Ahhh – nothing like the excitement of watching freshly manufactured equipment being whisked to the dealer for sale to its very first happy owner. But wait – I don’t think tractors look like this anymore.
True, time has marched on. But this is one of those sights explained by the Indiana State Fair getting underway. Our State Fair always has a large contingent of antique and classic farm equipment on display (one of my favorite attractions).
Although I did not get it in the picture, at least one of our readers will be happy to know that these tractors were getting pulled to their destination by another International ( the road-going kind). If it had been red instead of blue, I might have tried harder for a picture of the full unit. But for you Binder partisans, at least it wasn’t green.
Oh, bestill my heart!
Awesome!
A Farmall H; the tractor I probably spent more wheel time on than any other:
https://www.curbsideclassic.com/auto-biography/tractor-driving-maniac-auto-biography-part-6/
And at the time, that new International with power steering might have been a ’61 Cadillac, even if it didn’t have A/C.
Although I learned to drive on my uncle’s two-bottom Ford and three-bottom Minnie-Mo, I designed both agricultural and recreational equipment for John Deere, so I bleed yellow and green. There is only one way to do things at Deere-the right way. It was a pleasure working for them.
I hope you have protection from the red hailstorm you could face with all that green love…
Around here, we get a lot of older Farmalls and older Fords and such, but the Case-Internationals seem to sit on the dealer lot. Same dealer sells New Holland, and these get sold in various sizes, but there’s lots more green tractors in the fields than other colors. (The Blue/Red dealer doesn’t have a great reputation, and in my experience has the reputation it deserves.) There’s one huge ranch that goes yellow, but they’re rubber belted Caterpillar Challengers.
We’re green on the mini-ranch–compact ute and the garden/mower.
Heh, I guess I see `vintage’ tractors all the time. This is (still) the usual tractor configuration here.