Machinery Talk

[dmowitz]

Here is your opportunity to have your voice heard on what certainly has to be one of the more crucial questions facing mankind . . .what was the greatest tractor of all time?!

True, I jest.

But the topic weighs heavy on all our minds during those idle moments at the end of the day, or when talking to a neighbor over the fence or for small farm boys defending their turf on the playground.

I can recall, with some detail, the day my best friend in grade school pronounced that any tractor that wasn’t a Farmall 806 wasn’t worth spit.

I replied that anything that wasn’t Deere wasn’t worth what I pitched in the manure spreader the day before. A John Deere 4020 would wipe the field with a Farmall 806 any day.

Carl, a mutual friend overhearing this debate, was to quick correct us both with the fact that everyone knew the Minneapolis-Moline Five Star was the king of tractors.

The three of us wouldn’t talk to each other for a week!

So just for fun lets open this can of worms and see what comes out.

Click here to view the 32 selections I made to vie for the title of The Greatest Tractor of All Time.

These selections will be posted in NCAA-basketball-like-bracket form in the near future on Agriculture.com.

Please notice I left room for anyone to nominate tractors. And, just like the NCAA basketball tournament, we'll have a "play-in game." So, add your selection here for the tractor that's not already in the list to compete for the last slot in the bracket. 

Add your nomination, then we'll follow up with the full bracket later on. Let the debate begin!

Dave Mowitz

Editor, Ageless Iron Almanac

Machinery Director, Successful Farming Magazine