January/February 2022 Antique Power

January/February 2022 Antique Power

NEW ISSUE: The January/February 2022 issue of Antique Power magazine is available in our gift shop and will be available in subscriber mailboxes and on newsstands soon. This issue features the Fred family’s 1941 CO-OP Model B-2 Junior. text by Eli Fred • photos by James Fred

“The Tractor That Started It All”

A 1941 CO-OP Model B-2 Junior tractor has become a treasure to the Fred family.

My grandfather Lavon Fred bought our 1941 CO-OP Model B-2 Junior tractor back in 1983 from a salvage yard near Delphi, Indiana. He restored it a year later. I remember the B-2 Junior always being around the farm in Grandpa’s antique tractor collection. It was one of his favorites and was a reliable, smooth-running tractor. This was one of Grandpa’s first antique tractor purchases and restorations, and it gave him the bug to continue collecting lesser-known tractors.

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November/December 2021 Antique Power

November/December 2021 Antique Power

NEW ISSUE: The November/December 2021 issue of Antique Power magazine is available in our gift shop and will be available in subscriber mailboxes and on newsstands soon. This issue features our 2021 Century Tractor! It is the Ebling family’s 1921 Minneapolis Threshing Machine Co. Model 22-44. text by Andrew Ebling with Rick Mannen • photos by Brad Bowling

The Ebling family has long been interested in tractors. The family patriarch, Gary Ebling, grew up on the farm near Northfield, Minnesota, and remembered watching an Aultman & Taylor Co. Model 22-45 tractor leading a threshing outfit in the neighborhood.

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September/October 2021 Antique Power

September/October 2021 Antique Power

NEW ISSUE: The September/October 2021 issue of Antique Power magazine is available in our gift shop and will be available in subscriber mailboxes and on newsstands soon. Our latest cover tractor is a stunning 1969 Allis-Chalmers Model Two-Twenty owned by Dale Cook. text by Candace Brown • photos by Carrie Nickerson

Dale Cook is a fourth-generation Ontario farmer with a friendly personality, easy laugh, and humble demeanor, although he owns a tractor that could make other collectors envious. Cook’s 1969 Allis-Chalmers Mfg. Co. Model Two-Twenty is a fine example of this rather rare model, but its low serial no. of 1026 makes it even more special. Between 1969 and 1972, beginning with serial no. 1004, the A-C factory in West Allis, Wisconsin, produced 1,765 two-wheel-drive units like Cook’s, plus 100 with front-wheel assist beginning in June 1970.

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July/August 2021 Antique Power

July/August 2021 Antique Power

NEW ISSUE: The July/August 2021 issue of Antique Power magazine is available in our gift shop and will be available in subscriber mailboxes and on newsstands soon. Our latest cover tractor is a beautiful 1957 John Deere & Co. Model 620 LP-Gas Orchard tractor owned by Jerry Neal. text by Robert Gabrick • photos by Brad Bowling

Jerry Neal, the owner of our featured 1957 John Deere & Co. Model 620 LP-Gas Orchard tractor is a co-founder of one of the largest semiconductor manufacturing companies in the world, R.F. Micro Devices Inc., now Qorvo. He and his wife Linda established Linbrook Heritage Estate in Trinity, North Carolina, in 2007 as a working farm and forest to preserve North Carolina’s farming heritage and industrial legacy, as well as conserve the forests and farmland. The 500-acre estate is home to the following four museums.

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May/June 2021 Antique Power

May/June 2021 Antique Power

NEW ISSUE: The May/June 2021 issue of Antique Power magazine is available in our gift shop and will be available in subscriber mailboxes and on newsstands soon. Our latest cover tractor is Stewart Paquette’s 1981 International Harvester Model 3588 2+2. This feature is written by Rick Mannen and photos by Mark Dalton.

Once the 100-horsepower barrier had been breached, tractor builders quickly moved up the power scale. In the early 1970s, the International Harvester Co. had a line of heavy rear-wheel-drive tractors in the 66-series. The largest, the Model 1566, produced over 140 drawbar horsepower. This series was updated in 1976 to the 86-series tractors.

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March/April 2021 Antique Power

March/April 2021 Antique Power

NEW ISSUE: The March/April 2021 issue of Antique Power magazine is available in our gift shop and will be available in subscriber mailboxes and on newsstands soon. Our latest cover tractor is Steve and Diana Stebbins’ 1972 Oliver Model 2655. This feature is written by Peggy Shank and Rick Mannen and photographed by Brad Bowling.

Farm power glows green on the Stebbins Farm because the owners, Steve and Diana Stebbins, prefer Oliver tractors above all others. According to Diana, “95 percent of our 17 tractors are Olivers or from the Oliver line, including a couple of Averys and three Oliver crawlers.” The giant in the fleet, our featured 1972 Model 2655, dwarfs the smallest in their stable, a Model 60.

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