 years (Customer Service Administrative Team)

6th – Deona Vorhies – 12 years (Purchasing Team)

16th – Jacob Ford – 5 years (Receiving Team)

20th – Jenny Bradshaw – 26 years (Vice President)

21st – Logan Wagner – 4 years (Shipping Team)

28th – Kory Meyers – 7 years (Purchasing Team)

Oliver 770 Brought Back to Life

04/08/2022 by ST 2 Comments

This Ollie was built in Charles City, Iowa and sent to Brighton, Michigan. It was then sent to a dealer in St Johns, Michigan who must have leased it to our Lake Odessa Canning Company where we assumed it remained for several years as my wife’s brother and their father purchased it somewhere in the mid to late 1960s.

Larry farmed with it up into the 1970s when he purchased a larger White. Their father did not want it sold so he bought it from his son and kept it for odd use around the farm. Before he passed away, he gave it to his daughter Kathy who I married.

The tractor was left in the upper area of the barn and pretty much remained until we decided we needed to get it running and bring it to our barn where we could fix her up. One thing turned into another,…..first front tires weather checked,…which means clean up the wheels (sandblasted and powder coating to get it down from the upper level of the barn). Cleaned gas delivery system, started her up,….we drove it to its new home.

Fall was setting in so we power washed it and parked it in our barn for more going over. Long story short,……I worked on it most of Winter 2019 and we could see it was now more of a restoration than simply getting it working. We started back in the Spring when COVID rolled in. Lots of phone calls and parts trips to several Oliver junkyards,…..sanding and painting,….gas tank renewal,…..new gauges, many hours wiring we eventually parked it in our yard to remove back wheels and tires,….THAT WAS A BIG EXPENSE! But now all new tires and powder coated wheels,…..NICE!

By the Clarksville Steam and Gas Show she was ready to make her way to visit the public. Grandson Ben Scobey drove her the 6 or so miles to the show and she sat for others to check her out. We still have a couple items to work on yet,…front axel bushings need replacing and the clutch could use some help. It has the Power Boost so that may be a major job.

Mike Scobey
Lake Odessa, Michigan

April Featured Photo

04/02/2022 by ST Leave a Comment

A strength to draw inspiration from, like the East Tennessee Smokey Mountains, this 1939 Model A John Deere joins primary “Seasoned” caretakers, David Banks and Golden Retriever sidekick, Whiskey, when taking care of a 6th generation family farm.

Although the Model A was not in the best of shape when first making an entrance to the farm, after much-needed care and repair, it now works beautifully when answering the call of an active farm life. 

Mata Banks
New Tazewell, Tennessee
2022 Tractor Photo Contest Winner

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