john deere

Max’s Tractor Shed: Childhood mishap led to a custom fix, which helped Shelley Bruha find his father's old machine. An old machine’s story lives in its steel bones because heritage is held by iron. Decades ago, young Shelley Bruha clambered onto his father’s open station 1946 John Deere GM tractor. Its hand clutch had recently been tightened — so much that Shelley couldn’t slow down at the field’s headland. “He rode that tractor right through a fencerow, unable to activate the hand clutch,” farm broadcaster Max Armstrong said about this week’s Tractor Shed selection. The elder Nebraska farmer