Tag: tractors

Looking back into history, all tractor manufacturers had big hoopla introductions. J.I. Case was no exception and one of their biggest was, “Intro 70,” the […]

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 […]

1903 Augsburg DM 12 Diesel If you want to see the first compression ignition engine built by Rudolph Diesel, you have to go to Munich, […]

1969 MASSY-FERGUSON 1130 The early 1960s marked the beginning of the large scale application of turbocharging to diesels in the tractor world. Massey-Ferguson’s (MF) first […]

1972 FORD 8000 Ford Tractor Operations turned a major corner in 1968 when the new 8000 debuted. It replaced Ford’s First six-cylinder tractors, the 6000 […]

Farmland Rigs Nothing is more pleasing than finding an old tractor that can still run, and looks great while doing so. Most vintage tractors are […]

1956 Massey-Harris 555 The ’55 Diesel debuted in 1949 as the big diesel tractor in the Massey-Harris lineup. Despite some teething problems, it established a […]

International W-450 Out with the old and in with the new. You’ve heard that expression a million times. In the late 1950s, International Harvester was […]

1946 Oliver Cletrac BD Crawler Cletrac began in 1916 as the Cleveland Motor Plow Company with a three-wheeled tractor design. Before the patent was even […]

1989 WHITE AMERICAN 60 By the end of the 1980s, White Farm Equipment was in trouble. The company had begun in 1960, when White Motor […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Sled pulling is serious business in the Midwest. From local fairs to national-level events, some of the best pullers in the country call the Midwest […]

Canada isn’t generally known for her tractors, but one Canadian tractor manufacturer made a mark on the world: Cockshutt. The company started in 1882, when […]