Rare tractor being restored at Pioneer Acres

It's a massive machine that farmers started using in 1913 while many of their neighbours were working their fields with a horse drawn plow. The Pioneer 30-60 was the invention of E. M. Wheelock who designed and built his tractors at a plant in Calgary. Shelly McElroy is the curator of Pioneer Acres just outside of Irricana and says the locally made tractor could work 125 acres a day when the traditional horse drawn equipment would be lucky to finish just one acre. "Around this time 1912, 1913 it