Heritage Iron Issue #09 - Digital Copy

Heritage Iron Issue #09 - Digital Copy

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• FEATURING: International Harvester 1568: Under the hood was an IH-built V-8 diesel engine with a displacement of 550 cubic inches, cranking out 140+ PTO horsepower. This tractor had dual exhaust stacks that nearly screamed, "Look at me! I am a Muscle Tractor!" Feature tractor owner: Joel Jakobs - Milledgeville, IL. 1468 Farmall owner: Glenn Kreider - Greenville, IL.

• The New Generation of Tractors: Trials and Tribulations. As John Deere's D-Day in Dallas wound down, these tractors would now endure the true test of wide acceptance; that being when dealers and farmers put them to the test: 2010, 3010, 4010.

• Machinery Profile: Early No-Till Farming. 

• Hesston Model 4800: The BIG baler was introduced by Hesston Machine and Manufacturing Co. in 1976.

• Machinery Milestones: The tractor scene 30, 40, and 50 years ago.

• The Flight of the Fuel Tank: A brief history of tractor evolution in the Muscle Era. Even a tractor from the end of the 1950s changed dramatically from the tractors at the end of the Muscle Tractor Era in terms of not just scale but in form; a form that followed the functional requirements of a more power machine operating larger and more sophisticated implements.

• Museums: The Florida Agricultural Museum and a Few Historic Homes: Stetson Mansion and DeBary Hall.