100 Years of Vintage Farm Tractors : A Century of Tractor Tales and Heartwarming Family Farm Memories

by Dregni, Michael; Jager, Ronald; Welsch, Roger

• ISBN13: 9780896584624
• ISBN10: 0896584623
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-07-01
• Publisher: Motorbooks Intl

Summary

Devoted to die-hard tractor fans, this illustrated volume includes stories about horse versus tractor farming, faith in machinery, a farmwife's view of tractors, tractors as "man things", and homemade tractors. 100 color photos.

Table of Contents

Foreword	9	(6)
Roger Welsch
Introduction 100 Years of Vintage Farm Tractors: A Love Story	15	(4)
The Coming of the Iron Horse	19	(22)
Working with Horses	21	(8)
Ronald Jager
Allis-Chalmers and the Holy Grail	29	(12)
Justin Isherwood
Home-Brewed Mechanical Mules	41	(14)
Iron	43	(6)
Bruce Bair
Homemade Tractor	49	(6)
Jerry Apps
Milestone Tractors	55	(16)
Caterpillar Hall of Fame	57	(4)
Bob Feller
Old Tractors Still Going Strong	61	(10)
Frank Lessiter
The Golden Days of Harvest Time	71	(26)
The Harvest	73	(14)
Jerry L. Twedt
Rites of Passage	87	(10)
Ben Logan
Sold on Tractors	97	(24)
I'm a Natural Born Salesman	99	(16)
William Hazlett Upson
Another Dream Fulfilled	115	(6)
Patricia Penton Leimbach
The Glory and Misery of Driving Tractor	121	(12)
The Lowly Implement Seat: A Cinderella Story	123	(4)
Orlan Skare
Man Things	127	(6)
Lauran Paine Jr.
The Allure of Old Iron	133	(20)
The Virgin on the Farmall---The Venus in the Chevy	135	(12)
Bill Holm
Romancing the Rust: Roger's Metaphysical Examination into the Whys and Wherefores of Tractor Restoration	147	(6)
Roger Welsch
Epilogue History in the Barn	153