Tractor Owned By President Dwight Eisenhower! Black Hawk Model 40 

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These were good tractors.

You have a good woman. "Don't come back without the tractor". There's not many wives that would say that.

I find it interesting this tractor was given to Ike, ... Canadian built tractor. We bought this model in 1952 (3?) in the US. It was sold as a CO-OP E4. It was well ahead of others, such as Case, JD, International, Allis-Chalmers, in some respects. He mentioned here it had a six cylinder engine. All others were four (or two). Ours had a Buda engine, gasoline powered. Very few diesel tractors were sold at that time. The forerunner features: eight speed transmission, full-time hydraulic for remote cylinder operation (e.g. plow, disk), live PTO. Nobody else had live PTO and we wanted to drive a Gehl forage chopper. Despite having forerunner features, some were not implemented well. The hydraulic system was not very reliable. The shifter in the transmission would slip out of position sometimes. Our tractor was a "standard front end," rather than "adjustable front end" as the one in the video. The front spindle axles was a weak point. I broke many of them, right at the base where the wheel bearings would run. The other great feature was the large tires. Ours had 13-38, and we split the rim to make it fit better to the ground. No, our tractor did not have a lighter or radio. I ran this tractor for hours, hours, days, days. It was "my tractor" growing up. The Buda was fail safe - far more reliable than the four cylinder Case. It purrred like a kitten, over against the two cylinder JD. It could be heard for a mile away. As somebody pointed out, third gear had a whine, a distinctive whine unlike any other gear, any other tractor. But, third year was the plow gear, pulling concrete roller, disk/harrow/roller combo. Harrow/roller was fourth, maybe fifth. First/second were the creeper gears for running the Gehl field chopper. No other tractor had creeper gears.

I loved the pun at the end, but I also am impressed by the tractor. Eisenhower was elected around my first birthday. I read Ike's book "At Ease" and would recommend it to anybody who wants to get to know the man.

Great story about a great man and a very interesting tractor. I'd like to know more about that beautiful red barn at 6:45 in the video. They don't build 'em like that anymore!

This tractor is on display at the Harrisburg, PA municipal airport

Wow awesome video.

Great video!

Nice story and really well done video. Ill see if their book is available on Amazon. Thanks for sharing.

I have a 1949 Farmall m

At their GETTYSBURG ADDRESS ! 😂😂

made in canada too!!!

What’s with the gear wine

The gear noise would drive me nuts.

Was it made in Black Hawk County, IA?