Who will have it?

DR Darren · Jan 23, 2009

I posted once before asking who had the oldest active tractor. Now i was thinking who will have the first gasoline or diesel tractor to hit 100 years old? that is including the production date of the tractor.

I know steam traction have the 100 year mark.

Anonymous-0 · Jan 23, 2009

That's an easy one; it would be Hart-Parr.

BLinWMI · Jan 23, 2009

Unless you count the Froelich, the forerunner to John Deere, made in 1892.

g mccool · Jan 23, 2009

Froelick was the first tractor. I don't remember the date but I think it was in the real late 1800s. Gerald

Anonymous-0 · Jan 23, 2009

Steam 1868, Froelich was gasoline, not first tractor.maybe first gasoline tractor.

john in la · Jan 24, 2009

While John Froelich invented; built and used the first gas tractor; would this not be considered a prototype because none of them were sold.

I think Hart-Parr was the first to build and sell a gas powered tractor.

Correct me if I am wrong.

fixerupper · Jan 24, 2009

Froelich takes the claim on the first gasoline,
(or maybe it wasn't gasoline but you get the idea) powered traction engine in 1892.

Hart and Paar got together in 1901 to form Hart Paar and coined the name 'tractor'.

rrlund · Jan 24, 2009

You're right. That Froelich could barely pull itself,let alone do any actual work. Hart Parr #3,built in 1903 is still going.It worked for 20 odd years on an Iowa farm and has been restored and is still being shown,but will be sent to the Smithsonian at the end of the tour.

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