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Brad Walk purchased the first production John Deere 6030 ever built with the help of a friend. Since then, he's turned his love of 6030s into a business that employs four full-time workers. The face behind www.My3060.com, Walk maintains an impressive 6030 collection while managing the company that includes buying and selling tractors, restoring machines, and providing parts and service.

He also farms on an operation that includes hogs and cattle.

Watch this video interview with Heritage Iron Magazine to learn more about this entrepreneur: 

Learn more at the Heritage Iron website

There are seats left for this special bus tour!  

Heritage Iron will be hosting a bus tour starting June 3 that will stop at four tractor museums!

The $275 price is all-inclusive with all bus fees, eight meals, two nights lodging and all museum entry fees. Learn more by clicking here. 

There are two departure spots: Greenville, IL and Penfield IL.

And the schedule includes:

Dumont Oliver Museum:  This museum represents the lifetime collection of Lyle & Helen  Dumont of Sigourney, Iowa. Included in this tour are over 100 Beautifully restored tractors, horse-drawn equipment, buggies & gas engines, a Roy Rogers Collection and for ladies, toys, dolls and dishes.

The Kinze Innovation Center (PLUS, a special guided tour by Jon Kinzenbaw of his personal collection):  a 25,000 square foot, state-of-the-art facility built to showcase the history of Kinze Manufacturing. From the early years of Jon Kinzenbaw’s life to the modern innovations used today, this museum setting tells the story of the founding, hard work, leadership and vision that IS Kinze. See Big Blue on display. Jon’s first grain cart, planters, memorabilia & much more! Walk through a  replica of Jon’s first shop, complete with tools, jigs even a 5020 repower. Listen to Jon tell the story of his ideas through many video screens through the facility. And then, take a tour of the Kinze Manufacturing plant.

Darold Sindt Antique Museum in Keystone, IA. - Featuring a remarkable variety of approximately 200 tractors and implements plus riding mowers, pedal tractors, engines and other interesting memorabilia.

Plus a BONUS tour of the Kaiser Oliver Collection.

Learn more at the Heritage Iron website

 Heritage Iron will be hosting a bus tour starting June 3 that will stop at four tractor museums!

The $275 price is all-inclusive with all bus fees, eight meals, two nights lodging and all museum entry fees. Learn more by clicking here. 

There are two departure spots: Greenville, IL and Penfield IL.

And the schedule includes:

Dumont Oliver Museum:  This museum represents the lifetime collection of Lyle & Helen  Dumont of Sigourney, Iowa. Included in this tour are over 100 Beautifully restored tractors, horse-drawn equipment, buggies & gas engines, a Roy Rogers Collection and for ladies, toys, dolls and dishes.

The Kinze Innovation Center (PLUS, a special guided tour by Jon Kinzenbaw of his personal collection):  a 25,000 square foot, state-of-the-art facility built to showcase the history of Kinze Manufacturing. From the early years of Jon Kinzenbaw’s life to the modern innovations used today, this museum setting tells the story of the founding, hard work, leadership and vision that IS Kinze. See Big Blue on display. Jon’s first grain cart, planters, memorabilia & much more! Walk through a  replica of Jon’s first shop, complete with tools, jigs even a 5020 repower. Listen to Jon tell the story of his ideas through many video screens through the facility. And then, take a tour of the Kinze Manufacturing plant.

Darold Sindt Antique Museum in Keystone, IA. - Featuring a remarkable variety of approximately 200 tractors and implements plus riding mowers, pedal tractors, engines and other interesting memorabilia.

Plus a BONUS tour of the Kaiser Oliver Collection.

Learn more at the Heritage Iron website

A farm family can be described with many words: hard-working, respected, strong, and many more pop to the top of one’s head. And it’s with appreciation and gratitude that Heritage Iron has partnered with Farm Rescue to present the Farmer’s Hands and Farmer’s Wife prints.

The Beautiful Hands of a Farmer Print (11"x14" image)

The Beautiful Hands of a Farmer's Wife Print (11"x14" image)

They are also available framed here: http://farmrescue.org/get_involved/store.html

All (100%) of the profits from the sale of these prints goes to Farm Rescue, a non-profit organization that seeks to help farmers who have suffered a major injury, illness or natural disaster. The organization plants and harvests crops free of charge for those families.

In 2012, Farm Rescue was able to help 41 farm families.

For more, Farm Rescue Website

And here’s a video from the organization interviewing a family that has benefited from their help: 

 Sherry Schaefer started Heritage Iron in 2008, and she also edits the Oliver Heritage magazine. Sherry grew up around tractors and equipment her entire life. Her grandfather, Ervin Schaefer, was an Oliver tractor dealer in both Granite City and Hamel, Illinois from 1936 -1965. Her father, Oliver "Ollie" Schaefer, is a used Oliver tractor and equipment dealer in Greenville, Illinois. The Schaefer family also owned and operated a national tractor pulling sled service for more than 25 years beginning in the late 1960’s.

Schaefer worked along-side her father throughout the pulling sled years. When she was not tractor-pulling, Schaefer worked as a truck driver hauling grain to elevators along the Mississippi River.  The hours she spent on the farm loading grain and tractor pulling gave her vast exposure to tractors of all makes and models to which she gained an affection for. In 1993 Schaefer became the editor of the Hart-Parr Oliver Collectors magazine, which focused exclusively on the Oliver brand of equipment.  Schaefer served in this capacity for 10 ½ years before venturing out on her own.  

These are the tractor you’ll find around the office at Heritage Iron today: 

Super Oliver 55

This belonged to her grandfather’s mechanic at his Oliver dealership. "This was Bill and Zelda’s tractor," Sherry says. After their passing, she was sure to make "Willie" part of her family.

Oliver 770

"This is my parade tractor," she says. "It had a cornpicker mounted to it, so for the most part it has been protected, but I did go ahead and repaint it."

Oliver 1600

This is one of the workhorses of Sherry’s collection. Known as "The Teenager" because it’s a 1600 series, this tractor can be found blading the office’s long driveway and doing other work around the building.

Oliver OC-46      

Affectionately called "Digger" this crawler tractor can be found multi-tasking and is called on when products needs to be loaded and lifted onto the trailer for the shows across the country.