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To All our Wonderful Customers & Friends!!!!

12/24/2021

Wishing all our customers & friends a safe & joyous Christmas!!!

02/08/2017

And the winner is........the Lane family! Congratulations we are looking forward to getting started! We will keep everyone updated on the restoration process! Thank you again to all who entered!

Tractor Makeover Finalist #3

02/08/2017

Exciting...

02/08/2017

Tune in to WMT AM600 tomorrow, Wednesday February 8th at 12:45 pm during the Big Show to hear who is the lucky winner of the WMT Tractor Makeover contest! They are also going to try and do it on Facebook live! Good luck to our five contestants, we are excited to see who wins! I will also be posting here once it is announced, in case anyone misses it!

02/02/2017

Tractor Makeover Finalist #5 - Zeiser

Wayne Zieser WMT Tractor Makeover Contest Entry:

My tractor is a 1955 Farmall 400. A seed salesman friend from Washington, Iowa told me of this tractor 8 years ago and that he was sure it was one of my father-in-laws tractors. My wife Julie and I went to look at the tractor, bought it and I drove it home that day. I wanted to see if I could come up with some history on the tractor, so I started asking around about the old IH dealerships that were formerly in Washington. I was told of a man by the name of Hap McCoy and where I could find him. I went to the UP rest home in Washington and talked to Hap. I asked if he had ever sold Don Radda a 400. He said no but he did sell him a Super M, and when he delivered it that Don went around the corner of the house and came back with a coffee can, opened the can and paid him for the tractor. I did find some information in one of Don’s diaries where a salesman from Washington had “delivered the 400” that he had traded a super M and plow for. Julie won’t ever see her Dad’s 400 restored as we lost her to cancer last July, but hopefully her children and grandchildren will. Her Dad was Don Radda, the Worlds Tall Corn King.

Tractor Makeover finalist # 5

02/02/2017

Tractor Makeover Finalist #4 - O'Brien

David O’Brien WMT Tractor Makeover Contest Entry:



My Allis Chalmers D15 Series II was purchased, used, by my grandfather in 1984, the year I was born. My uncle located the tractor south of Blairstown near Hannon Lake at a farm sale. It was to be used as a loader tractor on his dairy and crop farm. It faithfully served until it was replaced by a skidloader during the 1990s. Retired and left to sit in my grandpa’s barn until the summer of 1999, when I limped it home, 4 miles, to begin work on it. Over the course of a couple summers the front axle was disassembled due to a stuck spindle. I replaced one spindle assemble due to wear, new bearing, seals and tie rods to make it safe again. During 2013, we pulled the engine for a complete overhaul with carb rebuild and hei ignition upgrade. I handbuilt a new wiring harness for the tractor at that point, as well as converted from a generator to a modern internally regulated compact alternator. We are developing a factory appearing system to give the tractor live hydraulics essentially building the first Allis Chalmers D15 Series III. I have always had a love for this tractor and the 2 of us will spend our lives together on Grandpa’s farm. The tractor is still used regularly for plowing, making hay and tractor rides and will be handed down to my children to continue its lifes work on the farm.

Tractor Makeover Finalist #4

02/02/2017

Tractor Makeover finalist #2 - Lake

Eugene Lake WMT Tractor Makeover Contest Entry:

My dad bought a new John Deere 50 tractor on July 2, 1954. Growing up on the farm this was the first tractor I learned how to drive. With the hand clutch and live power it was easy to operate for a young boy.

I moved back to the farm in 1981 after dad had a heart attack. I worked a full-time job on second shift and helped dad run the farm. My dad passed away in 1983 and I bought part of the farm, livestock and machinery from my mother.

In 1985, the John Deere 50 was traded in at a local dealer ship for machinery needed at that time. The dealer sold the John Deere 50 and I was working hard to just keep the farm going.

Fast forward to March 2016, I was reading about an upcoming farm auction. It was an estate auction for 2 brothers who had farmed all their life. The auction had a complete line of farm machinery, plus many antique tractors collected by the brothers over the years.

The day before the auction I went for a drive to check out some of the auction items. As I was looking around I noticed a John Deere 50, 60, and 70 parked next to a barn. The John Deere 50 caught my eye as I looked closer I began to notice things I remembered about the 50. I wrote down the serial number thinking this has to be dad’s 50. When I got home I checked the owner’s manual which I had kept when I sold the tractor. Dad had written the serial number inside the cover and the number matched, it was his tractor.

The next day I went to the auction. I told no one about tractor except my wife. Well I bought the John Deere 50, paid more than I wanted to like always, but it’s back home. I couldn’t let it slip away again.

The 50 was in good condition as the brothers had taken good care of it for 30 years. The radiator was leaking, so I took it out and got it restored. I also had the carburetor cleaned and rebuilt. I went on a local tractor ride in August of 2016. Everything worked fine except for some front wheel wobbling at high speed. I have enclosed some pictures of the John Deere 50. Not bad for a 62 year old tractor.

Tractor Makeover Finalist # 2

02/02/2017

Tractor Makeover finalist #1 - Kolbe

Sunny Kolbe WMT Tractor Makeover Contest Entry:

Our 1952 Super M Tractor was purchased used by my father from our local IH dealer in Bagley, Iowa in 1954. It was the first IH tractor we had ever owned as we always used AC equipment. As our main tractor to farm 300 acres, it performed well. It did all our plowing, disking and field cultivating and later years got to have our first four row mounted cultivator. It always wore the mounted corn picker every fall to pick our ear corn and was a treat to hear its eager ability to fill the wagons on a frosty morning.

After graduating from high school in 1958, I went to Seattle and worked for a year, then returned to the farm. In 1960, I bought a 1960 IH 560 tractor so that gave “Emmie”(as we call the Super M) some deserved rest. Also purchased a square baler and did custom baling.

My wife and I were married in 1963 and continued to farm and do custom work with our 560 and the Super M until 1966 when my draft notice appeared in the mail box. After an honorable discharge in the fall of 1968, we returned to the farm and agreed to purchase my father’s equipment to continue farming, which included Emmie.

Since we still had our custom baling business, in about 1972, we decided we needed a different tractor to pull the baler, so we traded Emmie for a Hydro tractor to make operation of the baler easier for my wife than a gear tractor.

One day, my father asked “what did you do with Emmie?” I told him we traded it for the Hydro tractor to run the baler. He never said a word but you could tell he was disappointed that Emmie had gone away. The next day, we went to town and bought Emmie back.

My father passed away in 1977 so he did not get to see Emmie in its glory. When all the Centennials started in the 1980’s around here, Emmie went into town and showed a lot of the local M’s and John Deere’s she was made of the right stuff and could still do the job. We even hauled her to Minnesota a few times, where our kids lived, and showed a few of those tractors what she was made of. That is where she got her new name, “Super Emmie”, as the new sticker our daughter got for her indicates.

Emmie has been on several tractor rides and is still a major part of our farming operation. Pretty much in her work clothes today, she rakes a lot of hay, run the auger(for weeks at a time) and is a handy tractor to jump on and do odd jobs around the farm.

Tractor Makeover Finalist #1

01/10/2017

I wish I could write down everything that was done to this truck.......but it would be so Loooooong! Needless to say it was a huge project in a short period of time! Lots of custom parts from 12 Gauge Customs, 4 State Trucks, Roadsknz, AIH Chrome, Paul's Paint & Body, and a KILLER stripe design by Jim Higgins. It was lots of fun with lots of stress, but we couldn't have been happier on how it turned out! Looking forward to giving the same treatment in a different color combo to it's "sister" this spring!