Niles farmer dies when tractor rolls down hill

An 88-year-old man was killed Monday afternoon when his Farmall tractor rolled down a 30-foot embankment in front of his Old Salt Road farm in the town of Niles, the Cayuga County Sheriff’s Office said.
Deputies said August Komoroski was attempting to turn his Farmall tractor with a sickle-arm mower at the top of the embankment when the tractor rolled down the hill toward the road, pinning him underneath.

Rare tractors at the Roundup

Fred and Rita Vergin of Loretto, northwest of the Twin Cities, understand the difficulties of finding white Farmall demonstrator tractors to purchase. They own all three models that were produced in 1950.

These tractors are rare. So rare, that the Vergins have never met another person that owns the models including the Farmall C, Farmall Cub and the Farmall Super A.

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Sea of Red, Red Power Roundup

Setup for the 22nd annual National Red Power Roundup is under way at the Freeborn County Fairgrounds.

Already on Tuesday tractors were lined up facing Bridge Avenue at the Freeborn County Fairgrounds even though the National Red Power Roundup doesn’t officially start until Thursday. -- Kelli Lageson/Albert Lea Tribune
The Roundup is a three-day summer show and is being hosted by Minnesota Chapter 15 of the International Harvester Collectors Club and will run from June 23-25.

13 Year Old Wyatt Sailor Restores Tractors Just Like His Father

MANCHESTER — There is something special about the bond that fathers and their sons share.

For Wyatt Sailor the bond that he shared with his father, Colby, was cut short. His father died in 2006.

Sailor, 13, has found a way to continue to share a common bond with his father. He has a passion for restoring old tractors. This passion was ignited by the way his dad restored classic trucks.

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Farmall H -- The Purple Cancer Eater

A purple cow - maybe. But a brightly gleaming full-size purple vintage farm tractor? Never until Sunday.

“I saw it out there, and I thought, ‘Boy, that must have been some party,’” Orion Samuelson, longtime WGN farm radio personality, said of the 64-year-old International H tractor, resplendent in its magnificent coat of deep purple enamel, at the 10th annual Heritage Tractor Adventure at the Grundy County Fairgrounds.

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