Saturday, August 22, 2015
Greensburg
The featured tractor of this years show is International Harvester
(Farmall) tractors and Cub Cadet garden tractors
as well as IH gas engines.
Cub Cadets: 482, 582, 682 and 782.
Cub Cadets: 482, 582, 682 and 782.
Boys with too much time on their hands.
Red tractors and green tractors.
His and Hers.
Some yellow tractors.
1922 Farmall Bombshell
Steam baling hay.
This was the steam playground.
Russell & Co., Builders
Massillon, Ohio
Can crushing
and rope making.
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A family was grinding corn into corn meal.
Those walking by received a small bag of cornmeal.
Plus a recipe for cornbread.
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A windmill, a solar panel and the blue things
were twisting around in the breeze.
Examples of "renewable energy."
Did you know....
All Farmall tractors were painted a deep blue-grey until mid-1936. The wheels were most often red.
In mid-1936, a decision was made to change the entire tractor to a new color, "Farmall Red." Around this time, many tractor manufacturers began using bright, distinctive colors for branding (Allis-Chalmers orange, for example). A farmer could look out across the fields and see his neighbor's tractor from a great distance and know what make it was. This provided advertising in the intensely competitive tractor market.
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# posted by Martha @ 7:56 PM 
