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Birthdays
13th – Tara Chapin – Returns Team
20th – Randy Fenner – Store Team
22nd – Justin Dumond – Shipping Team
23rd – Angie Hayes – Customer Service Team
28th – Marvin Tobey – Tech Team
Anniversaries
6th – Derrick Brown – 10 years (Shipping Team)
11th – Patti Pierce – 20 years (Customer Service Team)
19th – Jill Horski – 7 years (Customer Service Team)
When we purchased our house 6 years ago it was so overgrown with weeds and grass. We live on 3 acres and needed something that could handle the job until we could get the fence installed and the horses moved in.
My dad found this tractor for sale and talked us into buying it. I’m an Allis Chalmers girl so I was hesitant to purchase anything that wasn’t orange. We got this Famall H home and named her Helga. As far as we know she was all original and we were the 2nd owners.
The girls in front of Helga from left to right include Bree which is a 1-year-old Border Collie and Reba who is a 13-year-old Blue Heeler. Reba moved in with us when we purchased the house and Bree was an anniversary gift to my husband after his dog passed away. Both Bree and Reba love to play fetch and enjoy “helping” with the horses.
Cassie Mack
Harvard, Illinois
2022 Tractor Photo Contest Winner
I am 31 years old now and active on the family farm. The John Deere A was my Grandpa’s and as far as I can remember that was the first tractor I remember driving!
I mostly use it for raking hay, hauling manure, plowing with the 3-bottom plow he used with it back in the day, and tractor rides. I was able to buy the tractor after Grandpa passed away. I cherish it every Spring when I pull it out of the shed!
Jordan Jensen
Audubon, Iowa
2022 Tractor Photo Contest Winner
1958 Oliver 880 sitting out waiting to run a generator if needed.
Photo by William Jay, of Seymour, Illinois
2022 Tractor Photo Contest Winner
The lucky winner of December’s $200 Steiner gift card is Tracy Chowning from Kansas. She has been a customer of ours since 2020. Congratulations, Tracy!
Logan Clark received his 10-year anniversary clock and gift on December 15th. Logan started at STP when he was 19 years old. He has worked in multiple departments in our warehouse over the last 10 years. Thank you Logan for your commitment to a job well done.
This 59′ Ford was built with care.
Mowing and spraying before an orchard will bare.
It’s Christmas Day, almost 60 years later,
We used our Steiner parts to make it even greater.
This restored tractor is ready to mount,
Making time with his grandson Gus count.
A few repairs and a coat of paint,
Learning to drive on an antique shows restraint.
Driving a tractor before a car,
Builds confidence that will take you far.
You may assume a tractor is just a toy,
It’s actually a bridge between man and boy.
Written by Scott Clemens, January 8th, 2021
Birthdays
12th – Stenor Ott
20th – Travis Pierce
Anniversaries
4th – Michael Patterson – 1 year (Shipping Team)
22nd – Jayce Zimmerman – 4 years (Inventory Control)
My buddy, Mike Atkins bought an old Ford 2N tractor. This inspired me to purchase an old tractor. I got a 1948 Case VAC.
Mike said there isn’t a local tractor club so I nominated him as president of our newly formed antique tractor club.
Today, we both entered the annual Christmas parade. That is Mike’s son, Damien on Mike’s Ford, and me on my Case.
We had a blast!
We are hoping to have more club members by next Christmas!
Gary Thomas of Snyder, Oklahoma
The 8N is 1947 same year I was born I did a complete out-of-frame overhaul on the engine and was going to paint it the original Ford color.
My wife saw a car that she said that’s my favorite color, Daytona yellow, so I picked up some yellow. I had Massey Ferguson red and gray in the shop, so now I have a Daytona yellow, Massey red, Massey gray 1947 8N Ford.
Dan Blanchard
North Fork, California
Eric Parker on Great-Grandpa Parker’s 1954 Ford NAA.
Erica Parker
Battle Creek, Michigan
2022 Tractor Photo Contest Winner
I fell in love with the IH Cub after finding an abandoned 1951 in an old barn. A city boy who has no connection with a farm, I took on the hobby to rebuild it to working order. I am the only person in the City of Chicago with not one, but two IH Farmall tractors.
My boys and I live downtown not far from the John Hancock building and often drive them around for others to enjoy the rare site. I drove this Cub across Michigan Ave in stopped traffic and parked in front of Bloomingdales for the beautiful shot. Even the Chicago police were taking pictures. Great memory for our family.
This photo was taken on Thanksgiving 2020.
Ray Pelelas
Chicago, Illinois
2022 Tractor Photo Contest Winner
7 years ago my Great Grandpa Melvin “Mole” Wilson passed at 100 years of age. He had 5 kids, 14 grandkids, 16 great-grandkids, and 5 great-great-grand kids at the time of his passing.
My grandpa and siblings asked me to take care of all the photos from my great grandparent’s house and some notable documents. I scanned roughly 600 that were put on a disk and made available for everyone!
In that were two things of all the logging, farming, and hunting pictures I found a picture of his Farmall 560, and of all things the receipt from when he purchased it 12/31/1962.
Well, this Farmall had been traded in for a compact Kubota to be used in his small garden in his retirement sometime around 1990. The tractor was long gone.
2 years ago a farm estate auction was posted for proxy bid due to covid restrictions 30 miles away, in that was a Farmall 560. The tractor was in bad shape, missing panels, and was 50′ in a chicken barn. That had collapsed right in front of the tractor… But it had all the options my grandpas did, I ended up buying it, sight unseen and the day I showed up to pick it up… the first thing I did was wipe off the serial number plate and sure enough, it was the same tractor!
Over the past couple of years, I have replaced, fixed, cleaned, farmed, and upgraded some more on the tractor, much of the parts sourced from STP.
Above are a few pics, a photo from my grandpa’s collection, the receipt, when I found the tractor, and where I have it today, this would not have been as possible to bring back to life without the availability of your parts.
Rob Gordon of Bucoda, Washington
The lucky winners of November’s $200 Steiner gift card are James and Diane Michael from Pennsylvania. They have been customers of ours since 2018. Congratulations, James and Diane!
This tractor was purchased in 1975 by Dudley Cumper for use on Cumper Dairy Farm in Marlette, Michigan. This is a 5-bottom plow tractor that was mainly used for plowing, chopping corn, and general fieldwork and has less than 6,000 hours on it.
The motor was rebuilt about 30 years ago with new seals, bearings, converter, all three heads replaced, and rear axle. It also has dual tires.
Several years ago, it was passed down to Dudley’s son, James, where it is lovingly cared for. And although it has been retired from fieldwork for many years, the anticipation of that first significant snowfall is always a good excuse to attach the back blade and do some plowing!
Pictured are James and Darlene Cumper of Marlette, MI – one of the many pictures taken in celebration of their 60th wedding anniversary in October.
Deb Holloway
Marlette, Michigan
Birthdays
8th – Nikki Johnson – Customer Service Team
17th – Zach Slagor – Quality Control Team
18th – Brandi Erickson – Customer Service Team
23rd – Michael Patterson – Shipping Team
25th – Natasha Root – Customer Service Team
28th – Emily Rosser – Purchasing Team
Anniversaries
15th – Logan Clark – 10 years, Inventory Control Team
Well, I’ve pretty much been a city slicker all my life, but always enjoyed camping and outdoors. As it happens, all the kids have grown up (mostly) and my wife and I bought 10 acres here in Swartz Creek. It used to be a working farm complete with barn and silo etc. I have always loved gardening and thought to myself ‘self, let’s go big’. We bought a 1949 Farmall M and we’ve been loving it. Still, lots to learn and hard work every day, but we couldn’t imagine it any other way.
My son’s friend, Zac Goldsmith, took the photo with an extended exposure at dusk, with a campfire burning behind us.
Eric Blake
Swartz Creek, Michigan
2022 Tractor Photo Contest Winner
My 1938 Case C has been in the family for over 40 years. It’s pulling an 8′ Case WRA one-way Wheatland disk plow built in the 1930s. This tractor was first owned by my late uncle, Bruce Watts, then by my late father, John Pinkney, and now me. It is the tractor I first learned to drive, on my uncle’s farm.
This photo was taken in front of the Lucas barn in Milton, Ontario, Canada. The barn was used for the Anne of Green Gables movie on PBS in 2016. The barn was used for the chickens in the movie. This photo was taken after the filming was finished.
Shawn Pinkney
Caledon, Ontario, Canada
2022 Tractor Photo Contest Winner
Birthdays
4th – TJ Hilts – Shipping Team
12th – Eric Carlisle – Receiving Team
27th – Andrew Wilberding – Marketing Supervisor
Anniversaries
1st – Zach Slagor – 11 years, Quality Control Team
2nd – LeAnn Draper – 1 year, Shipping Team
2nd – Stephanie Hascall – 1 year, Returns Team
12th – Toni Sprague – 3 years, Customer Service Team
19th – Richard Hendershot – 11 years, Quality Control Team
My grandfather bought this tractor new in 1956 at the dealership, west side implement in Wood Lake, Minnesota.
My father grew up doing custom hay baling with this tractor. When the farm was sold I was able to keep the tractor, and in my senior year of high school, my father and I restored it together.
This picture has the fourth generation of family ownership pictured.
Tyler Dotseth
Jordan, Minnesota
2022 Tractor Photo Contest Winner