Samson Tractor: How General Motors Tried to Conquer Farming and Quietly Gave Up
1.3K views · Sep 10, 2026 · People & Blogs
Comments
Comments are quiet on this one.
Up next

Emerson Brantingham: How One Company Bought Six Empires and Still Collapsed by 1928
Farmhouse Files · 5.4K views

Walter A. Wood: The Forgotten New York Empire That Once Outsold Every Reaper on Earth
Farmhouse Files · 3.6K views

Tractor Wars II
Iowa PBS · 972K views

D.M. Osborne: The New York Reaper Dynasty America's Farmers Have Completely Forgotten
Farmhouse Files · 578 views

Why John Deere's Engineers Could Not Explain How A Ford Tractor Out-Pulled A Heavier Machine
The Tractor Wars · 297 views

Why the Oliver Tractor Corporation Was Dismantled - The Innovator That Got Swallowed by a Giant
Forgotten Engines and Backshift Garage · 113K views

Hart-Parr: How an Iowa Company Invented the Word “Tractor” and Then Vanished From History
Farmhouse Files · 9.6K views

German Helmets Had That Strange Flare for One Brutal Reason
Frank Ledger WW2 · 122K views

30 Farm Machines From the 1950s So Dangerous They'd Never Be Sold Today
Earl's Old Farm Days · 69K views

Avery Company: The Illinois Tractor Empire That Went Bankrupt Not Once, But Twice
Farmhouse Files · 4.2K views

Gas Traction Big Four: The Minneapolis Giant Tractor Swallowed by a Bigger Company
Farmhouse Files · 5.6K views

Champion Harvesters: The Ohio Reaper Empire Absorbed Into a Giant It Helped Create
Farmhouse Files · 1.1K views

America Needed Germany’s Ball Bearings — Then One Factory Made Them in America
WW2 Total Archive · 130K views

A Camera Was Dropped Into Lake Mead — What They Found Shocked Everyone
Explorer Vault · 739K views

How This Insane Tractor Changed American Farming Forever (Massey Ferguson)
METTLE · 47K views

Keystone Manufacturing: The Illinois Corn Planter Empire International Harvester Absorbed
Farmhouse Files · 1.4K views

The Wartime Accident That Changed American Kitchens
Weirdward Bound · 4.3K views

John Deere Is Losing the Farmers In Canada (Here's Why!)
Robert MacKenzie · 2.8K views

Why the Man Who Invented the Car Engine Lost It in Court — The Four-Stroke Engine
Dustrialize · 12K views

Why International Harvester's Engineers Could Not Explain How The Farmall Turned In Its Own Length
The Tractor Wars · 852 views