Completely green. Dan Studniski grew up in the rich farm country of Minnesota and the only tractors you would have found there were John Deere's. "I love that green and yellow," responded when talking about his brand.

"I grew up on a farm I always loved the big tractors. Then I moved to the city and I couldn’t have tractors."

Studniski found a great compromise. One day while he was going through a garden tractor boneyard and he came across a little treasure, his first 70. He pretty much fell in love with it and decided he had to have it. The guy was pretty easy going and Studniski was pretty much able to talk the guy out of it. Future trips to the boneyard resulted in a couple more additions to his collection. One tractor in particular looked so much like a 3020 that he made a farm tractor out of it.  "I had no idea it would turn into that when I started it 4 years later.  It came together piece by piece."

For the past decade Studniski has spent a great deal of time make garden tractors look new again. He paints some of tractors himself, others by someone else. His family isn't interested in tractors, "they didn't grow up on a farm". Although his son, Wyatt, enjoyed showing off his dad's fine work at Expo 2008. 

 If you are unable to find him at the garden tractor boneyard, look on commercial construction sites in the Twin Cities area.  Being outdoors biking or canoeing top his list of hobbies as well as spending time with his son, Wyatt.

"Go Vikings!"