List of John Deere tractors
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Waterloo Boy Tractor
Deere & Company began the company's expansion into the tractor business in 1912. Deere Company briefly experimented with its own tractor models, the most successful of which was the Dain All-Wheel-Drive.
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Waterloo Boy
John Deere Model D Tractor
In 1918 Deere & Company decided to continue its foray into the tractor business by purchasing the Waterloo Gasoline Engine Company which manufactured the popular Waterloo Boy Tractor at its facilities in Waterloo, Iowa. Deere & Company continued to sell tractors under the Waterloo Boy name until 1923.
John Deere Model D
Despite the severe farm economy depression, Deere management decided to build a final John Deere D prototype in 1923. The John Deere Model D was produced from March 1, 1923 to July 3, 1953, the longest production span of all the two-cylinder John Deere tractors. The first Model D rode on steel wheels with a 6.5x7.0 inch (later 6.75 x 7.0 inch) two-cylinder hand-cranked engine. It was not however the first tractor to bear the John Deere name - as a number of Deere experimental tractors, and the John Deere Dain "All Wheel Drive" tractor (of which approximately 100 were produced during 1918/19) had all carried the Deere name before the D.
John Deere GP Tractor
John Deere GP
Competition in the form of International Harvester's Farmall John Deere decided there was a need for a smaller tractor that could serve this market and the row-crop farmer's requirements.The John Deere Model GP was built in five distinct versions through the course of its production:
• The standard-front GP, or John Deere Standard, built from March 1928 to February 1935
John Deere Model M Tractor
• The John Deere two-wheel tricycle-front GP, or GP-Tricycle, of which twenty-three units were built between August 1928 and April 1929
• The John Deere GP Wide-Tread, or GPWT, built from November 1929 to November 1933
• The John Deere GP Wide-Tread Series P, a GPWT with narrowed rear tread width designed to suit potato rows, built between January and August 1930
• The John Deere General Purpose Orchard tractor, or John Deere GPO from April 1931 to April 1935 GP
John Deere Model M
Model A (1947-52, late styled) in original condition, Gulgong museum, NSW Australia
In 1947 John Deere opened a new tractor factory in Dubuque, Iowa, built to produce The John Deere M. The John Deere M tractor was created to address the increasing demand for small tractors and to compete with the increasingly popular Ford and Ferguson Tractors. It was the first Deere tractor to use a vertical 2-cylinder engine, with a square bore and stroke of 4.0 x 4.0 inches.
John Deere Model R, 80, 820, 830
After years of testing John Deere released its first diesel tractor in 1949. The John Deere R was also the first Deere tractor with a live independent PTO with its own clutch. During the 1950's the R was upgraded to become the models 80, 820 and 830.
New Generation of Power
John Deere 3020
After making more than 1 1/4 million Two-cylinder tractors, John Deere switched to four- and six-cylinder engines. Announcement of the change came after seven years of development and forty million dollars in retooling.
To introduce the new tractors to all of its dealers In a single day, the company chartered planes to fly more than 5,000 persons to Dallas, Tex., on Aug. 30, 1960. The day would mark the release of a line of farm tractors that would soon evolve into the standard all other farm tractors would be measured by.
The original New Generation tractors are the 1010, 2010, 3010 and 4010. These were followed by the model 4000 and the -20 series.
Generation II
In 1972, the entire lineup of tractors was updated to become the -30 series. This was followed by 40 and 50 series tractors.
