Tractor Trivia

[shopteacher]

Can anyone tell me the name of the first company that begun for the sole purpose of building tractors.  They were also the first to begin using the term tractor rather than gasoline traction engine.

[Dom]

International Harvester for my father.

Ji Case for me.

[Tom]

"The Froelich tractor, forerunner of the later Waterloo Boy tractor, is considered by many to be the first successful gasoline tractor known."

http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bltractor.htm

Hart-Parr is also credited with coining the word "tractor" for machines that had previously been called gas traction engines. The firm's first tractor effort, Hart-Parr No.1, was made in 1901."
 (same article)  

[shopteacher]

You got it Tom, Hart-Parr.  Man you must know your tractors.
How bout this.  What's a Johnny Popper?

[Tom]

    All of the John Deere two-cylinder Tractors from the original Model D in 1924, to the last series in 1958/1960 were called "Johnny Poppers" .......................

  
http://www.retiredtractors.com/Popper/

We have two families down the road with those little allis chalmers rear engined antique tractors trying to sell them.  Wish I had the money. :D
 

[Ed_K]

 2cyl John Deere, ( A B G M R I forget the rest).

[SwampDonkey]

Alot of folks around here are after the old Farmall tractors. Alot of folks collect them and rebuilt'm. My father was a John Deere man. We had one International, the 706 model, which never had good brakes and when parked in gear it would roll on any kind of a hill. ;)

[Danny_S]

Does this look familiar Swamp??  

[SwampDonkey]

Ours was a later model 706 from the 70's. Had a cab and power steering and  front-end of modern tractors. Four forward, 1 reverse gears, a torque arm and six hydrolic couplers. I think it was the first tractor father bought in my time. Dunno what he used before that, since he farmed for over 40 years. Used to drive an old potato truck for dating :D :D :D

[redpowerd]

tom is all up on all we know ;D

[Bruce_A]

What kind of money are they asking for he Allis-Chalmer G's.

[ksu_chainsaw]

We still run a 706 diesel that was made in '68, the same year dad graduated from hich school.  It wont stay in gear anymore, and the TA went out of it, but it has been one of the more reliable tractors that we have had.  I still like our old VAC's that we have sitting out in the fencerow, waiting for a slow winter to be fixed up.  We also have a 450 NF waiting for an engine rebuild, just have to find the time.

charles

[iain]

who was the best tractor saleman of all time?
bearing in mind the willingness of farmers to throw money at some thing new ;D

[slowzuki]

Many a small working farm in New Brunswick uses tractors from the 60's!  My buddies farm uses Ford 3000's and 6000's from about 1965.  My neighbour with modern equipment has tractors from the late 70's early 80's  :D :D

[Tom]

One G is 3 thousand and the other 3500

[ronwood]

Tom,

My dad has one of the little G. Uses around the farm in the garden. He been going to sales here in Mo. to find another. I think that they were going for arond $2000. and in need of repair.

Ron

[Tom]

Both of these are working gardens.  The owners are getting old :D

[Weekend_Sawyer]

 I am partial to the letter series Farmalls. I have atleast one of each except for a C and my A is a Super A but that still counts in my book. They are not all in working condition, yet, and my B is more of a rusty lump than a tractor but I love to tinker and they are perfect for that.

[Dom]

Theres a old John deere up the hill from where I live that my father is waiting to come for sale. I only saw it run once, it was used to plow a few rows. The rest of the time it sits in a barn. I don't know what model it is, but I think its a old twin cylinder from the 40's.

[ScottAR]

Here's one for you guys.  What was the first John Deere model introduced as part of the "new generation" series and what year was it introduced?  

Enjoy...

[Weekend_Sawyer]

I beleive it was the 1010 in 1960, I had a 63' 1010 not a bad tractor but impossible to fix the brakes!

[beenthere]

The 3010 and 4010 were 'all new' tractors announced in 1960. The site I picked this info up from is

http://www.antiquetractors.com/Research/New-Generation/The_New_Generation_Page.htm

Mention is made of the 1010 and the 2010 as well.

My father worked for Deere ('36 - '76) and participated in the design and testing of the new 4 and 6 cyl diesels. They tested them on combines in the late 50's, following the wheat harvest from Texas to Canada (my little sister was born the following May, after Dad was out West in the wheat fields that previous wheat season -- Hmmm?). The engines would be run all day, and be torn down at night. By morning, the combines had to be ready to run, regardless (either with a replacement engine or one that was back together and ready to go).  They were pretty successful keeping the new engine design under wraps, as I remember.  The 4020 remains a classic still today, with high value and worthy of overhaul investment money. (Dad was very involved in the design, testing, and production of the first Deere diesel, the Model R, which was announced in 1949). He was hired by Deere because he had a Diesel course in college (Iowa State).

[ScottAR]

Close but not it...

Keep tryin fellas...

[beenthere]

In 1959 (abouts) Deere came out with the 8010, which was an articulated tractor of good size. That might be what you are referring to, but it didn't have a Deere engine in it. It weighed about 20k #'s.  

[ScottAR]

Ding ding ding!!!  We have a winner!   The 8010 was introduced in 1959.  If I remember, it had an 8v71 Detroit.  
They had some sort of clutch/transmission problems and were all repurchased by Deere and updated as 8020s.  It was built at the Deere plant unlike the WA tractors that were built by Wagner in Oregon.