Contents Foreword Traction Innovation Introduction Farm Boy Geniuses
Steiger Industrial Tractors 9 Steiger Series IV Tractors 11 Saving the Best for Last: 1982–1984 Steiger 1000 Series Tractors One Turn-of-the-Century Traction 13 Steiger Custom Builds International Harvester’s Early Steiger Toy Replicas Four-Wheel-Drive Development 16 Better Red than Dead: 1985–1986 Two 1950–1969: A Powerful Drive 23 Four 1970–1984: The Red Revolution The First Steiger Tractors 29 International MFD Tractors 1970–1980 Farmall 560 Diesel Post-Factory Turbocharger Kit 36 J. I. Case Four-Wheel-Drive Tractors: 1970–1985 International MFD Tractors 1948–1969 40 Steiger-Built International Tractors IH 4300 Tractors 48 International 2+2 The Hough Connection 49 International MFD Tractors 1981–1984 4100 Series 56 Super 70 Series Tractors 1964–1969: J. I. Case Four-Wheel Drive 66 Tenneco Purchase of IH Four-Wheel-Drive Systems Explained 74 The Steiger Barn Builds 84
Three 1969–1986: The Steiger Age Steiger Series I Tractors Major-League Moves: 1974–1975 Steiger Series II Tractors Steiger Experimental Machines Turbulent Growth: 1976–1983 Steiger Series III Tractors Steiger PT and PTA Tractors
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Five 1960–1985: Harvester 4WD Abroad
German IH 4WD Tractors 95 British IH 4WD Tractors 106 Australian IH 4WD Tractors 112 120 Six 1986–1994: Powering Out of Hard Times 126 Case IH 9100 Series: 1986–1989 134 Magnum MFD Tractors 140 Case IH 9200 Series: 1990–1995 150
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Seven 1995–2006: Harvesting Heritage
Steiger 9300 Series The Quadtrac Quadtracs in the UK Steiger STX Series I
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Epilogue Building for the Future Appendix Red 4WD Tractors Model List Acknowledgments Index
Eight 2006–2017: Steiger in the Twenty-First Century 341
Steiger STX Series II South to the Pole Steiger Tier 4A Quadtrac Levels the Field Cutting-Edge Steiger The Optum Farming the Wilds of Western Australia Case IH Autonomous Tractors
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