Jim Allen

The 1953-56 Case 500 Diesel had been a success and put J.I. Case’s firmly into the diesel tractor market. That engine had started development in […]

In a world where daily-driven diesel pickups can turn 8-second quarter-miles one day and move houses the next, it’s easy to forget that the diesel […]

1967 Case 1200 Traction King In the tractor horsepower race of the 1960s, all the manufacturers did their best conjuring to produce an affordable 100-plus […]

The Big Cat’s Ninth Life 1987 Steiger Panther 1000 The 1980s are not pleasantly remembered by most in agricultural manufacturing. Things took a downturn in […]

A Student-Built Cummins Nears 1,000 HP We’ve been following the University of Northwestern Ohio Diesel Club’s Cummins-powered pulling truck since 2011, and we’ve been pleased […]

Big Blue The First: Ford 6000 As the 1950s came to a close, Ford’s investment in the manufacture of agricultural equipment worldwide was bigger than […]

1955 Case 400D: Case Compact Power Sometimes big ideas come in smaller packages. Case in point: the 400 Series Case tractors that debuted for 1955. […]

1957 Oliver Super 77 Hi-Crop: Ollie With A Lift Hi-Crop, High Clearance, High-Clear, HC… whatever name the manufacturer chose for them, tractors with extra clearance […]

Cub Cadet 782D: Little Tractor, Big Power The Cub Cadet line of garden tractors debuted in 1960 as “little brothers” to International Harvester’s compact Farmall […]

Say “Oldsmobile diesel” and most people think of the trouble-prone 350-cid (5.7 liter) V-8 that plagued GM’s full-size cars in the late 1970s and early […]

Almost from the beginning of the farm tractor, farmers and engineers fooled around with coupling two tractors together to put more power to the ground. […]

International Harvester had a long history selling agricultural products in Great Britain going back to 1906. Until 1923, all IH product was American made and […]

1941 Farmall MD Diesel: First Of The Breed When International Harvester debuted its new Raymond Loewy-designed Letter Series tractors in 1939, it was one of […]

When Klockner-Humboldt-Deutz (KHD) took over the ag side of Allis Chalmers in 1985, the only part of the old tractor lineup they wanted to keep […]

The start of the ‘60s was when the passenger car horsepower races got hot and heavy, but not many car guys know the same thing […]

Henry Ford would take a second helping of milestone pie in 1927 when his company introduced the Model A for 1928. The new car was […]

I’ve been asked where all the info comes from for Tractor Talk. Much comes from the owners of the tractors you see, many of whom […]

Well, it’s not a diesel, but it runs on fuel oil. Kerosene to be exact. Kerosene became a popular fuel for early tractors because it […]

The 1970 Farmall 826 Gold Demonstrator Upgrade or die was the watchphrase of tractor manufacturing in the 1960s. Farming was evolving rapidly and tractors were […]

Steiger Tractor Company’s 1986 Chapter 11 bankruptcy attracted the attention of Tenneco, the parent company of the newly formed Case International. Steiger’s Fargo, North Dakota, […]