Oct. 1, 2024
Meeting Place: Gilbert High School Classroom – 7 p.m.
Welcome \ Introductions: Don kicked off our meeting.
Guest and family additions: None
Treasurer Report: $1,484.01
Old Business: Pay your dues.
New Business: Trip in December. Club will see about going to Algona to a farm museum and a WWII museum. Maybe one before lunch and one after lunch. Marvin will check into details for when they would be open and cost. Date will be determined, hopefully not the 2nd weekend of December.
Discussion Items: We need presenters. We have Nov. and Dec. covered.
Auction or Threshing events: None
For Sale or Wish List: Bob Gibson, has for sale, 4 weights off a Cub Cadet which will work on other tractors.
The Dyersville’s annual Farm Toy Show will be held in November.
Presentation: Dan and Jen Peterman
Dan and his wife purchased Jorde’s Decals. Travis finally decided to sell, after many years of trying to purchase the business. They weren’t his first choice; but they were happy to be the second choice. They purchased the name, as it was well known and people can continue to use the phone number to contact them for their decal orders. Travis started the business in 1976. Dan started working with Travis in 1978 when he was buying decals for many of his restoration projects.
Taking over the business was interesting, as Travis didn’t have an organized decal system. Dan, Jen and her mom sorted many boxes of decals to put things in order. They even have a new building to house the decals.
Dan had numerous boards with the John Deere decals they sell.
In order to sell the decals Dan had to go through a very detailed and hard interview with John Deere. It took over 2 years for Dan to become licensed to sell John Deere decals in the U.S. and Canada. Dan will have to renew the license in 2 years and hopefully the renewal will be quicker. There are a lot of reports required by John Deere for each of their sells, plus a license hologram for John Deere must be in the order. John Deere gets 10% of the sales. Other companies such as Case, IH, Agco, and Oliver don’t care about who makes their decals.
Dan, with his current license, sells John Deere decals for models up to 1975, in sets or individual decals, even single letters or numbers in some cases. John Deere has to approve all new decals. Dan has to have a 5-million-dollar liability insurance policy just to sell decals. When ordering decals Dan tries to obtain as much information from the customer as possible to make sure they get the correct decal. Things he checks are year, make, model, options on the tractor, combine, or whatever it is they’re calling about. He can’t do garden tractor decals as that license is not included with his and another person holds the garden tractor decal license. He does do optional items on John Deere tractors and various John Deere non-tractor items. E.g. Be careful decals, gauge decals, oil cans, bicycles, implements, gasoline, etc. Dan also makes old dealership decals.
Jen’s 73 yr. old mom spends Friday’s packaging orders and she’s extremely detailed and picky on how things are packaged. Jen helps do the bookwork on Fridays and works full time for an insurance company. Dan still does restoration work. They have a lady in Webster City whom they work with for making decals, Kristian or K Stein business design.