Keller’s Retired Tractors in Wisconsin collected tractors for 50 years, 587 tractors, 74 of them are the first production tractors off the assembly line, 12 are experimental

Bruce’s grandfather, John Keller, who never collected himself, but opened a John Deere dealership in Forest Junction in 1929.

By the time the 1980s rolled around, Bruce and his dad had shifted their collecting philosophy from simply old tractors to rare ones.

“There’s some tractors that are not common to our area. High crops were down in Louisiana, Florida and Californi. Orchard tractors, which there are a few in Wisconsin but not real popular. So we started collecting the rare stuff,” explains Bruce

Bruce says one of his dad’s prized finds is a 1929 Experimental John Deere, 

It took Bruce 32 years to get an experimental 1936 John Deere BW-40, a special narrow experimental tractor of which only six were ever made and only 4 exist, which were sent to vegetable farmers in the Sacramento Valley.

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