Harvest has the Hoksey crew running on fumes and fighting old combines, so naturally we’re talking tractors. Nicolas, Kent, and Judd dig into how John Deere, Case IH, Allis-Chalmers, Oliver, and Ford got where they are, why farmers stay loyal to one color, and what right to repair means today.
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Chapters:
0:00 Long Harvest Hours and Grumpy Crew
4:00 Right to Repair and John Deere
7:00 Coffee Time Intro with Jud McCoy
10:00 Who Owns Which Tractor Brands
14:00 Growing Up in John Deere Country
16:00 Buying Reliability
22:00 International Harvester, Case and New Holland History
26:00 Early Tractor Makers and the Railroads
28:00 Planned Obsolescence and Manufacturing
32:00 Family Tractor Brands and Loyalty
40:00 Companies Moving Production to Mexico
42:00 John Deere and the 1837 Plow
46:00 Consolidation and Capitalism
50:00 The First Tractor from Charles City, Iowa
52:00 Inventors vs Money Makers
56:00 Wrap Up
