Jan 24, 2017 Sometimes tractors aren’t just tractors. Often times they become more, almost like part of the family.

Happy memories tied to time spent with family members. Quite often as I travel the country I find myself deep in conversation with folks regarding their family’s special or favorite tractor. I’ve always found it fascinating to listen to these stories. I always will. Thank you for sharing your tractor stories/memories with me.

Every once in a while, one of these tractor conversations stands out for some special reason, could be the way the person told the story with a glint or tear in the eye, could be the pictures of the tractor they share with me, could be anything really. Just for some reason.these particular tractor stories stand apart. Folks, meet 26 year old Andrew Conrad, a Service Technician for Sloan Implement in Cuba City, WI () I met Andrew 2 years ago at a February 2015 farm retirement auction in Sherrill, IA we were filming for our Machinery Pete TV show. Andrew was 24 at the time. We started visiting about his father Alan’s 1991 John Deere 4455 2WD tractor (Alan pictured above with his 1991 John Deere 4455, just under 3,000 hours on it now).

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Andrew recalled vividly years earlier when they bought this 4455 from a farmer in Illinois when it had around 1,400 hours on it. Andrew told the “story” on this tractor and what it meant to him and his family. Days after that February 2015 auction Andrew sent me a paper he had written in class at Northeast Iowa Community College in Calmar, IA, John Deere Technology Program. I remember thinking.”how cool, a young guy writing a college paper about his family’s tractor!” This 1991 John Deere 4455 did indeed have quite a “story”. I’ll let Andrew tell the talehere was his very cool college paper: “The 4455 - By Andrew Conrad” - In the spring of 2003 my father, Alan Conrad, was looking for a nice John Deere cab tractor. His interests were towards a John Deere 55 series tractor, especially a 4455. My father told me that spring, “If I can find a nice 4455 that’s been well kept up, and for the right price, I will buy it”.

Many farmers, as well as my father understand that John Deere 55 series tractors are very coveted among farmers because they are the last series of John Deere tractors that were based off of the New Generation series of John Deere tractors. This story details the luck, timing, and happens to be one of the most memorable moments of farming with my father, when he purchased his John Deere 4455! One night, my father was eating supper at work, and one of his coworkers, by the name of Steve Ernst, was scrolling through the classified ads in a farm paper. He noticed that a farmer had a John Deere 8 row wide corn planter for sale and a John Deere 4455 that had 1,600 original hours on the tachometer. Steve was looking for a corn planter at the time, and my father happened to be looking for a 4455.

A few days later Steve called the farmer, but the corn planter happened to be sold. Steve told my father that he didn’t know if the tractor was sold or not. My father thought, “I’ll give the farmer a call”.

Later, my father called him and he told my father that the tractor had a quad-range transmission, 2WD, with 1,600 original hours on the tachometer, the dual wheels sold with the tractor, and he said that the tractor was still for sale. My father then set up a time to meet with the farmer. My father loaded the whole family up in the car and drove us to Florence, Illinois, to take a look at the 4455, on a beautiful Sunday afternoon in late March of 2003. We all carefully took a look at the tractor because the appearance of the tractor looked like “NEW!” Even the cab was in immaculate condition! My father and I jumped up in the cab and took it for a drive around the farmyard. Dad asked what I thought about the tractor, and I said “Well it’s a lot different sitting in a cab than sitting on the fender of the 1456 International Harvester.” My father laughed. I also said, “It runs smooth and sitting in this cab, I can hardly hear the tractor run.” I grew up riding on the fender of the 1456 and had been my father’s main tractor for 18 years.

My father purchased the 1456 with a chrome exhaust pipe. While operating the 1456 at wide open throttle during tillage applications, the 1456 operates very loudly and vibrates the operates plate form constantly. Dad talked with the farmer, Gale Otto, and he said “I will think on it and we will stay in touch!” The next few days my father was thinking constantly about the 4455.