Farmall Regular
row crop tractor
The Farmall Regular, or just the Farmall, was the first in the Farmall line of general-use row-crop tractors manufactured by International Harvester. The Regular was the first affordable tractor that could be used for plowing, stationary threshing, or cultivating. For most of its product life it was marketed as the "Farmall," with the "Regular" added when the Farmall F-20 and F-30 appeared as its successors. More than 134,000 were sold from 1924 to 1931.
Development
International Harvester started development of a multi-purpose machine in 1910, confronting the difficulty of designing a machine that could do heavy work like plowing with the careful, precision task of row-crop cultivation. Until this time, cultivation was done by hand or with horses. Tractors were large affairs whose bulk could crush the crops, or which made it hard to see what was being done. The Farmall project was led by International Harvester Assistant Chief Engineer Bert R. Benjamin, who was the tractor's principal advocate in the company. The innovations pursued in the Farmall included making the front section of the tractor as narrow as possible, placing the front wheels close together in front. This would allow the front wheels to run in a furrow, and the adjustable rear wheels to ride in the next furrows out.
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