The Tractor that Brought Diesel Power to Mainstream Farming When International Harvester debuted its new Raymond Loewy-designed Letter Series tractors in 1939, it was one of their bigger advancements. The improvements came on just […] Jim Allen July 22, 2024 Diesel Tractors FEATURES
The Scout Series: International Harvester For much of its history in agriculture and commercial truck manufacturing, International Harvester had diesel options. The first was a gas-start diesel developed for tractors […] Jim Allen July 11, 2023 Diesel Cars Diesel Trucks Rides
The Best Diesel Engines: Top 10 Of All-Time The Most Revered Oil-Burners Ever Assembled From the farm to the highway, construction equipment to gen-sets, and emergency vehicles to the trucks we drive every […] Mike McGlothlin June 10, 2021 Diesel Engines Parts Rack
The 60 Year Demonstration 1961 International B-160 Diesel Demonstrator International was one of the first truck manufacturers to start pushing diesel engines in light and medium duty trucks. Back […] Jim Allen May 21, 2021 Diesel Trucks Vintage Diesels
1949 Sheppard SD-2 Classy Tractors With this, we will have covered three of the four Sheppard tractor models built from 1949 to 1956. We covered the SD-3 in […] Jim Allen May 12, 2021 Diesel Tractors Vintage Diesels
Truck and Tractor Pull Lewistown FFA A 14-Class Truck and Tractor Pull in the Land of Lincoln Perhaps no other form of motorsport events had been hit as hard as truck […] Mike McGlothlin February 04, 2021 Diesel Tractors EVENTS
1965 Cockshutt 1550 Wheatland 1965 Cockshutt 1550 Wheatland Even if we don’t know the term, we’ve all seen badge engineering at work. Take a vehicle platform of one brand […] Jim Allen February 02, 2021 Diesel Tractors Vintage Diesels
Scheid Diesel Extravaganza 2020 The Late-August Classic is Relocated And Rejuvenated At Wagler Motorsports Park When industry giants like Dan Scheid and Jeremy Wagler team up on something, you’re […] Mike McGlothlin January 26, 2021 EVENTS
Sheppard Tractors: One of Three 1949 Sheppard SD-1 Sheppard Tractors are among the rarest of the orphan tractors. We covered a ‘51 Sheppard SD-3 for you back in 2015 and […] Jim Allen January 03, 2021 Diesel Tractors Vintage Diesels
A New Breed 1965 Farmall 504 What International Harvester called the “New World of Power” launched them into their first line of six-cylinder tractors in 1958. These were […] Jim Allen January 24, 2020 Diesel Tractors Vintage Diesels
Tractor Talk: Gold Standard 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 […] Jim Allen February 14, 2017 Diesel Tractors FEATURES
Ford’s First Diesel Pickup Engine It was the 1970s and people were reeling from the shock of gas prices that had tripled in just a few short years. The effect […] Jim Allen April 17, 2016 Diesel Engines Ford
Cub Cadet 782D: Tractor Talk The Cub Cadet line of garden tractors debuted in 1960 as “little brothers” to International Harvester’s compact Farmall Cub series. Originally to be called Cubette—a […] Jim Allen April 10, 2016 Diesel Tractors Vintage Diesels
Hi-Crop Tractor: 1957 Oliver Super 77D Hi-Crop, High Clearance, High-Clear, HC… whatever name the manufacturer chose for them, tractors with extra clearance for taller crops have been part of the farming […] Jim Allen March 30, 2016 Diesel Tractors Vintage Diesels
Sheppard SD3: The Best Tractor You've Never Heard Of In the late ’40s and early ’50s, diesel-powered tractors were just starting to increase their market share against gasoline and distillate (kerosene) power tractors. It […] Jim Allen March 11, 2016 Diesel Tractors Vintage Diesels
1959 Porsche-Diesel Standard Model: The Schlepper Project Ferdinand Porsche (1875-1951) had his hands into just about everything with an engine. By the time he started his own engineering firm in 1931, Dr. […] Jim Allen February 27, 2016 Diesel Tractors Vintage Diesels
The First WD-40: 1935 McCormick-Deering WD-40 You’re forgiven if “WD-40” brought something else to mind. Before that incredibly useful product was invented, there was an equally useful product with the same […] Jim Allen February 11, 2016 Diesel Tractors
Tractor Talk: 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 their bigger advancements. The improvements came on just […] Jim Allen November 20, 2015 Diesel Tractors Vintage Diesels