NAPPANEE, Ind. — The Northwood High School tractor restoration team has officially submitted its entry for the Delo Tractor restoration project. Members of the team consist of Chad Stutzman, Emily Sheets, Damon Herschberger, Andrew Chapman and Cody Anglemyer. The team has invested over 1,200 hours into the 1957 Farmall 450 to complete a beautiful restoration.

The team also submitted a video along with an almost sixty page book that conveyed everything they did to and with the tractor. The video is available for viewing on Delo’s tractor restoration 2012 YouTube page, and there is also a link from the company’s web page at www.delotractorrestoration.com 

The voting procedure will be on www.delotractorrestorationcompetition.com and actual voting began on Sept. 10. Northwood students invite and encourage Farm World readers to log on and vote for the Northwood video submission. Delo will officially announce the 12 finalist teams who entered on Sept. 24 on Facebook.

Students are in charge of promoting the tractor, and it has been on display and in use numerous times at public events this year. An event for display also took place at the Nappanee Apple Festival (Sept. 14-16), where students  used a three-bottom plow to work up the Elkhart County Food Bank garden this fall. The National FFA Convention will be held Oct. 24 through 27, but the team will not be bringing their tractor, only what they have learned and their experiences during the last year of restoration. 

Elkhart County community members also helped teach the students about the tractor. Mr. Butch Hamman, Howard Yoder, Dan Schmucker, and Barney Beer are only a few people who assisted in the restoration. As the team stated in their concluding sentence of the book, “We discovered that it takes a caring and motivated community to develop both a quality restoration and restoration team.”