For the Love of Tractors

Jason Shireman

Farming, toy tractors, real tractors, classic tractors, and anything farm or tractor related. Let's talk tractors ya'll!

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For the Love of Tractors

Episodes (36)

Apr 14th Row-Crop 4WD’s Odd Genius: The International Harvester 2+2 Story
Jul 6, 2025 An Interview with Doug Simon of Ertl
Mar 5, 2025 Is Lafayette now the Big Show?

For the Love of Tractors

Apr 14, 2026
20 minutes
18 MB

This episode tells the story of International Harvester’s 2+2 tractors as an engineering and market experiment: a four-wheel-drive row-crop machine that tried to merge two worlds—classic row-crop visibility and maneuverability with the traction and flotation of powered front wheels. That core idea is repeatedly documented in period marketing/advertising artifacts preserved in archives, and it is echoed in later technical histories and community experience. Primary and archival sources Wisconsin Historical Society catalog record for an IH 2+2 brochure spread (“Introducing a Bold New Design in Row Crop Tractors” appears as brochure title metadata) and access...

For the Love of Tractors

Row-Crop 4WD’s Odd Genius: The International Harvester 2+2 Story

Jason Shireman

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