I'm a retired farmer and I restore Oliver & Hart Parr. I am from Aitkin , Mn and I found out that fall that Minneapolis Moline where the original testing farm is located. All Minneapolis Moline tractors where here for all the testing of the different models. This farm is still there, and at one time there was over 200 Minneapolis Molines . The farm is still there and there is about 80 some tractors still sitting untouched. The farm is located north of the twin cities 180 miles by wahkon, Mn.
My Grandfather used to call his Minneapolis- Moline the "Freight train" for the field. All motor and a little bit of tractor thrown in for good measure.
Those huge slow turning engines date back to the Twin City days. One was used by a municipality near Dodge City Ks to pump water and generate electricity for the entire town. Was not unusual to find a natural gas deposit to run these monsters on.
My granddad started out as a BF Avery tractor dealer and became a Minneapolis Moline dealer due to the MM buyout of Avery in 1952 but he couldn't compete with John Deere and IHC SO HE quit them in 1956 MM just wasn't geared toward demand of cotton and row crop farming in the upper mid south east Arkansas and north Mississippi west Tennessee
White Motor company destroyed MM, AND OLIVER TRACTOR COMPANIES BASICALLY JUST FOR THEIR PATENTS AND LICENSES. Fyi avery was bought out because MM wanted to manufacture and sell a line of smaller tractors we had an Avery model V that was built in Louisville Kentucky as was the IHC A,s, B,s and Cubs those tractor were built to appeal to the small tobacco farms and truck farms in the east central US.
We did as well, here in SE Texas Uncle had 4 G1000's on propane, 2 Vista. Often wonder what happened to them. My Granddad and I farmed with IH and Case
I had a G1000 in Australia. I love that tractor. I miss farming to now I'm to old and I sold up.
I'm a retired farmer and I restore Oliver & Hart Parr.
I am from Aitkin , Mn and I found out that fall that Minneapolis Moline where the original testing farm is located.
All Minneapolis Moline tractors where here for all the testing of the different models.
This farm is still there, and at one time there was over 200 Minneapolis Molines .
The farm is still there and there is about 80 some tractors still sitting untouched.
The farm is located north of the twin cities 180 miles by wahkon, Mn.
My dad did the R&D testing on that tractor and was his last job before he retired from Moline in 1975..
My Grandfather used to call his Minneapolis- Moline the "Freight train" for the field. All motor and a little bit of tractor thrown in for good measure.
We had a G1000 great tractor except we managed to crack all three blocks at different times. Scapped it after the third block cracked.
The toy is an Ertl toy modified, not a Gilbert Berg toy, but still someone did a very nice job on it
Good job and good video. Great tractor
I seen a nice Moline over the weekend in Mid Michigan area and I’ve been intrigued ever since. Great video.
Those huge slow turning engines date back to the Twin City days. One was used by a municipality near Dodge City Ks to pump water and generate electricity for the entire town. Was not unusual to find a natural gas deposit to run these monsters on.
Love it!! Keep up the good work
My granddad started out as a BF Avery tractor dealer and became a Minneapolis Moline dealer due to the MM buyout of Avery in 1952 but he couldn't compete with John Deere and IHC SO HE quit them in 1956 MM just wasn't geared toward demand of cotton and row crop farming in the upper mid south east Arkansas and north Mississippi west Tennessee
White Motor company destroyed MM, AND OLIVER TRACTOR COMPANIES BASICALLY JUST FOR THEIR PATENTS AND LICENSES.
Fyi avery was bought out because MM wanted to manufacture and sell a line of smaller tractors we had an Avery model V that was built in Louisville Kentucky as was the IHC A,s, B,s and Cubs those tractor were built to appeal to the small tobacco farms and truck farms in the east central US.
lets see some of those Dodge truck!
My dad had a huge MM engine on propane he used to water 💧 his rice crop
We did as well, here in SE Texas
Uncle had 4 G1000's on propane, 2 Vista. Often wonder what happened to them.
My Granddad and I farmed with IH and Case
Iam looking for a Vista
MM long life engines. HD800 only would have burned lp or natural gas from factory..