Some family heirlooms sit in attics or pass quietly from one generation to the next. For Nebraska farmer Shelley Bruha, his was a 1946 John Deere GM tractor, an old machine that disappeared from the family decades ago and was eventually found rusting beneath a tree on another Nebraska farm. What gave it away was not a serial number or a familiar paint job. It was a small modification made by his father many years earlier, after a childhood accident involving the tractor’s hand clutch, states an online report by Farm Progress. Scroll down to read the details.
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