In 1946 Deere advised Jesse that they were going to discontinue the Model BO. It was suggested they would welcome the pursuit of the possibility of converting their new Model M to tracks. They sent him a Model M chassis, and he converted it into a crawler. Col. Wiman along with P. Murphy came out in November of 1946 to see the conversion Jesse had done on the Model M. They ended up having a race between a BO and the newly converted Model M Crawler. Wouldn’t you know it the Col won and it wasn’t because he was the boss, the BO has a faster gear ratio. Upon completing the Model M conversion, Deere and Company made an offer to purchase Lindeman Power Equipment Company.