Restoring ONE OF A KIND
When a friend told George Benson that he had the perfect tractor for him, George couldn’t think what he was about to see, and he certainly didn’t expect it to be a case of love at first sight. But on a visit to “Rumely Bill” Krumweide in Drake, North Dakota, he saw a one-of-a-kind piece. “It runs good, with a 6hp 1928 McCormick-Deering gas engine in it,” Bill told him, “but all the rest of it is homemade.’”
“As soon as I saw it,” George says, “I loved it.” The tractor was built by an elderly collector from Drake who specialized in making large-size scale models of old tractors, but whose name is lost to posterity. He sold the tractor as his health deteriorated.
George, who lives in Fletcher, Minnesota, says Bill told him that the builder didn’t use any plans. “He just used information from his brain,” he says.
