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Jun/Jul 2008Subscribe NowEngine videos online! Check out the GEM video index on YouTube, the quickest way to find gas engine videos on the Internet. We’ve done the searching, all you have to do is the watching! Click below for GEM engine video index. |
History-making Farm MachinesREAR VIEW ORIGINAL FARMALLIf it isn't a McCormick-Deering, it isn't a Farmall. This slogan characterized the beginning of International Harvester's dominance over the all-purpose farm tractor field in the 1920's and 1930's. Eliminating the need for horses, even in row crops, was the concept behind the Farmall tractor first sold in 1924 and mass produced in 1925. This concept and the tractor itself was many years in developing, starting about 1915. In planning the Farmall, IH officials demanded that it be lightweight. It weighed about 3,300 pounds, in sharp contrast to the 21,700-pound Mogul in 1911. Above all, the Farmall had to be able to cultivate corn and other row crops and do belt work. The original Farmall was capable of pulling a plow with two 14-inch bottoms, was designed to meet the requirements of farms in the quarter-section c... 819 of 2996 characters shown.
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