Diesel Tractors

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

BETTER FARMING WITH ELECTRICITY International Harvester in the early 1950s was innovative and unafraid to market new things. One of those things was called Electrall […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

The 1953-56 Case 500 Diesel had been a success and put J.I. Case’s firmly into the diesel tractor market. That engine had started development in […]