100 Years of Vintage Farm Tractors : A Century of Tractor Tales and Heartwarming Family Farm Memories,9780896584624

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

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ISBN13: 9780896584624
ISBN10: 0896584623
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2000-07-01
Publisher(s): Motorbooks Intl
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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

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