Girl Tractor Team Qualifies for Finals
Published: Friday, September 21, 2018
Chevron Products Co., has announced the finalists for its 2018 Delo Tractor Restoration Competition, including a NorthWood High School FFA team from Nappanee. The event brings the country's top teen tractor restoration specialists to Indianapolis during the 90th National FFA Convention to compete in the only national competition of its kind.
Katelynn Hancock and Taylor Martin are the NorthWood FFA members selected as finalists in the competition. They restored a 1950 John Deere MT, which will be in the national competition.
"There is a clear need for programs that support this type of education and provide this experience," said Dan Holdmeyer, Industrial and Coolants Brand Manager, Chevron Products Co. "The Tractor Restoration Competition is a place where participants develop skills applicable to a career in agriculture, diesel mechanics, or any business actually. Regardless of where their life takes our participants, the Delo Tractor Restoration Competition experience helps to prepare them for success."
All entrants to the Delo Tractor Restoration Competition are required to submit a workbook detailing the entire tractor restoration process, from mechanical overhauls of the engine, transmission and auxiliary and ancillary systems, to the external appearance of the tractors. Judges review these workbooks and entrant videos to select competition finalists.
Over a two-day period, the 12 finalists present their projects to a panel of four professional tractor restorers. Each project is then graded on the restoration process, safety precautions, results, documentation, oral presentation and responses to the judge's questions.
At an awards banquet held on the final evening of the competition, winners are announced. The grand champion will be awarded $10,000, the reserve champion receives $5,000, and third place takes home $3,000.
Other finalists for the 2018 Delo Tractor Restoration Competition are:
• Everett Herrington, Idalou FFA, Idalou, Texas: 1968 Massey-Ferguson;
• Austin Reynolds, Ira FFA, Ira, Texas: 1955 Farmall Cub;
• Austin Chavez, Cuero High School, Cuero, Texas: 1965 John Deere Model 4020;
• Ricky Schilling, Fayetteville ISD #278, Fayetteville, Texas: 1960 John Deere 1960 JD 435;
• Four Rivers Career H.S., Four Rivers Career Center Night Shift, Washington, Missouri: 1949 John Deere Model "A";
• Devin Haywood, Hastings FFA, Hastings, Michigan: 1957 Farmall 450 Diesel;
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