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Whether you're a farmer, or someone who loves machines, or someone interested in the history of agriculture, this book will give you a new perspective on the huge influence of the tractor on the culture of the American Farm, as well as the influence of farm practices on the tractor. This is the story of how farm mechanization lifted the burden of labor from human and animal power to tractors; from steam traction engines of the early 1880s to the articulated, four-wheel drive monsters with more than 500 horsepower, air conditioned cabs and onboard computers. Tractors are featured from John Deere, Case, International Harvester, Ford, Ferguson, Allis-Chalmers, Caterpillar, Minneapolis-Moline, Oliver, Steiger and others, with commentaries on each.