Crawling Ollie
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 issued ...
Diesel Tractors
THE FIRST TURBO TRACTOR ALLIS-CHALMERS D-19
The turbo diesel is so commonplace today that naturally aspirated diesels stand out. Go back nearly 60 years and the opposite was true.In 1961, turbocharging ...
SPLIT PERSONALITY
The Massey-Ferguson 97 & Minneapolis-Moline 706
Badge engineering is nothing new. Tractor companies did it as far back as the first decade of the 20th centu...
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The Mighty Little Caterpillar D2
A Tale of Two D2s
In the early days of motorized farming, crawler tractors had a big part to play in some parts of the country. Crawlers could put more power in...
Canadian Cold Warrior
Royal Canadian Air Force Cockshutt 40D Tug
Buy from the home teams,” has long been the a military priority for many countries around the world when procuring eq...
TRACTOR TALK
HERE’S THE BEEF! 1952 MASSEY HARRIS 55 DIESEL
Massey-Harris tractors had a solid reputation north and south of the border when they debuted a big diesel tracto...
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ELECTRALL
BETTER FARMING WITH ELECTRICITY
International Harvester in the early 1950s was innovative and unafraid to market new things. One of those things was called Ele...
A WITTE PAIR
1936 AND 1946 WITTE DIESELECTRICS
Witte, pronounced “Witty,” is a storied name, in both the diesel and gas engine realms. The origins of the Missouri based com...