November/December 2021 Antique Power
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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
At Home in Minnesota
A 1921 Minneapolis Threshing Machine Co. Model 22-44 tractor helped overcome tragic loss in two families.
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.
The family was loyal to the Allis-Chalmers Mfg. Co. brand. Gary’s grandfather Fern Ebling, a World War I veteran, bought an Allis-Chalmers Model CA new in 1952. This tractor is still with the family. When he was in his 30s, Gary began collecting a few older tractors. His sons Andrew and John arrived in the 1980s, and as they grew, Gary took them under his wing, and the three collected tractors together. They would drive the dirt roads looking for old iron, and soon built a small stable of mostly 1930s–1950s Allis-Chalmers and John Deere & Co. tractors.
Starting around 2005, the Eblings gravitated toward finding steel-wheel tractors. They had regularly attended the Pioneer Power Assoc. show in Le Sueur, Minnesota. A landmark piece of equipment at that show was a Minneapolis Threshing Machine Co. (MTM) Model 22-44 tractor, which Ebling and sons greatly admired. The size of that model, the unique composition of design, and the fact it was Minnesota-made all contributed to their interest in owning one. The family lives some 40 miles from where the MTM factory was located, in Hopkins, Minnesota.
By the late 2010s they were actively seeking an MTM 22-44 tractor. That search led Gary and Andy to the 2013 auction held for noted collector Jim Erdle in Canandaigua, New York, to bid on a 22-44 tractor. Their bid for the MTM was unsuccessful, but they bought a Sawyer-Massey Co. Model 20-40 as a pleasant consolation prize!
To read more about the 1921 Minneapolis Threshing Machine Co. Model 22-44, pick up a copy of the November/December 2021 issue of Antique Power magazine!
Other articles in this issue include:
Going Big with the Oliver 1850
Dramatic changes were ahead for Oliver as it entered the 1960s with a new higher horsepower tractor lineup.
text by Chad Elmore • photos by Brad Bowling2021 Century Tractor: At Home in Minnesota
A 1921 Minneapolis Threshing Machine Co. Model 22-44 tractor helped overcome tragic loss in two families.
text by Andrew Ebling with Rick Mannen • photos by Brad BowlingA Game Changer
Mike Androvich’s 1921 International Harvester 15-30 helped solidify the lightweight tractor in farmers’ hearts and minds.
text by Candace Brown • photos by Brad BowlingFrom the Editor
Letters to the Editor
The Canada Connection Make Your Own Darn Tractor
Garden Tractors Garden Tractors in Cockshutt Red
Photos from the Attic
Keeping History Alive The Road to Nebraska
The Book Shed
Classifieds
Tech Tips The Muck Stops Here, Core Sampling of a John Deere
Scaled Down, Built Up Tabletop Farming
Of Grease & Chaff Houdini and the Pan Seat
Gallery photo and text by James Bottomley
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November/December 2021 Antique Power
