This month’s lucky winner of a $100 Steiner gift card is Tim Galant of North Ridgeville, Ohio. Our monthly winner is drawn randomly from all of the customers who have added a tractor to their barn while logged into their Steiner account. Congratulations, Tim!
John Deere 720 Diesel
I have always liked/wanted a John Deere 720 diesel with the pony motor starting. I also wanted an OEM 3-point and square OEM wide front. I had to look for a while but finally found all those features on a tractor near Cando North Dakota.
Hauled it home to St Cloud Minnesota, and spent 3 years repairing oil leaks and other minor things – the diesel engine seems very sound as is. Finally got it painted just this past December 2021.
Hal Undersander
Saint Cloud, Minnesota
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1964 Oliver 550
1964 Oliver was bought new by my great grandfather in 1964.
My brother and I had just finished putting a new clutch in and used it to clear snow on the place to break in the clutch.
Jonathon Schmedding
Walthill, Nebraska
Tractor Photo Contest Winner
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1940 John Deere A
This is a lifelong story of a 1940 John Deere Model A tractor that was owned by my parents when they farmed north of Chamberlain, South Dakota, in West Point Township. Above is me and my sister Gail standing next to the tractor, taken in about 1953.
In 1956 my parents sold out and a neighbor bought the tractor at the auction. He used the tractor primarily for baling hay with an Allis Chalmers Rotobaler. When he no longer used the tractor he parked it in the trees where it sat for many years before a friend of his moved it into a shed, it sat for 9 more years before I acquired it in April of 2017. The picture below shows the result of the neglect it suffered for many years. Some of the parts had been taken off by the friend but he still had everything except one front wheel.
I restored the tractor in time to pull a float in the 2018 Corn Palace Stampede Rodeo Parade which is held annually in Mitchell, South Dakota. Below is a picture of my sister Gail and me on the morning of the parade. The tractor is all original except for the hood, gas tank, and one front wheel.
The last picture shows her in all her glory in the parade, good enough for a third-place trophy. In the picture are my son Brian, daughter Nancy, wife Michelle, and my twin grandsons Luke and Garrett.
Michael Ommen
Mitchell, South Dakota
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