This tractor was bought in 1939 at the Kensington Supply Co. by Dale Brenner’s father, Lewis Brenner. It was used as all power on the 120-acre farm until 1948 when Lewis Brenner bought a John Deere Model B with a full line of new equipment.
After Lewis passed away in 1951, Dale’s brother took over the farm. A few years later he lost interest in farming and sold this tractor around 1960. Dale kept track of where the tractor was, always wanting to buy it back, but the owner would not sell. About 10 years ago, the owner passed away and Dale tried to purchase it from his widow, but it was still not for sale.
When she passed away about five years ago, Dale kept watching for the estate auction, but the tractor was not listed. He went to the sale and talked to one of the heirs and found out that the tractor had been sold a few weeks prior. Dale finally found the new owner and was able to purchase it. The tractor has since been completely restored by Dale (pictured) and his son, Edwin, and is now in mint condition.

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Glenn Jay Maurer purchased this 1952 John Deere Model B tractor new in the early 1950s. This photo of Maurer was taken in 1986 when he was 80. Maurer was a janitor for years at Goshen High School and later at West Branch. He used this tractor to farm his 40-acre farm in Patmos, Ohio.
When Maurer died in 1988, Louis McQuistion’s cousin bought the farm from Maurer’s family in 1989. The tractor was included in the sale.
McQuistion (pictured with the tractor) bought the tractor from his cousin in 1998, brought it home to Columbiana, and spent the summer working on it. He rebuilt the engine and restored the tractor. Later, he purchased a second John Deere B and swapped parts off it. A final addition was a John Deere 801 hitch and clamshell fenders.

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1947 Farmall BN owned by the Herbold family of Mantua, Ohio.

Originally purchased and owned by Raymond Ladner of Linesville, Pa., he nicknamed the tractor Red Rooster. It was then restored by his late grandson Charles Herbold of Mantua. The tractor has been in the family four generations and it looks as if the fifth generation is ready to take over.

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Richard Shaw has owned this tractor about a year. He bought it from an old friend who had owned it many years. The tractor is now electric and has a crank start only. Shaw claims it runs well and starts up right away. There are no break pedals; hand levers work the breaks. Shaw uses the tractor at Greentown Cemetery.

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Ed Pardee purchased this 1955 Allis Chalmers WD 45 in Saegertown, Pa., at John Newhard’s Wholesale Tractor Auction in 2005. Soon after, Ed’s friend, Willis Stoll of Saegertown, started to tear her apart to restore it. After a lot of elbow grease, the Allis was on her way to the 40th annual Pioneer Steam and Gas Engine Show in 2007, which featured Allis Chalmers models that year.

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Al Hall bought this Allis Chalmers WD from James Austin of Conneautville, Pa., who had worked about two years to restore the tractor. The photograph, incidentally, is of Al taking his first drive after getting her home from Austin. A “great lover” of Allis Chalmers, Al has had two Allis Chalmers WD 45s, one AC WC, and eight AC WDs (not all of them are restored… yet).

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James Gay of Atwater, Ohio, bought this 1948 Allis Chalmers WD on Oct. 8, 1948, and he sent along a copy of the purchase receipt from the Paul G. Mills Farm Equipment Co. in Ravenna to prove it. The purchase price: $1,715! It was the first WD in Portage County, Gay says. He restored the tractor in 1996, celebrated its 50th birthday in 1998 (when this photo was taken), and used it the first week of May 2008 for spraying!

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Clifford Jones bought this Cockshutt 30 brand new in 1947 and used it on his farm near Jeromesville, Ohio, for many years. In 2007, after rusting in a field for nearly 10 years, the tractor was completely restored by his son, Mark Jones.

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Wade Schisler of Austintown, Ohio, and his son, Pete, bought this 1953 Co-op E3 at the farm auction of Wade’s brother Lamont. Lamont had bought it new from the Mahoning Farm Bureau Co-op in Canfield, where both brothers worked. Last summer, Pete took it all apart, cleaned it and painted it to look like new again.

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Don Glenn bought the shredder rusty and not running in New Bedford, Ohio. He worked several years to restore it to running condition. He also has a corn binder he uses to cut corn for the demonstrations he does at the local fair and antique equipment shows. He’s also taken the shredder to Michigan, where they used a steam engine to run it.

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