What happens when Harders meet Ohnstads?
THE PARTY DOESN’T STOP!
Ava and Shawn Ohnstad have been together since the ’80s. Tanya and Jason Harder since the ’90s.
Two couples who already knew how to have a good time — and then they found each other in the early 2000s and made it a group effort.
Four people. One long friendship. And a combined tolerance for a good time that their own kids still can’t keep up with.
Put their last names together and you get the HardOhns.
Put the HardOhns together and you get SuFu Tractor.
It was only a matter of time.
The Road Here Wasn’t Straight. (It Never Is for the Good Stuff).
2021 – The Idea Gets Serious
It started the way most great ideas do — with a “what if” that wouldn’t go away.
What if Sioux Falls had a party tractor? Not a party bus. Not a sip-and-cycle. A tractor — rolling through downtown, open air, dance floor, two bars, the whole city as the backdrop.
The HardOhns spent a full year finding out if it was even possible. Meetings with the city. Research. Regulations. Questions nobody had answers to yet because nobody had ever asked them. They got the greenlight.
Then came the trailer.
The first manufacturer signed on — and then vanished. Ghosted. No trailer, no tractor, no SuFu. Most people would’ve read that as a sign.
The HardOhns found another builder out of Ohio. The trailer got built. They loaded it onto a big rig and watched it roll toward Sioux Falls.
It was really happening.
2022 — The First Season
Sioux Falls had just come out the other side of something heavy. Two years of lockdowns, canceled plans, and a city that had forgotten what it felt like to just go do something. People were ready — they just needed somewhere to go.
SuFu Tractor gave them that.
The tractor rolled down Phillips Avenue and something clicked immediately. Strangers climbed on and became friends before the first stop. People on the sidewalks waved, honked, pointed, and grinned like they’d just seen the best thing they’d seen all year. Riders stood above it all — open air, cold drink in hand, the city performing just for them — and felt something they hadn’t felt in a while.
Pure, uncomplicated joy.
The press showed up. The community showed up. The rides sold out. Sioux Falls had its party tractor and it turned out Sioux Falls had needed one all along.
2023 — The State Says No
SuFu Tractor went to renew. Routine. Expected. The answer was anything but.
The city and state said no. In order to hold a liquor license, the trailer needed to be pulled by a licensed vehicle — and South Dakota couldn’t license a tractor. It was, by most reasonable readings, a bad interpretation of the statute. But bad interpretations still shut you down.
Just like that, the tractor was parked.
Four people who had spent two years building something from scratch — fighting for permits, sourcing a trailer from Ohio, surviving a ghost manufacturer, pouring everything into a first season that had genuinely moved people — were told to stop.
They didn’t stop.
The battle had just begun.
2024 — Grit Over Everything
No playbook exists for this. You just keep asking questions.
That’s what Ava and Tanya did. Through sheer determination, a little legal help, and the kind of stubborn optimism that South Dakota seems to produce in certain people, they found threads worth pulling. Dead ends led to new doors. Conversations that went nowhere led to conversations that went somewhere.
The promise of a path forward started to take shape. Slowly. Quietly. The HardOhns kept the faith and kept pushing.
2025 — We Back.
They didn’t know until weeks before the season opened. And then — green light.
The tractor rolled back onto Phillips Avenue and Sioux Falls welcomed it home like it had never left. The rides filled up. The strangers became friends again. The city waved back again. Three years of fighting, waiting, and refusing to quit — and the reward was exactly what they’d always said it would be: 90 minutes of open-air joy rolling through the city they love.
Some people called it a long shot. Some called it tacky. Some get their kicks stomping on a dream.
The HardOhns called it a Tuesday.
2026 — The Party Keeps Growing
This year, SuFu Tractor joins the Sioux Falls Chamber of Commerce — because this isn’t just a fun night out anymore. It’s a piece of what makes this city worth showing off.
More rides. More themed nights. More strangers becoming friends in 90 minutes on a lighted dance floor behind a Case IH tractor. And an open invitation to every person in Sioux Falls, the surrounding area, and anyone just passing through:
You don’t watch the parade.
You are the parade.
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Come ride with us!
Four people built this. Their parents have been on that trailer. Their adult kids have danced on that dance floor. Three generations, one lighted dance floor, rolling through downtown Sioux Falls.
That’s it. That’s the whole thing.
Sioux Falls is lucky to have a lot of things. The HardOhns just happen to think it deserves a party tractor too — and they’ve got the paperwork, the scars, and the dance floor to prove it.
Hop on. The city looks different from up here.
Book your ride at sufutractor.com · 401 E. 8th Street · Sioux Falls, SD · Ages 21+
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