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History Channel program- Modern Marvels

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Tye

12-10-2002 10:14:17




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Just curious if the History Channel has ever featured farm tractors on the series, Modern Marvels. I really enjoy all the subjects I see on this series but I have never seen farm tractors featured.




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Yes Kinda

12-10-2002 14:04:40




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 Re: History Channel program- Modern Marvels in reply to Tye, 12-10-2002 10:14:17  
The History Channel did a history of agriculture and they really delved on the effect of the industrial revolution on agriculture which meant alot about tractors. Because Deere and Company is still around and with a historical archive, alot was mentioned about Deere and their tractors, with alot of factory movie shots. This show I believe may have been Modern Marval, or that other show called History Alive or Live. Something like that. This was about a year ago that it was on.

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JDOUG

12-10-2002 13:25:36




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 Re: History Channel program- Modern Marvels in reply to Tye, 12-10-2002 10:14:17  
Saw onne a couple of weeks ago that was covering earth moving and mining equipment. One of the machines covered wasa large dandem dirt scraper that was pulled by a 9400 John Deere 4WD. They talking mostly about the scrapers but did mention the tractor alittle. I love that show.



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Tim Raska

12-10-2002 11:39:19




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 Re: History Channel program- Modern Marvels in reply to Tye, 12-10-2002 10:14:17  
Saw part of one last month showing the biggest farm tractor. The whole story was full of B.S. It said, among other things, the biggest farm tractor was the 425 hp New Holland & it sould do in a day what tractors 20 years ago took days to do. I guess they never heard of Big Bud, Steiger, Versatile or Frigstat's 80' chisel that would kill a 425 hp tractor. Also showed it pulling a 32'(?) disk & said that was the biggest.
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Tim

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Cam

12-10-2002 15:29:03




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 Re: Re: History Channel program- Modern Marvels in reply to Tim Raska, 12-10-2002 11:39:19  
Speaking of Steigers, You still see a lot of those "other" green tractors up and down the Red River Valley of the North. They were made here in Fargo, now the Case-IH plant, making tractors and front-end loaders. Some of the older Steigers are on display at Bonanzaville, in West Fargo, ND. I think the No. 1 is there, and a couple more of the first 5 or 10 made.



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G-MAN

12-10-2002 13:27:43




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 Re: Re: History Channel program- Modern Marvels in reply to Tim Raska, 12-10-2002 11:39:19  
It's hard telling where the get their data and how current it is. Steiger was purchased by Case-IH,. Case-IH is owned by New Holland. Versatile was purchased by Ford and then New Holland bought them out, and their line of tractors was purchased by Buehler. I don't know if Big Bud is still in business or not. If not, they could have been talking current production tractors at that time, although Deere, Cat and Case-IH were all at about the same horsepower level there for a while. Deere is currently at 450 with the 9520. New Holland-Case or whatever they call themselves was at 445 last I heard, and I believe Cat is at or above 450. Buehler is probably right up there as well. They were obviously wrong on the disk, as Deere builds a 637 disk that is 37'10" wide, and others may build bigger ones. Most of those shows need to be taken with a grain of salt. They're more about impressing people than technical data - kind of like those hosts on Junkyard Wars that don't know a piston from a power-steering pump trying to describe the machines built on there. Far more entertainment value than educational value.

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G-MAN

12-10-2002 10:24:55




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 Re: History Channel program- Modern Marvels in reply to Tye, 12-10-2002 10:14:17  
I was just thinking of that the other night myself. It would certainly be an interesting program - especially if they did it as a Modern Marvels - Then and Now. About 90% of my television viewing is limited to the History Channel, Discovery Channel and TLC. Maybe there is somewhere to email suggestions to those programs. Probably 90% of Americans have no idea what is involved in getting their food to the grocery store.

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Jim Rutt

02-04-2004 20:03:12




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 Re: Re: History Channel program- Modern Marvels in reply to G-MAN, 12-10-2002 10:24:55  
Does anyone know how to reach the producers of the Modern Marvels television series?



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Dennis Benson

12-10-2002 22:15:55




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 Re: Re: History Channel program- Modern Marvels in reply to G-MAN, 12-10-2002 10:24:55  
You can make suggestions at:

Link

That would be an interesting one to watch. I like Demolition, and Junkyards. I even bought a copy of Junkyards.



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