I asked at the August meeting who wanted their tractors on the computer, and half the room put
their hands up, so here they are. This isn't everybody. If yours is missing, tell me at the next
meeting and I'll add it. Pictures will have to wait until somebody in the club gets a scanner.
[James: Or until somebody's grandkid gets one.]
| TRACTOR | OWNER AND STORY |
| 1919 Waterloo Boy Model N | Roland Labrecque. The oldest running tractor in the club, built right here in Iowa at Waterloo, the tractor John Deere bought the company to get. Roland spent nine years finding parts. It plowed the first furrow on plow day, and it's slower than the second hand on a clock. |
| 1920 Case steam traction engine, 65 horsepower | Joseph Wagner. Not a tractor, Joe will tell you, an engine. He bought it in 1961 out of a grove in southern Minnesota and has run it at every show since. It passes its boiler inspection every year, and Joe doesn't let anybody else fire it. |
| 1924 Fordson F | Roland Labrecque again. His wife says one is a hobby and two is a problem. |
| 1929 McCormick-Deering 10-20 | Donald Lejeune. Still on its original steel wheels with lugs, so it can't go on the blacktop or in the pull. It belts up to the corn sheller at the show and runs it all day. |
| 1939 John Deere B | James Hoeft. A styled B, the two-cylinder "Johnny Popper." It was my grandpa's, bought new, and James restored it for our tenth anniversary, which is how a Farmall man came to own a John Deere. You start it by spinning the flywheel. It's the Y2K-proof one. [James: It was robbed in the 3,500 class.] |
| 1941 Farmall H | James Hoeft. His dad's. James took it down to the last bolt over two winters and it's as good as new. Better, he says. |
| 1944 Allis-Chalmers WC | Curtis Letourneau. Persian orange and proud of it. Curtis bought it at a farm sale for $900 in 1988 and says it's the best money he ever spent, not counting his wedding ring. |
| 1946 Case DC | Hobert Tschida. Flambeau red. Hobert is 78 and farmed with this very tractor from 1946 until 1971, then parked it, then got it back out when he retired. |
| 1947 Farmall A | Wayne Cheatham. The "Culti-Vision" Farmall, with the engine off to one side so you can see the row you're cultivating. Wayne's grandkids drive it in the parade. |
| 1947 Farmall M | Robert Haffey. First place in the 5,500 class. Robert is our pull committee chairman and the youngest man in the club with a restored tractor, at 35. |
| 1948 Farmall H | Clayton Bush. Drove it in this year's parade. Clayton has his own page about the show, Threshing Day - August 1999. |
| 1948 Farmall H | Don Norden. Our president, and the man on the loudspeaker for the parade. Two 1948 H's in the club and they argue about which one's straighter. |
| 1949 Minneapolis-Moline U | Lee Starbuck. Prairie Gold. Not yellow. Lee will correct you. |
| 1950 Ford 8N | Henry Loggins. Gray and red, with the three-point hitch. Won the 3,500 class. Henry keeps a little plow and a blade for it and still does his garden with it every spring. |
| 1950 Farmall Cub | Janice Hoeft (me!). Ruby. Small, red and reliable. She mows the yard and the ditches and she has never once been robbed in a tractor pull, because I don't pull her. |
| 1950 John Deere A | William Jensen. The bigger two-cylinder, with the hand clutch. William is show chairman, so he barely got to drive it all weekend. Second in the 5,500 class anyway. |
| 1950 Oliver 77 | Jerry Westphal. Green with red wheels, and the smoothest six-cylinder sound in the county. Won the 4,500 class in the year Oliver was the featured make. |
| 1951 Allis-Chalmers WD | Bobby Humphrey. Bobby's dad traded a team of horses toward it. Third in the 4,500 class. |
| 1951 Farmall M | James Hoeft. The one he still uses for chores. Third in the 5,500 class. [Janice: I notice nobody robbed this one.] |
| 1952 Farmall Super M | Jacob Herzog. Won the 6,500 class going away. Jacob restored it with his dad, who drove it new. |
| 1955 Farmall 400 | Clifford Dumont. Clifford is 76 and made a full pull in the heavy class, then lost the pull-off by eight feet. He'll be back. |
| 1956 Oliver Super 88 | Paul Vargas. Bought it this spring from a widow in Benton County who wanted it to go to somebody who'd show it. He did. |
| 1958 John Deere 730 | Jerry Westphal. The big two-cylinder, and the heavy class champion. Jerry runs a lot of green for a man with a red-wheeled Oliver. |
Robert Lorusso has eleven hit-and-miss engines and counting, from a little 1-1/2 horse Fairbanks-Morse
Z up to a 6 horse that takes two men and a pickup to move. He brings them all to the show and sets them
up in a row, and you can hear them from the parking lot. If you've got an old engine in your barn
you don't know what to do with, Robert would like a word.
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