Tag: row crop

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 […]

1962 FORD 2000 The early 1960s brought a lot of changes to the worldwide Ford ag equipment manufacturing empire. Ford announced a new organization, Ford […]

1967 Minneapolis-Moline G1000 Row Crop By the mid-1960s, Minneapolis-Moline had a long history of success behind it, but in all that history, they had not […]

CAST 435L Tractor When you think of products from Italy, tractors probably don’t immediately come to mind, yet over the years some of the most […]

Euclid TC-12 Dozer Companies take a big risk when they introduce something radically different than the norm. When the historical smoke clears, which might be […]

BIG BUD ‘NUFF SAID! We’ve talked a lot over the years about how the big, high-powered tractors evolved. Nowhere were they needed more than in […]

1970 MASSEY FERGUSON 1080 In the 1950s, Massey-Ferguson had a line of tractors that were near the top of the quality and performance curve. Massey-Ferguson […]

WALKING TALL 1965 FARMALL 806 FWA When it debuted for 1963, the Farmall 806 was one of International Harvester’s high points. The company was still […]

1969 FORD 5002 ROW CROP Prior to 1961, Ford’s worldwide agricultural engineering, marketing and production operations were scattered all over the globe. That year, the […]

1963 OLIVER 1600B For the 1963 model year, Oliver fleshed out its modernized and restyled lineup by adding the 1600. It replaced the 880 model […]

 1958 INTERNATIONAL W-450D In 1958, International Harvester heralded a big update of its tractor line with the new, restyled hundred series. While there were major […]

JOHNNY POPS NO MORE 1961 JOHN DEERE 4010 John Deere completely and utterly changed its tractor model lines for the 1961 model year. Gone were […]

1956 COCKSHUTT BLACK HAWK 40PD By the middle part of the 1950s, Cockshutt Farm Equipment, of Brantford, Ontario, Canada, was feeling the pain of being […]

1999 Massey Ferguson 271 In every walk of life there are people who work in the background and just get stuff done. Nothing about them […]

Still Exceeding Design Specifications at 81 Years Old Back in the November 2015 Tractor Talk we showed you a 1935 McCormick-Deering WD-40. The WD-40 has […]

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 […]

You’d be forgiven if you think that Cummins swaps are something new and confined to the light truck realm. Not so, diesel heads, and here […]

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 […]