Virtual Favorite Tractor Parade
Virtual Favorite Tractor Parade
Darrell Gregg of Bertrand in south-central Nebraska shares his 1931 John Deere Model D. He attended a farm sale in 1959 in Arapahoe, Nebraska. He was looking for a Bearcat grinder at the sale; he found it attached to an old John Deere D. The auctioneer and owner would not let the grinder go without the tractor so he bought them both, He did grind with the tractor and do some other work with it, but then he parked it in the trees for several years. In April 2014 he sent it to Leroy Giffin in Kearney, Nebraska, who restores tractors as a hobby. Giffin restored the tractor; it was also running again. It looks and runs better than ever. Every year Gregg tries to have the tractor in at least a couple of parades.
Virtual Favorite Tractor Parade
Darrell Gregg of Bertrand in south-central Nebraska shares his 1931 John Deere Model D. He attended a farm sale in 1959 in Arapahoe, Nebraska. He was looking for a Bearcat grinder at the sale; he found it attached to an old John Deere D. The auctioneer and owner would not let the grinder go without the tractor so he bought them both, He did grind with the tractor and do some other work with it, but then he parked it in the trees for several years. In April 2014 he sent it to Leroy Giffin in Kearney, Nebraska, who restores tractors as a hobby. Giffin restored the tractor; it was also running again. It looks and runs better than ever. Every year Gregg tries to have the tractor in at least a couple of parades.
Virtual Favorite Tractor Parade
Darrell Gregg of Bertrand in south-central Nebraska shares his 1931 John Deere Model D. He attended a farm sale in 1959 in Arapahoe, Nebraska. He was looking for a Bearcat grinder at the sale; he found it attached to an old John Deere D. The auctioneer and owner would not let the grinder go without the tractor so he bought them both, He did grind with the tractor and do some other work with it, but then he parked it in the trees for several years. In April 2014 he sent it to Leroy Giffin in Kearney, Nebraska, who restores tractors as a hobby. Giffin restored the tractor; it was also running again. It looks and runs better than ever. Every year Gregg tries to have the tractor in at least a couple of parades.
Virtual Favorite Tractor Parade
A 1944 McCormick-Deering Super WD9 belongs to Ed Burlingame of Milton-Freewater in northeastern Oregon. He came across the tractor in a junkyard and brought it home where he and his son-in-law fully restored it.
Virtual Favorite Tractor Parade
Gib Thurman and his father, Bill Thurman, operate a 1906 25-horsepower Buffalo Pitts steam traction engine during the 58th-annual Platte County Steam Show in Platte City in far-western Missouri. Gib Thurman is with Nixon Auctioneers in Wichita, Kansas. The engine is the only known single-cylinder 25-horsepower Buffalo Pitts known to exist. Shannon Johnson with Bill and Gib Thurman made a ‘short’ 1,600-mile round trip in 2009 from Harrisonville, Missouri, to New Rockford, North Dakota, to view and possibly purchase the engine from the late-O.R. Aslakso family.
‘From the early 1900s until the 1930s steam was king across the country,’ Gib Thurman says. ‘It was the steam engines that broke open the prairies for wheat and other crops. They threshed the grain, making the United States the ‘bread winner’ as the largest agricultural producer in the world. In the 1930s internal-combustion tractors started becoming more-popular and affordable. The presence of steam started becoming less in demand; eventually the outdated steam engine was only a memory. In the early 1950s Aslakso purchased this Buffalo Pitts engine after years of being retired from the threshing fields across the plains of North Dakota. The engine spent the next several decades at the Central North Dakota Steam Show in New Rockford until the engine was purchased in 2010. For the first time in more than 104 years the new chapter required the Buffalo Pitts to be moved from North Dakota to its new home in Missouri. There it received a full restoration and new paint. It was brought back to life to once more relive its golden years. This dinosaur still operates every year at the Platte County Steam Show and the Western Missouri Antique Tractor & Machinery Association in Adrian, Missouri, threshing wheat just as it was built to do more than 114 years ago.’
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Virtual Favorite Tractor Parade
Bob Thie of West Burlington in southeast Iowa drives a Massey Harris #20 purchased by his dad in 1945. ‘It was to replace two horses on a corn planter – two-row,’ Bob Thie says. ‘The hitch was on the frame under the back end of the motor. The planter hung on two chains on the back of the tractor; it was lifted by the back cultivator arm. There was not hydraulics on the tractor at that age. My dad was still planting with a check wire; we could cultivate length and width for weed control. My brother, Don, and I restored it; we drive in the Mediapolis Parade (in Iowa) each fall. It takes more than $50 of candy. I cultivated a lot of corn with this tractor. Don and I are both in our 80s so we have seen a lot of change.’
Virtual Favorite Tractor Parade
What might be a long-faded John Deere tractor watches the world go by near Melrose, Wisconsin.
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Virtual Favorite Tractor Parade
Noah Cemper, 9, of Wood River in central Nebraska shares his first tractor, a 1943 Farmall H – a wartime tractor. ‘Noah is very proud,’ says Chris Cemper, his father. ‘With help from our family and friends he has it complete.’
Virtual Favorite Tractor Parade
Don Villwock of Edwardsport in southwest Indiana shares his 1965 Farmall 806 tractor that he restored. ‘My dad, Carl Villwock, had the first IH factory cab in the Midwest,’ he says. ‘Those cabs were great in the fall, winter and early spring. But his wasn’t air-conditioned so it was hot and dusty; we had to run with the windows open. Plus this early model was not sound-insulated and was very loud. Hearing protection or headphones were always needed. Restoring this tractor brought back many fond memories of Dad and his 806. It was a special addition to my collection.’
Virtual Favorite Tractor Parade
Charles Gerson of Highland in central Illinois shows his favorite tractor, a 1956 Ferguson 35. ‘I started driving a T0-20 when I was 5 years old, on my father’s farm,’ he says. ‘I grew up on Ferguson and Massey Ferguson tractors and equipment. I farmed full-time until I was 28 years old. I sold out at that time and started working at a Massey Ferguson dealership that I eventually purchased in 1998. I retired in 2017 and sold my dealership. I was 72 years old.’
I now use the tractor to help my daughter and son-in-law garden and maintain their 12-acre property. I have farming in my blood.
Virtual Favorite Tractor Parade
What does a family do to stay connected? Restore an old tractor. Marvin Krall of Edgar in central Wisconsin works on the final touches of restoring a 1963 Allis Chalmers D-15 Series II. ‘I collaborated from a distance while Dad and my brother Jeff Krall took the tractor down to the frame to restore it to its original glory,’ son Gordon Krall says. ‘My dad has always been an Allis man, knowing everything about how they run and how to maintain them. This D-15 holds a special spot for the family. It sure gave us something exciting to talk about during times of adversity and social distancing.’
Virtual Favorite Tractor Parade
What does a family do to stay connected? Restore an old tractor. Marvin Krall of Edgar in central Wisconsin works on the final touches of restoring a 1963 Allis Chalmers D-15 Series II. ‘I collaborated from a distance while Dad and my brother Jeff Krall took the tractor down to the frame to restore it to its original glory,’ son Gordon Krall says. ‘My dad has always been an Allis man, knowing everything about how they run and how to maintain them. This D-15 holds a special spot for the family. It sure gave us something exciting to talk about during times of adversity and social distancing.’
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Virtual Favorite Tractor Parade
Eric Miller of Monticello in central Illinois is sharing a 1954 John Deere 60 that was purchased new in 1955 by his grandparents William and Doris Prahl. It was the only tractor they ever owned. ‘The uses for the tractor were many – planting and cultivating, plowing and disking, baling and even pulling a small combine,’ he says. ‘They – my grandparents and the tractor – worked hard. Our family has a photo from the late-1970s taken by the local paper; in the background I can see the 60 in a field pulling a flatbed wagon with its cargo visible. Bill Prahl in the foreground at age 77 is picking rocks. The tractor today has little value to most, but is priceless to a few.’
Virtual Favorite Tractor Parade
Robert Thullner of Herreid in north-central South Dakota is sharing his late dad John Thullner’s once-owned tractor, a 1946 Minneapolis Moline UTI. ‘My dad, a 1923 Austrian immigrant, became a farmer and bought the tractor in January 1947 from a traveling broker machinery salesman by the name of Marvin Shull of Oregon, Missouri. The purchase was part of the black-market trade shortly after and during World War II. My dad used the tractor until 1958 when he traded it for a new Minneapolis Moline GB gas tractor, which is still in constant use to power a grinder-mixer on the farm. The older tractor had three other owners before it was found by a rural fuel-delivery man about 15 months ago, in purgatory about 60 miles from the Thullner farm. It was dead in every respect but looked like it had the potential to be restored. So I repurchased it; with the help of a town mechanic and son it’s now field-ready. I still have the original purchase-order agreement, original owner’s manual where my dad wrote the serial number to completely identify ownership and the canceled checks for full payment of $2,906. That included a never-used pintle hitch that was still in our possession at the time of repurchase.’
Virtual Favorite Tractor Parade
Robert Orth of Diller in southwest Nebraska is the owner and driver of a 1956 Fordson Super Major. ‘I bought it in 1971 to be used as a blower tractor to fill my new Harvestore silo,’ he says. ‘I had it restored and painted several years ago. I’ve been driving it in local parades.’
Virtual Favorite Tractor Parade
Craig Wegner of Hawarden in northwestern Iowa says, ‘I started to drive an H when I was young. Then on my 60th birthday I bought one just like it.’
Virtual Favorite Tractor Parade
Otto Petersen of Corning in southwest Iowa collects and restores IH tractors, particularly front assist and high crops. The tractors had just finished a tractor ride for the Adams County fair.
Virtual Favorite Tractor Parade
Lorenz Ronnenkamp, 94, is sharing the story of his Farmalls, old and new. ‘Those of us who lived during the years of the 1930s witnessed a decade that brought about change,’ he says. ‘Weather was not exempt; we lived through drought, severe cold, tornadoes, and even one or two floods. The Depression took its hold on our community as we experienced farm foreclosures and bank failures. But it wasn’t all doom and glum; a reawakening took place across the country that would change our farming practices. Gone were the horse and horse machinery of the past. A new source of horsepower took its place – the Farmall tractors that arrived on the farms all through the 1930s. Beginning in 1932 the Farmall F20 became one of the most popular tractors in the country and remained so until in 1939. That’s when the new streamline Farmall H appeared and then it was off to the races for another 14 years. That prompted me to send you my photo of an old Farmall F20 together with the new Farmall H. I have had the pleasure of working during a lifetime with both the old and new.’
Virtual Favorite Tractor Parade
The two 1963 Oliver 1950 diesels connected with Goodyear Floatation tires belong to Clinton H. Mantz of Ogden in central Iowa. ‘I used them in my farming operations until I retired,’ he says. ‘These were very powerful tractors in their time.’
Virtual Favorite Tractor Parade
Tom Kasik of Richland in eastern Nebraska owns a 1964 John Deere 3020 Diesel tractor. ‘It’s the first tractor I owned,’ he says. ‘I bought it several years ago on a farm sale in eastern Nebraska. I primarily used it for feeding my cattle after I bought it, but have since upgraded to a bigger tractor and feed wagon. I mainly use it now on a box scraper and occasionally on a shredder and post-hole digger. I like it for its handiness and reliability. Not only is it older than me, but it’s in much better shape.’
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Virtual Favorite Tractor Parade
‘The Allis Chalmers 9x has the 9 for 9-ton weight and the x for experimental,’ says owner Ronald Lyon of rural Iowa. ‘The dozer blade is part of the frame; it didn’t prove successful. My dad bought this tractor new in 1958 for clearing timber and pulling a six-bottom plow on river-bottom soil.’
Virtual Favorite Tractor Parade
‘The Rumely G 20-40 has two speeds – 2.5 miles per hour – slow – and 1.5 miles per hour – slower,’ says owner Ronald Lyon of rural Iowa. ‘It’s the only G that I have heard of with a factory Pickering governor. I like this one because it’s an easy starter.’
Virtual Favorite Tractor Parade
A 1971 IH 1066 takes a break from turbo-tilling for Gary Krultz of Greenwood in central Wisconsin. The present caretaker for the tractor, he says it was the 1,246th one built and has put in more than 8,000 hours. It originally belonged to his late father. A little old-school, it was still headed to his brother Ed Krultz’ farm to turbo-till there in early May.
Virtual Favorite Tractor Parade
Steve Brockman of Shorewood in northern Illinois stands with his refurbished 1962 John Deere 3010 Diesel Tri-cycle. ’I first drove a 3010 for Gorman O’Reilly in 1965 on his Joliet, Illinois, farm – as a hired hand at the age of 15,’ he says. ‘He traded the tractor off in 1970 to Wheeler Implement in Kankakee, Illinois, for a larger machine. I wrote down the serial number in an old corn book. I told myself that someday, if I ever had enough money, I would find that tractor that I first drove for him.
‘In September 2017, after calling about 40 different 3010 diesel tri-cycles during many years, I called about one at Collins Equipment in Thorntown, Indiana. While speaking to Chris Collins, I pulled out my old corn book where I had jotted down the serial number in it many years before. I asked if he could read the serial number on his to me. I about jumped through the phone. I had finally found the first tractor I ever drove and Gorman’s original John Deere 3010.
‘I had it painted in May-June 2019 by Kevin Kunkel from Lisbon, Illinois. The same picture of the tractor now appears on the cover of my new autobiography, “It Should Have Been a Wonderful Life,” published in May 2020.’
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Virtual Favorite Tractor Parade
Marty L. James of Bunceton in north-central Missouri says, ‘This tractor is a 1951 Case SC. My dad served in the Army during the Korean conflict and came back to the farm circa 1956. He would have purchased this tractor soon thereafter. He used the tractor until the late 1960s when he parked it due to some minor mechanical problems. In 1982 my dad tried to sell it at my grandfather’s estate sale but it garnered no bids. In 1994 he tried to give it to a tractor-salvage company but they didn’t want it.
‘In the fall of 1994 my father died; my family and I moved to Boonville, Missouri. Dad always loved the Steam Engine show in Boonville; he would have been thrilled to know we moved there. In 1995 while attending the Missouri River Valley Steam Engine Show, I got the itch to restore Dad’s tractor. A couple of friends helped me haul it from our northern-Missouri farm to their shop near Arrow Rock, Missouri. I worked on it for about two years and have enjoyed it very much. It reminds me of my father – and those are good memories.’
Virtual Favorite Tractor Parade
Trent Gerdes of Hampton in northeast Iowa says, ‘This is our 1967 restored JD 3020 gas – now a parade tractor ride unit only. It was originally sold at a small-town dealer located 6 miles from our farm and returned to the area.'
Virtual Favorite Tractor Parade
Carl Gutt of Bowler in northeast Wisconsin says, ‘When I was a kid our neighbor Donald would drive these Case Tractors by our house. He was wearing those blue-striped overalls and hat – like that old song, Old McDonald had a Farm, EI-EI-O. I knew someday I wanted to have those Case tractors. My family and I have now owned them for years.’ The two tractors are a 1953 Case VAC-14 and a 1947 Case VAC.
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Virtual Favorite Tractor Parade
‘This 1951 Ford was owned by Charles Gilpin in St. Joseph, Missouri,’ say Richard and Diane Ferguson of Clarinda in southwest Iowa; she's Charlie’s granddaughter. ‘We purchased the 8N from the Gilpin estate in November 2004. Sitting in an old garage, on either its flat tires or just rims, no one knew how long it had been since it was last started. It eventually did start and ran long enough to load for its trip to Clarinda. Both new and used parts were eventually gathered from everywhere and anywhere, with a paint job later. The little 8N enjoys its new life on our acreage and in an occasional parade.’ They are members of the Tarkio Valley Antique Tractor Association; those activities have been severely curtailed recently. Visit www.facebook.com and search for the association for more information.
Virtual Favorite Tractor Parade
And what virtual tractor parade is complete without Big Bud? He shows his stuff in 2010 at the Antique Acres of Independence in northeast Iowa. Valerie Cull says, ‘My dad used to tell of how powerful this tractor was, that when plowing at night you could see that the discs would glow red-hot.’ In front of the tractor are John, Valerie and Ethan Cull with Grandpa Larry Peters.
Weighing in at about 100,000 pounds, Big Bud is 27 feet long, 20 feet wide and 14 feet tall. It has two 1,000-gallon fuel tanks to feed its powerful 16-cylinder Detroit diesel engine. Originally built in 1977 to put out 747 horsepower, previous owners increased it considerably.
Virtual Favorite Tractor Parade
The temperature is in the mid-90s during a parade in Alburnett, Iowa; Larry Peters takes a hand-off of water halfway through, from his son Brad Peters. Larry Peters grew up near Shellsburg in east-central Iowa, farming with a John Deere Model A.
Virtual Favorite Tractor Parade
Kurt Paeper of Humboldt in north-central Iowa says, ‘This 1930 Massey Harris four-wheel-drive is loaded for a parade. Difficult to believe that it has no power steering, lights or radio. But it has lots of air – cool in the winter and hot in the summer.’ Jay Tubbs drives the tractor in a parade held July 4, 2014.
Virtual Favorite Tractor Parade
Rosemary Carroll Paeper stands with her 1930 Massey Harris tractor, known locally as the ‘Tubbs Tractor.’ ‘The late Dorman Tubbs located it out west and brought it to Humboldt County, Iowa,’ says Kurt Paeper, her husband. ‘The GP Massey was way ahead of its time but it was overpriced so very few were sold. Remember that was Depression time in 1930. Many were scrapped during the war effort for World War II. If only this tractor could talk, what a story it would have.’
Virtual Favorite Tractor Parade
Steve Harrington of Arena in southern Wisconsin says, ‘My dad bought this tractor at a farm sale in May 1967 for $675. This tractor has done it all, from pulling logs to harvesting corn, wheat and soybeans to making hay. As the pictures show the tractor transfers shelled corn from the dryer to the other storage bins. The “M” has done that job for more than 40 years. I figure that’s more than 2 million bushels of corn.’
On the ID plate the serial number is FBK137125. On the right side there is a stamp with the date of 5-16-47, C.W.C.
Virtual Favorite Tractor Parade
Steve Harrington of Arena in southern Wisconsin says, ‘My dad bought this tractor at a farm sale in May 1967 for $675. This tractor has done it all, from pulling logs to harvesting corn, wheat and soybeans to making hay. As the pictures show the tractor transfers shelled corn from the dryer to the other storage bins. The “M” has done that job for more than 40 years. I figure that’s more than 2 million bushels of corn.’
On the ID plate the serial number is FBK137125. On the right side there is a stamp with the date of 5-16-47, C.W.C.
April showers bring spring crops
A White tractor is fresh in from spring field work at Tetzner's Dairy near Washburn, Wisconsin. Email photos of favorite tractors to tractors@agupdate.com as jpg attachments, with tractor information, producer name, address and phone, and family or farm information.
Virtual Favorite Tractor Parade
Pete Figi of Monroe in southern Wisconsin owns a 1959 511B JI Case tractor. ‘My dad bought this tractor used in 1968,’ Figi says. “Its date stamp on the block is 3-27-59. We thought we had the world by the tail with this tractor, but all too soon it was undersized. But it still rakes hay once in a while. It was my main tractor when I started farming in 1974 – hard-working, always reliable and pretty to look at.’
Virtual Favorite Tractor Parade
Lee Schnell of Mauston in central Wisconsin renovated his WD-45 1957 Allis-Chalmers as a tribute to his dad, who first taught him how to drive the tractor while raking hay when Lee was 8 years old. ‘I couldn’t reach the foot clutch so he would put it in gear and I could pull in the hand clutch,’ Schnell says. ‘The tractor took me about three years to finish. It’s basically brand new; the motor is redone as well as new clutch and tires. As for the sheet metal it has new fenders and battery box. I’ve put it in some local parades.’ The 80-acre family farm was a century farm in 1976 so it's almost 150 years old. Schnell's great-grandfather homesteaded the farm in 1876.
Virtual Favorite Tractor Parade
Lee Schnell of Mauston in central Wisconsin renovated his WD-45 1957 Allis-Chalmers as a tribute to his dad, who first taught him how to drive the tractor while raking hay when Lee was 8 years old. ‘I couldn’t reach the foot clutch so he would put it in gear and I could pull in the hand clutch,’ Schnell says. ‘The tractor took me about three years to finish. It’s basically brand new; the motor is redone as well as new clutch and tires. As for the sheet metal it has new fenders and battery box. I’ve put it in some local parades.’ The 80-acre family farm was a century farm in 1976 so it's almost 150 years old. Schnell's great-grandfather homesteaded the farm in 1876.
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Steve Sayer of Dunbar in eastern Nebraska owns a 1938 Allis Chalmers WC. ‘It was my Grandfather Willard Roos’ first tractor,’ he says. ‘I restored it in 1986 for 4-H.’
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Bill Seele of Cresco in northeast Iowa says he’s owned several tractors through the years – all red because that was his father’s color of choice. ‘This 1951 Farmall H is still my favorite,’ he says. ‘I was 4-and-a-half years old when it was delivered. I ‘helped’ plow the first furrow it turned as I insisted on being on Dad’s lap. It still ‘purrs like a kitten’ and is still powering elevators and raking hay. My grandson Harkan likes it too. So I call the tractor H and him Super H!’
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John and Marie Fick purchased a 1939 H Farmall new. It was passed down to their son and his wife, Rudolf and Erma Fick. Then it was passed down to the current owner, Rudolf''s and Erma’s son, Dale, and his wife, Diane Fick of Doon in far-northwest Iowa. In summer 2019 the grandchildren of John and Marie Fick celebrated the 80th birthday of the tractor with a reunion hayride including extended family. – Submitted by Gene and Bev Oeding of Luverne, Minnesota. Submit photos to tractors@agupdate.com with submitter name and address, photographer name if different, tractor information and history if known.
Ol' WD young at heart
An old Allis-Chalmers WD tractor sits hitched to a hay rake on the Robert Elkins farm east of New Glarus, Wisconsin. ... Email your photo of a favorite tractor to tractors@agupdate.com as a jpg attachment at least .3M or 300k in size. Include photographer name, address and phone, and tell us about your farm and/or family. Visit agriview.com to see our virtual tractor show!
Country Chuckles by Jonny Hawkins
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Fertilizer applied in field by tractor
In most cases fertilizer prices in 2020 are at or close to their least-expensive levels in more than a decade.
Virtual Favorite Tractor Parade
A restored Allis Chamers WD is ideal for pulling a layer-hen coop around the Beachy pasture in northeast Iowa. The family has 120-plus laying hens; they sell the eggs at a little farm stand along a main road as well as at farmers markets.
Field tilling near Dodgeville, Wisconsin
A farmer east of Dodgeville, Wisconsin, powers ahead with spring-tillage work despite a rather heavy snow shower Apr. 9. Temperatures hit 70 degrees and more the first weekend in May.
Horsepower strains at starting gate
Is it planting season yet? An old but young-in-spirit Oliver Super 88 tractor is ready to hit the field on the Adank Farm near Independence, Wisconsin.
Not willing to give up yet
A recent snowfall helps make this old Oliver tractor picture-perfect.
Old tractor abandoned in field
Many old tractors aren’t too far gone for enthusiasts who like to fix them.
Farmer works in field with old tractor
Even a 40-year-old tractor has a place on the farm today.
Older tractor
Older tractors can still be repaired because parts are available.
White 2-155 tractor
An old White 2-155 is an unsung hero. Like a center on a semi-pro football team, it's bowed but not broken. Instead it's ready for next week's battle.
Tractor disappears
An old tractor slowly disappears as snow falls quietly, blanketing trees and machinery alike.
Tractor cab replaced
Replacing the tractor cab on the frame doesn’t take as long as hooking up all the lines and hoses.
Life on the farm
Muir Elementary School kindergartners, parents and teachers ride behind on a tractor driven by farmer Tina Hinchley.
Oliver is Cold
An old antique Oliver tractor is covered with snow near New Glarus, Wisconsin. Store tractors and other equipment before snowfall appears.
Cooper Davis in toy-tractor pull
Cooper Davis, 8, son of Dan and Meghan Davis of Janesville, Wisconsin, participates in a toy-tractor pull at camp. He will later be recognized as "camper most likely to farm."
Pedal tractor
Braelyn Rein of Watertown giggles as she tries to move a bit farther in the pedal tractor pull at the Dodge County Fair on Friday afternoon. Kids age 3-12 could participate in the free competition held at the grandstand.