Sampson, The World’s Strongest “GP”
Corwin Groth has several friends who are antique tractor pullers. So when the Eldridge, Iowa man known as “Cork” to his friends saw the...
March 2020
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February 2020
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The Closest Thing to a Model “Y” You Will Find
When Jack Kreeger of Omaha, Nebraska attended antique tractor shows in the early 1980s with his collection of “L” series tractors, he would display...
The Styled “A” Low Seat Standard
Most of us have probably hatched some idea in our brains about building a tractor that Deere never did. Perhaps you wanted to put...
January 2020
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The Smallest Combines of the 1960s.
This article isn't strictly John Deere but it does give comparisons to Deere's smallest self propelled combine, the model 40.
Although a few were produced earlier,...
Deere 400 goes “Hmmmmmmmmm”.
Some of you are probably old enough to remember the old Mazda car commercials from the 1970s and ’80s. At that time, Mazda was...
December 2019
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A Little History on the Best Selling Combine.
The chances are you have either used a John Deere 6600, or know someone who has.
The John Deere Speedster
I don’t know when exactly the idea was hatched for this project, but it had to be at least 15 years ago. I know...
The Final Sales Presentation
This month Mr. Kirby concludes his speech with a few more shots at the competition's transmissions and threepoint systems. There is also a paragraph...
1958 Sales Presentation Part 5
What’s a whoop-to-do lever?
This month you will find out why Mr. Kirby calls torque amplifiers whoop te-do-levers. This shouldn't be a surprise to anyone...
November 2019
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1958 Sales Presentation part 4
Testing torque
Get out your slide rules because you’re going to learn all about torque and how they used to test it. You’ll also...
1958 Sales Presentation Part 3
When Mr. Kirby asked the dealers if they can remember a John Deere tractor without overhead valves, a lot of them were probably saying...
