Wheatland tractors

johninmn · Dec 29, 2011

Was at a place recently that had a 856 and 1456 both wheatland models. I was told these are both pretty rare any truth to that?

rustyfarmall · Dec 29, 2011

(quoted from post at 09:08:47 12/29/11) Was at a place recently that had a 856 and 1456 both wheatland models. I was told these are both pretty rare any truth to that?

Depends on what part of the U.S. you are in. Don't see too many here in Iowa, but in the wheat producing states the row crop versions would be scarce.

mkirsch · Dec 29, 2011

Even in the grand scheme of things, they're pretty rare.

By the time of the 56 series, you could do anything with a row crop tractor that a wheatland could do, and a whole lot more. Even the crude cabs of the time protected the operator from more dust than the round fenders ever could. Wheatland style tractors were a concept whose time had passed by then.

IH only offered Wheatland tractors because they perceived a resistance to change among their customers. They figured going from an open WD9 to an 806 row crop with air conditioned cab was more of a jump than some farmers would be willing to make, so they put round fenders on the 806 so it would look more like their familiar old WD9.

WOpp · Dec 29, 2011

The train of thought at that time was why spend the extra money on 3pt hitch and pto, quite a number of tractors here in wheat country were sold what we called bare back. My dad thought it was crazy to have to walk half way to the middle of tractor to get on. Their are still a few guys farming with them around here.

CNKS · Dec 30, 2011

In round numbers, 27000 Farmall 856's. 2200 Internationals. 5500 1456 Farmalls, 296 Internationals. International means wheatland and industrial (if any). Data according to serial numbers in Ken Updikes data book.

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