Author: Don MacmillanPublisher: American Society of Agricultural & Biological Engineers
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Big Book of Tractors
Author: Heather AlexanderPublisher: DK Children
ISBN: 9780756632137
Category : Farm equipment
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Did you know . . . That the first tractors had metal wheels with no tyres? That a tractor can weigh as much as five elephants? That a tractor can pull as much as 500 horses can? Tractors are big and powerful! They can plough, lift, dig, mow and power through the biggest farms, the longest roads and your very own backyard. Find out everything you want to know about these amazing machines in theBig Book of Tractors.
Legendary John Deere Tractors
Author: Andrew MorlandPublisher: Voyageur Press (MN)
ISBN: 9781616739560
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
This book celebrates an icon of American agriculture and industry with more than 400 pictures of legendary John Deere machines from one of world’s most famous tractor photographers.
Designing the New Generation John Deere Tractors
Author: Merle MillerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
See for yourself how the lines on the drawing board turned into actual iron and rubber! This insider's account takes you behind the scenes and tells the history of how and why the "New Generation" program came into being. Retired John Deere engineer, Merle Miller, delivers the full and fascinating story of the 3010 and 4010 New Generation tractors.
John Deere Evolution: The Design and Engineering of an American Icon
Author: Lee KlancherPublisher:
ISBN: 9781642340082
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
This beautiful book is an encyclopedic, behind-the-scenes look at how the machines were designed and built containing examples of every model line built by John Deere since 1919. Matching the strong visuals is an in-depth history that includes interviews with the engineers, industrial designers, and other Deere & Co. people who designed, built, and sold the machines.
The Complete Book of Classic John Deere Tractors
Author: Don MacmillanPublisher: Motorbooks
ISBN: 0760366071
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
The Complete Book of Classic John Deere Tractors explores the range of iconic “green tractors” with which Illinois-based John Deere has become one of the world’s most recognizable brands. Part of Motorbooks’ Complete Book series, this fact-packed volume takes you through dozens of John Deere farm models, beginning with the 1892 Waterloo Boy and ending with the game-changing New Generation and Generation II lines. With selected text from The Bigger Book of John Deere by late legendary Deere historian Don Macmillan, this book details year-to-year model changes within each series and offers comprehensive specs charts compiled by Deere authority John Dietz. In addition to the Waterloo Boy, you’ll witness the entire 40-plus years of two-cylinder “Johnny Poppers,” from the 1924 Model D through the 830 Series models in 1960, and the styled tractors of the prewar and postwar years. Also featured heavily are the groundbreaking New Generation tractors launched to much fanfare in 1960 and their successors, the New Generation II lineup with their Sound-Gard cabs. Standard, row-crop, orchard, and even a selection of experimental models…they’re all here. In addition, you'll find coverage of John Deere’s rich international heritage, with tractors produced in Spain, Germany, and Australia. Illustrated with incredible color photography and period advertising, The Complete Book of Classic John Deere Tractors isan essential edition for the library of any Deere fanatic.
John Deere Farm Tractors
Author: Randy LeffingwellPublisher: Motorbooks International
ISBN: 9780879387556
Category : John Deere tractors
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Leffingwell combines interviews with famous Deere designers and newly discovered information on Deere tractors with 200 new, color photos of original and restored tractors from all over the US, to provide a unique history of America's favorite farm tractor. 250 photos and illus.
Author: Lorry DunningJohn Deere: A History of the Tractor
Author: Randy LeffingwellPublisher:
ISBN: 1610606515
Category : John Deere tractors
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
To farmers the world over, there's no tractor like a John Deere. The history of Deere's development of the farm tractor and its fight to be number one in the business is a fascinating tale - told here in complete detail through extensive research and interviews with the designers, engineers, dealers, and farms that made Deere famous. Author Randy Leffingwell traveled across the country photographing tractors from New England to California, bringing together hundreds of stunning color photos along with rare archival images. The full line of Deere tractors are presented, from early experimental models to the Waterloo Boy, the Model D, the Johnny Poppers, modern four- and six-cylinder models, and everything in between. Packed with colorful stories, anecdotes, and never-before-seen illustrations, John Deere is the ultimate tribute to the legendary American tractors.
Tractor Wars
Author: Neil DahlstromPublisher: BenBella Books
ISBN: 1637744986
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Mr. Dahlstrom...has written a superb history of the tractor and this long-forgotten period of capitalism in U.S. agriculture. We now know the whole story of when farming, business and the free-market economy diverged, divided and conquered." —Wall Street Journal Discover the untold story of the “tractor wars,” the twenty-year period that introduced power farming—the most fundamental change in world agriculture in hundreds of years. Before John Deere, Ford, and International Harvester became icons of American business, they were competitors in a forgotten battle for the farm. From 1908-1928, against the backdrop of a world war and economic depression, these brands were engaged in a race to introduce the tractor and revolutionize farming. By the turn of the twentieth century, four million people had left rural America and moved to cities, leaving the nation’s farms shorthanded for the work of plowing, planting, cultivating, harvesting, and threshing. That’s why the introduction of the tractor is an innovation story as essential as man’s landing on the moon or the advent of the internet—after all, with the tractor, a shrinking farm population could still feed a growing world. But getting the tractor from the boardroom to the drafting table, then from factory and the farm, was a technological and competitive battle that until now, has never been fully told. A researcher, historian, and writer, Neil Dahlstrom has spent decades in the corporate archives at John Deere. In Tractor Wars, Dahlstrom offers an insider’s view of a story that entwines a myriad of brands and characters, stakes and plots: the Reverend Daniel Hartsough, a pastor turned tractor designer; Alexander Legge, the eventual president of International Harvester, a former cowboy who took on Henry Ford; William Butterworth and the oft-at-odds leadership team at John Deere that partnered with the enigmatic Ford but planned for his ultimate failure. With all the bitterness and drama of the race between Ford, Dodge, and General Motors, Tractor Wars is the untold story of industry stalwarts and disruptors, inventors, and administrators racing to invent modern agriculture—a power farming revolution that would usher in a whole new world.
