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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
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“This Cockshutt was purchased in Sterling, Ohio in 1957 by my wife’s father. I began dating her in 1962 and they were still using it. Her father passed away in 1969, and the tractor was sold at that time.
Jump ahead to 1988, when one of my wife’s cousins saw a tractor that he thought looked like theirs sitting in a field near Cleveland, Ohio. My wife’s brother, who was living near Middlebury, Indiana, went to investigate. He was able to identify it as their tractor (from a photo in 1966) showing a large y-shaped scar on the nose cover and the placement of a fire extinguisher on the left side.
My wife’s brother bought the tractor and took it back to Middlebury, Indiana and had the engine repaired. He moved to Colorado in 1992, and that’s when I received the tractor to finish the restoration.
I went through 4 different buyers of the tractor to track down the original wheels, which I found and bought back from someone in Mt Vernon, Ohio. One of the first buyers of the tractor had sold the wheels and put Oliver wheels on it.
Well, my intentions were good, but it has been sitting in my shop since, so last Fall I decided it was “Now or Never” to restore it. I finished it during the Covid-19 outbreak last April. It will now go to our daughter and son-in-law who live near West Liberty, Ohio. They live on a farm there and will be able to show the tractor at Fairs and Shows.”
Ivan Beyeler
Leo, Indiana
I grew up in an Oliver family, everywhere you looked we had Olivers running the family farm, guess you could say it was a family tradition. My first tractor restore was a 1944 Oliver 60, it was a tractor very similar to what my dad learned how to drive on, so I wanted to keep the family tradition going. I fell in love with the look of the Oliver 60, and then I discovered that there was another 60. A Canadian company called Cockshutt hired Oliver to make a few tractors for them, using the same factory and the same assembly line, using 95% of Oliver parts, and one of those tractors was the Cockshutt 60. There was just a few differences, like the axle housing and front strip on the grille that said Cockshutt instead of Oliver, these tractors were painted Cockshutt Red and the wheels were painted Cockshutt Yellow. The neatest thing was that the gauges still said Oliver on them and the Serial Tag said COCKSHUTT 60, built by The Oliver Farm Equipment Company, Charles City Iowa. I had to have one, so the search was on!
After a few years of searching, I kept falling short. You would think being from Southeast Minnesota, the state above where the tractors were built and the bordering state to Canada, it would be easy to find one, not so much. My search finally ended when I stumbled upon a Craigslist ad from Michigan, an old Cockshutt 60 on steel wheels. This tractor needed a lot of work, but when this was the only tractor I could find, I had to buy it and have it shipped to Minnesota. Seeing that an Oliver 60 is pretty much the same tractor, I also bought two Olivers for parts tractors, using all three to make one tractor.
This was a pretty neat project, I removed the steel wheels and added rubber wheels, added a 5 speed transmission, replaced the missing pieces with either new parts or parts from the Oliver parts tractors. I used as many as the original parts as I could. This is truly a “RED” Oliver, every parts book that I would look up Cockshutt 60, it would tell me to see Oliver 60. This “Red” Oliver got completely rebuilt from front to back, top to bottom.
It took me longer to find the tractor than it did for me to restore it, I finished it in just over a year! When I take the tractor out, there are people that think I painted the Oliver the wrong color, think is it a Massey, an Avery, or even a Farmall, until I tell them the history of the tractor. I believe I have the only Cockshutt 60 in Southeast Minnesota, making it stand out from the rest. So whether it is a green or “Red” Oliver 60, the family tradition rolls on!!
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Mitch Paulson of Rushford, Minnesota
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I am Joe Rogers from Joe’s Tractors in New Palestine, Indiana. I have five antique tractors. Here are some pictures and a short biography about each one.
1947 Farmall H – is my primary parade Tractor and was used on a farm in Carthage, Indiana to rake hay prior to me purchasing it in 2015 and painting it and giving it a partial restore with several Steiner parts.
1949 Farmall M – is my pulling tractor. I bought it in 2017 in Knightstown, Indiana after it was restored by a local farmer and his son.
1947 Co-op E3 – was used on a farm in Kokomo Indiana for several years, it was then restored and used for shows and parades until the owner passed and his grandson sold it to me. I enjoy parading and showing this tractor as it is easy to haul and maneuver.
1959 Cockshutt 550 – is a workhorse around my farm. My grandfather bought this tractor from a farmer in Rush County who used it to farm for several years, my grandfather gave it to me this past year and I enjoy using it to plow and disc with.
1940 International I-4 – the most interesting tractor in the collection, this tractor was bought new by Eli Lilly Pharmaceuticals in 1940 and was used on their farm in Greenfield, Indiana with a push blade on the front for grading and cleaning out barns. My grandfather worked for Eli Lilly for 33 years before retiring and he bought the tractor off of Lilly and restored it. My grandfather was the second owner and then gifted it to me this past year. We have pictures of it working on the Lilly farm and the original manuals and information on the tractor. It was my grandfathers pride and joy show and parade tractor.
Joe Rogers
The Tractor was originally my Grandfather’s. It was sold outside the family in the late 90’s, it took me two years to track it down, it was owned by a Cockshutt Collector Mr. Lauzon of Williamstown Ontario. He gracefully sold me the tractor, and I hauled it over 400 miles back home. Took a little over a year, but was finally completely restored.
The following story was written by Ross Dokis for the Cockshutt Quarterly, and he has allowed us to share it with our readers.
Hello I am from northern Ontario, for those whom do not know me, my name is Ross Dokis, I am 26 years old, and I am from Sudbury Ontario.
I can recollect as far back as the early 1990’s, I was three or four years old, my grandfather had a Cockshutt 20. I used to sit on his lap, and he would let me steer the tractor. I would later watch him plow snow in the driveway with the rear blade. Wow! Was I ever amazed! Weekends were spent going for a ride up and down the driveway as a youngster; I had a smile from ear to ear!
That smile quickly faded when in the late 90’s; grandpa gave the tractor to my uncle who later partially restored the tractor sporting new paint and later sold it outside the family. I thought l’d never see it again.
In January 2015, with a house, garage, and mechanic know how of my own, I set out to find that Cockshutt! Determined, I set ads on the internet, calling family friends if they knew where the tractor had gone. Over a year went by, until February 2016. I received a call from a gentleman who said he was a collector in Williamstown Ontario, near the Cornwall area. The man was Glen Lauzon; Glen was able to provide the tractors history right back to my grandfather even before I gave him the serial number to confirm it was the one.
How did it get more that 600 kms, or over 400 miles from home? Glen recounted how he was up north near Cochrane Ontario on a yearly hunting trip and seen it for sale on the side of the road, and being the collector Glen was, he immediately brought it home.
in May 2016, with help from my dad, uncle and a friend’s car hauler, we set out to make the trip. I had the opportunity to bring the 20 back home, and more importantly, I got to meet Glen and his lovely wife Brenda, and became close friends with Glen.
Fast forward two years, with the 20 sitting comfortably in the garage. Late nights in the garage, on the internet and looking through books and manuals and getting advice through countless friends met through the club, and the Facebook Cockshutt page, the 20 is now completely restored.
I am so proud to be a part of the Cockshutt family. I was blown away at how Cockshutt people are the friendliest, most caring people to not just talk tractors, but to give you a hand when you need it.
A close friend once told me “tractors bring you together; the people keep you together”. lt’s a true testament to how Cockshutt people are.
Since hauling grandpa’s 20 home, two other 20’s have joined the family along with a 30. With no cure to the fever in sight, a supportive wife, and room to store the gorgeous red and creme machines, things will only grow!
Ross Dokis of Hanmer Ontario
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1948 Coop #3 tractor with new paint and new brakes. Dryland corn and swathed millet compliment the #3.
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I was born and raised here on a 280 acre farm in West Central Wisconsin. My Great Grandfather purchased the farm in 1897. My wife Kathy and I built our home on the Northeast corner of the farm in 1977. We had Case and IH tractors and equipment when I was growing up.
In 1970 I worked on the Loren Young farm and he had Olivers, 880, Super 88 and 77, all diesels. I fell in love with those Olivers and his daughter Kathy. We were married September 1, 1973. We have four children and seven granchildren. My son Scott and I are diesel mechanics by trade, we have a large shop were we work on our old tractors, six of which are sued for antique and farm pulling.
My grandson Xander pulled his Moline U for the first time in Fountain City. He took a 1st and 2nd in his classes. His dad Scott and I were very proud of him. He did a great job for only being 8 years old, but he has lots of hours of practice at home. We had three generations pulling that night.
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Black River Falls, Wisconsin
This story is more about a place rather than a tractor. In 1980 a husband and wife decided to have an antique tractor show at their home. Just like any event the first was small but successful. The duo had a unique love and common hobby of antique farm equipment. Together Horrace and Norma Potter owned over 300 pieces! They easily could have shown their own equipment and had an amazing show, but they chose to open it up and share the hobby with other restorers.
The annual tractor show went on for 20 years in Milford, Delaware until the Potters hung up their hats in 2000. Now this is where two lives collide. In 1991 on the 10th annual Hickory Ridge Farm Show a 15 year old named Russell Geyer III started showing his own farm equipment. Russell showed equipment and participated in the tractor pull competition. Russell being a part of a farming family loved Hickory Ridge. Horrace taught him how to compete. Russell competed at Hickory Ridge for 4 years.
After high school graduation he, like most graduates, joined the working class. In 2014 Russell purchased and restored a tractor his family bought new in 1963 which appeared in his wedding to his wife. In 2015 Russell and his wife began purchasing and restoring antique farm equipment. Again a husband and wife team up to rescue these long forgotten power houses. By 2018 the Geyer’s had 18 tractors. Nothing compared to the Potter’s but its a goal to work towards.
After Norma Davis Potter passed away in 2017 the farm was prepared for a new legacy and going up for sale. Friends of the family connected Russell with the Davis/Potter family and in October 2018 Mr. Geyer purchased Hickory Ridge. Vendors, tractors, and exhaust had not filled the show grounds in 20 years. Children had not ran through the property eating hot dogs. People from surrounding states had not taken in Hickory Ridge’s beauty. Russell remembers the smells, the roar of a tractor pulling a load down the track, the American flag whipping in the wind. Russell and his wife vowed to the family the show would come back to Hickory Ridge.
On November 3rd 2018 the first Hickory Ridge Antique Tractor Club held its meeting. Bylaws and rules were formed, positions were filled, and a sense of pride fell over the 5 members and even 2 junior members in attendance. The club is working hard to have the second Annual Hickory Ridge Antique Tractor Show in August 2019. We are looking for more members, including youth members, more vendors, and more sponsors. The family and club want the show to be just like it was. It was a place where history came alive, festivities were affordable, and memories could be made. Hickory Ridge is back and ready to get the show started!
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