INTERNATIONAL 7288 STS Tractor Chisel Plowing 

The owner has apparently taken meticulous care of this tractor! It’s gorgeous!!

Gorgeous tractor and the sound of that 400 series engine is divine.

We have a 1486 that we use for about everything you can think of. Chiseled with it this fall. Dad said he could hear me all way back to the farm. Love the sound of that 436 engine.

Love the classics Jason. There was some fantastic innovation in the 70's, as shown on your videos. 👍

Lovely seeing these historical machines run, while this one still has a modern look up until today :). We run 2 old international harvester Vineyard tractors, and a international 956XL (european model). The vineyard models are a 1967 International 423V and a 1975 international 633SA. Both of the vineyard tractors run alot of hours every year due to them being so convenient. The 423 is used for forklift work in the orchard, which is quite a few hundreds of hours every year. the 533 does alot of ground work, mowing and shredding treebranches.

An excellent video! The 7288 and 7488 tractors were classic tractors. The owner of this one takes excellent care of his machine. I still run a 1586 IH bought new in 1980. Still pulls a 7 btm plow, 28' 496 disc, 32' 4800 field cultivator, 27' 5700 chisel and other implements. Runs with a 7130 Magnum. Prefer the older IH equipment!

What a great tractor ,it just looks like a real workhorse. I’m sure with so few of em made they are a highly sought out tractor in the industry Thank you so much What you do is really appreciated real Americans stand behind our farmers .

Our big horse is a model year 2000 MX270. We had to go through the transmission last year due to a park check valve failure. Looking through the transmission parts book the design of the STS and the 18 speed in the Magnums are a lot the same, they just put power shift features in that STS transmission. That design sure stood the test of time.

I had a hotwheels simular to this as a little kid. Probably put a few thousand hours on one in my head. Beautiful machine.

Great video those were great tractors Case did a great disservice to American Agriculture when they discontinued these wonderful machines. We currently use a 5088 and a 1456 on our dairy farm, I really like the STS transmission in my 5088

I Love to see these old machines still in action.

Thx Jason... We called those ant eaters growing up... Cool old tractor.

That’s really awesome, don’t see many 2plus2s around anymore.

Cool old tractor. Glad to see it being used instead of sitting in a barn as a museum piece.

Congrats on getting a chance to see a rare bird roar. Thanks for sharing it with us.

Nice to see a big diesel tractor working hard, especially when implement is lowered into work, what we say over pond, its genning out!!

Beautiful tractor. It sure knows that chisel plow is behind it. I wonder what percent slippage he's experiencing? Very cool Jason. GO BTP 💪.

A great classic & ultra rare IH. Thanks for posting. Take care & stay safe. Cheers

A fine workhorse I like the original 2+2 too. Have a nice weekend😊

Very nice jason. We use ih tractors on our farm. We have an H, 684 with mount o matic loader, 300, 756, 1586 with westendorf, and a 3588 2+2.

What a nice tractor😁💪 I really like the look of it👍👍 Thanks for the video👍

Back in the early 80s IH, after losing millions of formerly loyal Red tractor devotees to the Green Revolution, IH spent millions updating their tractor program. The finally realized those generational F 20 and Farmall M costumers weren’t following along as they had for decades and vastly stepped up their game. The 88 series tractors were the product. They had finally been able to stand toe to toe with JD and really had something to offer to the tractor market. But, like the country music song they were “Just a LittleTo Late”. Production agriculture was now in the very real depression era that non-farmers didn’t even know existed. The 80s brought about a time when farmers were just trying to hold on and not buying! And they weren’t buying new machinery for sure! But as far as concerned at the top of the list that farmers weren’t buying was the very innovative intermediate sized articulated 2+2 IH 88 aeries tractors! Then along comes -opportunist JI Case who’d been making their big bucks with light industrial equipment, not farm equipment, in to swoop in and scoop up the remains of International Harvester. And then, to show the outdated mentality around JICase, why all their farm tractors weren’t selling 😮all Case could think about was to repaint all their not selling Case Farm tractor inventory red so as to cash on on their buy out of long standing agricultural products producer’s innovative line of farm tractors. The very innovative 88 series of tractor innovation was trashed and I’d bet JI Case didn’t have presence of thought to even realize what they’d passed up.

Looks brand new guy takes care of his equipment love to see this

My grandfather used a 1984 IH 6588 on his 400 acre farm in Mid Michigan through the 1990s as a primary tillage tractor. Tractor had the same front grill at the Super 70s! Tractor was sold in 2008 to a local farmer that farm 12,000 acres. I still see that tractor today and wish my grandfather never sold it after getting out of farming. The same local farmer also owns IH 3388. Tractor was originally bought in northern Ohio from original owner that also had an identical twin tractor also for sale that was selling that one too.

I still think this tractor was one of the most advanced machines of its time.

We had three IHs a Turbo 100, a 185, and a 1066 with frontend loader. The 100 and 185 were used on Heston 60A tine pickup Stackhands, that we ran for 20 some odd years. We also kept a couple JD for row crop work, the last being a 4430 and 4840/50 series.

I never cared for the long nose look of those tractors, but the spaced duals really make it look more proportional improving the look a lot, to me any way! Another great video Jason.🚜🤠

Really cool tractor International made !!

Sharp tractor, the paint on it is immaculate...

Great video love to see some red power in the field. I use a 1066 with the Elmwood front wheel drive kit and a 4366 on our farm and ranch.

Great video! Thank you for the great history lesson. Jason, is that your Red Dodge dually?

One of the best tractors invented. I would like to get one for my 2 acre lawn, but I can’t find one. But I do have an Ertl Precison Series in my bedroom.

Wish they would’ve have made more super 70 series tractors and made one that pushed the 300hp range, for the 80’s era that would’ve been a hit…IMO

We have three of them. One 3588 and two 3788. Found one of the 3788’s in a machine shed that had sat there for eleven years. Had 3480 hours on it.

Sweet! What a beauty, love it!

Hello! A truly unique machine!

Not sure but I believe it’s the rarest production tractor in the world second to the 7488…I was watching a story on this tractor and there is a farmer somewhere in the states that took the first one off the line on demo and bought it on the spot and apparently still has it…the video is probably a decade old now but it was worth a fortune I guess!..

That thing is beautiful! Man, I'd love to ride in that some day (or one like it). I have long had a soft spot for the 2+2 tractors, and those with duals all the way around are so cool. I could watch this thing till for an hour with no problem. BTP, the title says chisel plowing, but is that implement considered a disk chisel or a disk ripper? Looked more like a disk ripper to me with the design of the shanks and how deep it was running. I know a lot of rippers have even heavier shanks but in some of my older JD brochures, their disk rippers have the same style shanks as this one, which is why I asked. This was one of the most enjoyable videos (for me personally) you have put out in a long time.👍👍👍

Very very nice josan

❤😊 OOOOOOOOH YES I HAVE ENJOYED IT JASON❤😊

That is a very nice and Sharp 7288 .

👋 hey 👋 from Dexter,Missouri Super awesome video😎 Have a super awesome night🌉 be safe.

That is Awesome to see. I had Literature on them when they came out. Wish i still had it.

Thats a disc ripper

Has it been restored or do they keep it in such nice condition?

Very very nice very reeel jason

Bel video, è uno spettacolo questo trattore. 💪👍👍👍🖐️

hello from denmark and great video

Good video.

Beautiful tractor the bark of the 466 oh yeah

Bad ass! Sounds great! I read a post one time a guy said 2+2’s were not designed to do heavy tillage, rather more row crop oriented work...welp, this video puts that comment to shame. BEAST

Yes sir big red on the job once again love it 🍻🦅🇺🇸❤️💪

Sounds sweet

Interesting this tractors connection to the Case merger.

Awesome tractor it’s on are wishlist. Yes we farm with International probably got @30 International’s

Love that engine note magnificent

Love the red power. It always looked like those tractors should have higher horsepower than what they actually have.

Completely unrelated......sounds windy yet the wind turbines aren't being used?? Still a great tractor in action!!

Big power monster

There's a difference

I can remember when they were to be coming out with them I was in 8th grade in school and I remember my Dad's dealer and a iH rep sitting at our kitchen table trying to talk my Dad and uncle into demoing one but I remember my uncle said no because all our tillage equipment was to big for it we had two 4786s uncle rick didn't want to deal with it at the time but I wish he would have now.

What was the other old red tractor in the field?

The owner had a real gem there. He ought to consider parking it and keep the hours off it. But that's just me.

A Snoopy lives!!

I'm running a 72 IH 1466 with a JD 980 field cultivator, IH 5100 grain drill, and aCase International Cyclo 800 planter.

Real interesting video on history of the tractor there were 2 in our area but don’t know what there model number was had an H I dealer real close but now they just sell Kubota

Very nice looking tractor. Shame they mismanaged the company and quit making farm machinery. I like the red tractors the best. Still farm with them.

Why only 19 tractors made its a beast i would have thought it would have been great competition for Deere and Steger?

Salam pejuang traktor 👍💪💪🇮🇩🇮🇩🇮🇩

Looks like it came right of the factory floor

Cool

Could someone please explain why the 2+2’s were not recommended to have duals in the front? I guess I’ve seen pictures without the duals but didn’t know they weren’t supposed to have them.

Had 7488 number 11,12, and 16 on our farm wish you could find one for a video in the future

Are all the tractors of this model still in operation as far as you know

Galva IL? Jerry Kuster?

That probably took a Long time to Restore that 7288

We called them anteaters

She’s going to still be pulling long after late model emissions tractors have melted in their own juices.

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👏👏💪💪🚜🚜

That tractor feels overkill for this task.

I wish you would have interviewed the operator and asked him how he felt winnning the lottery................

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Not a chisel plow

For the love of god pull a 5 shank instead of a 7🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

I am not a big fan of red tractors But that is a beautiful tractor! I had that it would be in the garage and spit shined daily!!!! And not worked!! But I get it too!!!

looks like its sat in the barn the first 30+ years