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A walk through tractor history

Jeff Caldwell Jeff Caldwell 01/25/2013 @ 10:36am Multimedia Editor for Agriculture.com and Successful Farming magazine.

It's winter, which means it's the heart of farm show season in the U.S., a time when manufacturers roll out the latest new machinery and technology to help farmers get the job done in the field. That makes it a great time to look back on some of the forebearers of today's tractors, if for anything, to see just how far the industry's come in the last century or so. Step back in time and check out these classics from generations past.

Oldest tractors in existence

  

Canadian horsepower

  

Lesser-known classics
 

 

Steel-wheeled beauties

  

Department-store tractors
 

Foreign horsepower

  

Canada's Cockshutts

  

Gibson's grand horses
 

Wide world of crawlers

  

Classics for lawn & garden

  

When tractors went weird
 

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