Iconic TRACTORS from 1972 

I graduated from HS in 72. It was a great year for tractors. Farmers could still afford to actually own one. No computers or crazy electronics. My favorite was the 6030 Deere. Second place would be the Allis 200. Both were great. Low cost horsepower. Farmer friendly.

Wow, just amazing that there was such an amazing diversity of tractor brands back then! I think that competitiveness helped improve product and keep prices lower!

Boy that big IH 4WD looked like a beast. Sure miss the days of sitting up in the cab of our Turbo IH 1206, disking all day long, listening to college football on Saturday AM radio. Turning that soil over, watching the smoke roll out of the stack, those were the days!

My uncle had 2 Ford 9600s (among other Fords) in his large produce operation. He bought them new and ran them well into the 1990s until he retired. I spent many hours running them, as well as our own A-C equipment when I was coming up.

Glad to see the IH 4166 on here, I put a lot of hours on one of those, started running it when I was 11, I couldn't push the clutch in on it, so dad would get me moving and jump off. That tractor was workhorse. Those were the days, lots of memories.

For me, hands down #1 is the Ford 9600. Dad bought one in '74 or '75. Pulled a Ford (Pittsburgh) 5-16 model 142 plow & 20' model 230 disc. Grew up running that beast for more hours than I count. Loved that machine despite that the AC never worked for more than a month after the first year. Dad had it repaired at least 2 times; never lasted. My #2 would be a tie between Case 2470 (area farmer had 1; I always thought it was cool) and similar design IH 4166. Thanks for the memories, Jason. Keep 'em coming.

I'm really enjoying all of these older equipment videos. I remember when I was a boy a farm near us had a Ford 8000. It had no cab but I thought it was the be all end all of tractors. To me it looked huge!! Cool memories. Thanks Jason.

What a treat! It’s good to see old iron still running. I love the old tractors!

We had a John Deere 4320. If I remember right the old man had it turned up to about 150 hp. Man that thing would pull down the house. Loved that tractor.

Man I'll tell ya what I really enjoy watching these videos of all these older tractors. And it's kind of hard for me to have a most favorite out of this one cuz I like them all. Keep them coming

Like the Ford tractors. In 1976 my father in law bought a 9600 just like the one in the video. I bought his used 8000 and started my own farming operation. Quit farming in 83 and sold 8000 in 84. Wish I still had the tractor.

This video is one example of what makes BigTractorPower so great! Thankx Jason!!!!!

Loved the Oliver, but loved seeing them all. Thanks

That growl from the Veristile is pure bliss...

Hello! Never boring watching these heroes of the past...

Love the Allis Chalmers 200. Hope to buy one someday except with a cab

Absolutely love the big old tractors Jason... Thx

That agri king 1270 looked real nice and clean. Great sound to her too

Man, look at that Oliver. The Traction Kings are also extremely cool, and those small, articulated IH and JD models aren’t bad either. And the Case, Minne Mo, and Versatile.

The AC 200 was a great tractor and pretty quiet for it's time. I loved the Case and Oliver tractors too.

50 years of Awesome! Spent some time riding XTs at cousins haying. Long nose nice ride, good ol days. Our shorter 856s were bouncy but the soft dirt dampened it. Great vid! Still gotta drive one of the 4x4 crab walkers one day

My Favourite tractor from.1972 is Deutz 130 06. I also drive a 1972 deutz d4006

A neighbor of mine had a Ford 9600, he flogged and abused it sun up till sun down, it seemed to take the mistreatment and come back for more, must’ve been a good model tractor!! Regards from Down Under .

I enjoyed all the tractors from the past Thank You the information is great.

Love these older ford's it was a time late 60s and early 70s for all tractors

Brings back lots of memories when these tractors came out. My favourite is the Massey Ferguson 1150 V8 from when I was a teenager and luckily I just bought at nicely restored one this past fall. Mine is a 1971. 👍🇨🇦

my favorite from 1972 has to be the International 574, for a small tractor it was packed with market leading features, syncromesh gearbox,oil immersed self adjusting,self equalising disc brakes, hydraulicly operated dual pto, full hydrostatic steering, a great tractor for it's time

Boy does this bring back some great memories! My Dad was an agricultural engineer and companies would hire him to test equipment prior to and till maybe a year after its introduction to the market. Our first tractor we used for this was the Ford 9600, I spent a whole lot of hours in that tractor helping my dad test a new High lift dump wagon he invented. Then he was hired by a large distributor to help with the introduction of the Kvernelands top leaf spring plow, I used the 9600 to pull a 7 bottom version of one of these plows for a whole lot of hours. That same distributor was taking on a line of Deep till equipment and they gave dad a Steiger 4 wd tractor for that I think it was a Bearcat II if memory serves me right? That was a very fun tractor to learn and it had tons of HP but you had to be careful demonstrating the deep till to farmers because that implement would stop even tract tractor in its tracks if you went to deep! Great memories and thanks for sharing the video!

Thanks for the great video. Had a 1974 AC 200.

Thank you Jason, for the compilations of big tractor power from 1972. I look forward to seeing more videos such as this one in the near future. A video with 1972 harvesters, would be complimentary to this video.

My friend Joe,a modern farmer attended a seminar during which he was told the single most important farming invention was a cab on a tractor. after which he was in the field long hours yet comfortable.Joe had Duetz, and always kept his first tractor, an oli super88.

Excellent video 👍👍👍 Some good sounds there. Hats off to Rudolph Diesel...

These are the machines that were around back when I was growing up and working for the farmer down the road (whose B-I-L owned a Ford dealership). I love that old 9600 Ford and of course, that 7520 JD, but that old AC and the Oliver..............................you need one of those to go with your eight cylinder collection BTP.

I remember all of them my is 9600 Ford fast pulling tractor 🚜 this a excellent program you have kept up 👆 the good work.

I love the old classic muscle tractors

What a great video, thank you 👍 So hard to pick favourite, all of those are cool tractors, but i think i liked most of Oliver and Versatile 😎

Fabolous comparison, top made Video! So interesting with the price tag, thank BTP for sharing!

Great Video. This was going back in time.

Red guy here but that MM G1355 and Oliver 2255 were my favorites today. Great old iron

Myself being born in 1971 wasn’t old enough to remember these tractors coming out but I owned a allis 200 and would love to own a 2255

Love the 1270 in desert sunset and flambeau red!!!

First thing I ever drove was Grandad's Ford 9600. I'll always remember how powerful that thing was! Uncle was a Deere guy, had a 4020. Great tractor, too. But my first love was Ford!

So many classic tractors😍💪 that 2470 traction king looks great, just like the 6030😉👍 but all of them are nice👍😁 Thanks for the video, happy new year👍👍

I remember we had a 3020 and 4020 John Deere and was thinking about buying a 6030 until the guy selling it told my dad that it burned 8 gallons of diesel per hour! That halted my dad from buying it. We got a 1979 4040 later. Enjoy the channel. Keep the videos coming!

Really enjoyed the video of all the older tractors. My favorite tractors were Oliver and the Ford my Dad's would have be John Deere. Last but not least my younger brother loved International.

Born in 62 love the old tractors ihc 350 460 574 656 706 766 1066 spent a lot of time on them all great memories

I love all of the tractors

9600 ford was a tough tractor got one brand new in 1976 on my Dads farm.

Love the Ford 9600

The thing that has been lost over the years with modern equipment is the sound. Love that turbo and diesel grunt

Awesome video Jason. My favorite tractors are the Allis Chalmers and John Deere. Also I liked the other's. My grandpa Harris favorite tractor brand was Allis Chalmers but he said John Deere was alright. My Uncle Ryan Harris was also born in 1972.

awesome! Love to see the old eq.

I remember when they were new.

I loved seeing all those tractors Jason!! I have IH tractors but probably my favorites were the Case 1270 and AC 200. A close 2nd would be the 6030 however I like the open station ones better

well none of them suck but obviously the Ford 9600 is my favorite but that little Allis would be fun too

The Moline sure was a fine looking tractor

Thanks for making me feel old, oh wait, I am. 😀

My favorite is millions tractors and my favorite is just all cans of tractors

Love the deutz

Awesome video Jason

I can’t believe these tractors are hitting 50 yr old mark. Doesn’t even seem like it. But they are all my favorite tractors.

👋hey👋 from Dexter,Missouri my friend. Super awesome video. Be safe on 🛣️ roads 🛣️

Hi 👋 I would love to see the history of Massey Ferguson!! Thanks for another ozone video greeting from Costa Rica 🇨🇷

Good video it brings back memories of driving some of them . Have you ever located an I H 4100 Wheatland 4 wheel drive tractor? I believe it was made in the late 60's ? What I'd love to see is the I H 4300 with crab steering . My boss had a 4100 when I worked for him & telling me about the 4300 . Great video as always

Absolutely love that old stuff! Muscle tractors rock! Back when things were built to last! Find a new 2022 model of any brand and fast forward 50 years. Good luck restoring or fixing one of those! Love the video Jason 🙂

I like the Oliver 2255 I would love to have one.

My uncle had two IH 1206 tractors, traded one of them for a Ford 9600. They would both pull the 5 20s moulboard plow. But the 9600 would pull it effortlessly. Sure miss the old days on the farm working with my grandpa and uncles.

Very late too comment. My opinion. Can't beat a 9600 Ford. Experience is what I'm going by. Love all brand's. Keep it up Jason!!!

Seasons Greetings to you from Oamaru Sth island New Zealand Fellow Traveler. May you and your family enjoy a safe happy 2023. Thanks for your videos we enjoy all over the world...Carl

That was good! I'm an equal opportunity tractor fan, so hard to choose one! Thank you.

The JD 6030 has to be the bast buy in 1972. And on the smaller end, the IH 666 was another good buy. but a good ol JD 2520, or 3020 with power shift handled better because of the great power steering that JD offered in those days. When I left farming in 1987, my big tractor was an 1974 IH 1566 with front wheel drive. It was a good reliable tractor but not a very comfortable tractor to drive. I never upgraded that tractor due to martial problems, and was forced to liquidate due to a divorce.

We run a versatile 900 with the exact implement you showed in your video!

The ford 9600 The case The versatile The international

Hi Jason. What a treat. Really like all of them. But I have a soft spot for the Deutz.

You gotta love the old tractors of the seventy

Nice selection of tractors that lad on the Ellis Chalmer is gonna have a bad back

By comparison l think they make modern new tractors look cheap on price. The Deutz was, Ford 9600, JD 7520 and Versatile 900 were the pick of the bunch for me. Great video squire!

Good video, I love tractors, what size disc is hooked to the allis Chalmers 200?

Nice

My favorite would have to be the Allis Chalmers. I was born in 72 and that is the brand my grandfather used on the farm.

favorite ?? whew ..... grew up FORD , so 9600 tops list . as 12yr old tweenager , was like the KING of FORDs . next , 200 . solid simple work harder than its size wood seem to be able . 3rd ; 2255 . was like the TANK of the day 1855/1955 on planetaries and steroids . tuff , reliable IF one could learn to handle their cumbersome style . the front drive so tuff it could pull 3/4 of the load itself . saw one ; bald rears , new fronts ... went for YEARS .

.. Golden Age...!!!

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In 1972, would be a hard choice between JD 4020 and IH 1066. It was, at least to me, the age of the coolest tractors and I like them all. Great video.

Most of these would be better off without the cabs. Especially those aftermarket cabs like on the Oliver and Moline. Those Ford cabs look like a hotbox. Nice video as always.

Love your videos It would be very interesting for you to give the price of the tractor in bushels of corn of the model year. That would be eye-opening Despite corn being four times what it was in 1972 it takes a whole lot more bushels to buy an equivalent tractor today.

My favorite is John deer tractors 🚜

I like the international 4x4 and the versatile

Hands down my favorite was the John deere 6030 what a brute

Do you think that Ertl will put a 50th Ann Ford 9600 toy?1973 is the 50th Ann of the Allis Chalmers 7030/7050.And the IH 4366.Massey Ferguson introduced their 1085,1105,1135,1155 late in 1972 I remember

Hi , the aircooled Deutz 13006 has 120 HP. We´ve had one from the 70´s til zhe 90´s Greets from Germany, Opa Manni

Had a Ford 8600 most comfortable tractor i ever drove

We had a 1350 White and a 900 versatile both of them great tractors you could afford something new then and we were making some money

I liked the Oliver 2255 and the ford 8000

My 1968 5020

Just for future reference the early Deutz d130 06 was that darker green with silver underneath for the paint. The video had a later model. Might have been made later than 76 because I have a D100 06 with a 78 engine and it is the latest model black stripe on the hood and hydraulic steering.

In this time period the tractors that most commonly used here in South Africa was Massey Ferguson, Ford, Fiat, Volvo, International, Landini. John Deere just about entered the market through one of the Co Op's.

Power to the ground. I love watching and operating these tractors that are two wheel drive with correct ballast and duels. New tractors just dont seem to have the steel and rely on front wheel assist. Just my opinion.

We still use AC tractors on our farm.

Let's see how tractors built today can stand the test of time. I definitely have my doubts. Don't think they can.