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Tom. To the best of my knowledge, the first JD diesel farm tractor came on the scene around 1955-56 and it wasn't very long before that that they still had iron wheels.
On the other issue, I have a friend who is now in his late 40's and he was raised by his grandparents in the south in a sharecropper’s circumstance. So he was a kid in the mid 50's and into the 60's. When he left the farm his grandpa was still using mules. He was raised on hard work and you can still see it when you look at him today. If he wanted meat for supper, he had to go out and shoot small game such as squirrels and rabbits. I don't think he ever used mechanized farm equipment, as we know it today.
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Model "70" 1953-1956
The 70 arrived a year after the 50 and 60, with many of the same features. Later it earned two distinctions all its own, and shared others with its year-older brothers.
Originally available with gasoline, "all fuel", or LP-gas engine, it later offered a diesel option. The 70 thus becaume the first John Deere diesel row-crop tractor.
In its Nebraska test, the 70 Diesel set a new fuel economy record, bettering all previously tested row-crop tractors. In 1954, the 50,60, and 70 became the first row-crop tractors equipped with optional factory-installed power steering. John Deere engineers achieved this industry first with a system that used built-in hydraulics to control the steering column. This differed from "add-on" systems utilizing externally mounted motors on steering shafts or hydraulic cylinders hooked up to tie rods.
Improvements in equipment control paralleled improvements in tractor power and performance. Case in point: The 801 Hitch, an early weight-transfer hitch that transformed implement draft resistance into downward pressure on tractor drive wheels. It was introduced on 50, 60 and 70 tractors.
In addition to the row-crop model, the 70 was available as a somewhat unusual standard tractor. More accurately, it was a wheatland tractor built on a row-crop chassis. Fenders and front axle were all that distinguished it from the row-crop model.
The 70 Diesel was rated at 34.25 drawbar hp and 43.77 belt hp. Nebraska Test No. 528 (1954); also No. 493, No. 506 and No. 514 (1953).
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Kay. Great info! I am interested for other reasons. My uncle aquired a green diesel in the mid to late fifties and I was trying to figure out which model it might have been. Do you recall which models used a gasoline engine to start the diesel and an electric motor to start the gas engine?
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By early you must mean prior to WW II. We had a fuel tank in the yard that fed the tractors, the chevy pick-up and the Buick grandpa drove to church on Sunday. So what is farm fuel?
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The only reference I have found to multi-fuel engines is the link in the box above. The model 70 Deere had an optional engine that could run on LP or Gas. That is not so different from some automobiles today. Is it possible that the difference between farm fuel and gasoline was its taxable status similar to our on road/off road price structure today for diesel?
Peters: do you remember seeing two seperate fuel tanks on those old tractors?
My recollection of the family farm in the early fifties has one elevated fuel tank that fed three tractors, a JD "A", a JD "B" and a Case It also fed the pick-up we drove to the creamery every morning and a big old 53'ish Buick. But like Tom says, I was pretty young and this memory could be flawed.
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I can testify to the instability of the "B" models. I flipped one when I was five years old. I didn't get dinner that night and couldn't sit for a couple of days. Glad to finally know it wasn't entirely my fault.
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