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Deere & Company, doing business as John Deere (/ ˈ dʒ ɒ n ˈ d ɪər /), is an American corporation that manufactures agricultural machinery, heavy equipment, forestry machinery, diesel engines, drivetrains (axles, transmissions, gearboxes) used in heavy equipment and lawn care equipment.
The A was succeeded with minimal changes by the John Deere 60 in 1952 when Deere changed to using numbers instead of letters. The engine was upgraded for more power, and LP gas was a fuel option, as well as an optional 3-point hitch and a live power take-off .
Many John Deere and other tractors and stationary power units produced from the late 1920s to the early 1940s had compression relief petcocks on the engine block, one per cylinder. These were opened during starting to de-pressurize the cylinders when spinning the flywheel by hand.
The 3020 is nearly identical to the John Deere 3010 model that it replaced. It has a wheelbase of 90 inches, and a fuel capacity of 29 gallons. It was offered with three different engine options including a 3.7L 4-cyl gasoline engine, a 4.4L 4-cyl diesel and a 3.7L 4-cyl LP gas engine all produced by John Deere. The 3020 was rated at 71 horsepower.
Three new 4WDs came to market in the fall of 1981; these were the 225 hp (168 kW) 8450, 290 hp (220 kW) 8650, and big 370 hp (280 kW) 8850; the 8850 came with the company's biggest engine, the 955 cu in (15.6 L) V8 engine; Besides the 8850, the John Deere 844 wheel loader and 990 hydraulic excavator were the only other John Deere products to ...
The L was first produced in 1937. Unlike most John Deere tractors, it was designed in John Deere's Dubuque Wagon Works plant in Dubuque, Iowa, and did not resemble previous Deere products. It departed further from tradition by using a non-Deere engine, a Hercules two-cylinder engine mounted in line, rather than transversely, as had been ...
The John Deere Model R tractor was John Deere's first diesel tractor. A large, heavy tractor, it had fixed wheel widths and was not produced as a row-crop tractor with adjustable axles. The R was followed in the John Deere numbered model series by the John Deere 80, 820 and 830 tractors, which represented evolutionary upgrades to the basic R.
In 1953 the G was replaced by the John Deere 70 with all-new styling. The 70 could be ordered for gasoline, distillate, liquefied petroleum gas, and diesel fuels. [2] Engine power was increased, and the 70 could pull four or five plows. The gasoline starting engine for the diesel engines was updated from a horizontally opposed two-cylinder to a ...