What are the top 5 Mass Produced Tractors?

DFZ · Oct 10, 2011

I was wondering this weekend, what would be the top 5 mass produced tractors in the world?
If you had 2 lists- one for a single model like the Farmall M and another list for series like the Farmall M, W-6, Super M, ect. ect. which are pretty much the same tractor with improvements or axle changes.
I wouldn't know where to start for the first list except maybe with the Farmall M and the Ford 8n?

What do you all think?

SouthernFarmall · Oct 10, 2011

I will say the Fordson would be the most produced, and the Farmall H should stand second.

SF

Anonymous-0 · Oct 10, 2011

M Farmall
1066 IH
4020 JD

wisbaker · Oct 10, 2011

I think they made more Farmall Hs than Ms. They Only made the 8N for about 5 years. John Deere A & B's were popular tractors with long production runs, but the late models were a lot different than the early ones are they really the same?. John Deere made a lot of 4020s and they had a fairly long production run but the difference between a 4010 and a late 4020 is not any greater than a Early A and a late A or maybe even a 60. I would guess Farmall H & M, John Deere A & B and 4020

JMOR · Oct 10, 2011

(quoted from post at 22:07:23 10/10/11) I was wondering this weekend, what would be the top 5 mass produced tractors in the world?
If you had 2 lists- one for a single model like the Farmall M and another list for series like the Farmall M, W-6, Super M, ect. ect. which are pretty much the same tractor with improvements or axle changes.
I wouldn't know where to start for the first list except maybe with the Farmall M and the Ford 8n?

What do you all think?

FZ, when I first read your question, I thought you were asking for factual numbers/position............but then I read responses and it looks like I was wrong......you were apparently asking for opinions and guesses. :roll:

wisbaker · Oct 10, 2011

Looked at production figures on this web site, I was wrong about the 8N they say 524,076 were built, more than any other tractor on their list. 391,227 Farmall H's, 297,717 M's (they made H's a year longer) and they list John Deere As & Bs @ 300,000 each. My guess at the 4020 was off they only made 184,879 of them.

SouthernFarmall · Oct 10, 2011

I'm pretty sure that they made almost 800,000 Fordson Fs.

SF
Fordson F Tractor Data

Dean · Oct 10, 2011

Number one is the Ford 8N. Nothing else is even close.

Dean

fixerupper · Oct 10, 2011

Do you mean popularity or sheer numbers produced?
Ford sold more US Fordsons than all the other US tractors combined back in the day but they weren't very well liked so does that make them popular? They sold well because they were cheap and arguably better than a horse.

When you talk about world wide popularity the test gets harder. We in the US talk about IH and Deere a lot but you see a fair amount of Masseys in about every country in the world so I put Massey as a company name on the top of the list for popularity worldwide. I don't have a clue as to what the others would be for global popularity. Jim

Anonymous-0 · Oct 10, 2011

Heres my 2 cents , agreed on the little Fords and Fordsons ,, actually they should be 2 catagories themselves , the model d Deere was deeres biggest production # , ,either one of the f Series or h or m ihc,, perhaps these deserve 2 catagories also , ,allis and ollies and cases and minnies mos were wonderful tractors too , but they did not have the masssive # rolling out of the factory like ford and deereand ihc .. shucx i forgot massey ,, well, you guys voice your own opinion ,,

DeltaRed · Oct 10, 2011

Dont popularity and sheer numbers mean the same thing?

RodinNS · Oct 10, 2011

Without doing research on actual production numbers...
I'd place the Fordson 'F' at the top, followed by the 8N, 9/2N, Farmall H and Deere 'A'. I'm not sure that would be correct but am fairly sure about the 'F' and 8N...

Rod

oldtanker · Oct 11, 2011

(quoted from post at 20:13:05 10/10/11) Do you mean popularity or sheer numbers produced?
Ford sold more US Fordsons than all the other US tractors combined back in the day but they weren't very well liked so does that make them popular? They sold well because they were cheap and arguably better than a horse.

That's not even close to a true statement, the AC B&C's were about 1200 compared to the 8N at 1404 and the IH/Farmall C at 1500 (not sure but I think hydraulics were an option on the C). And the 8N was sold as Ford not Fordson. The simple fact is that at 1404 the Ford included the hydraulic 3 point while the others did.

Plus I've never talked to an old farmer who had a Ford N series who didn't like it. Yes there have been better and bigger tractors made. Most farmers back in those days didn't buy the only tractor offered by Ford because for most they were too small. But in the larger tractors there was a great deal of competition for the same share of the market. If you combine all the tractor sales for the same time frame, 48-52 Ford did not sell the most tractors. They had one model, IH had the C, H, M and W series (over a million sold). AC had the B, C and WD's (about 351,183 tractors), JD the A, B, G and R (over 3 quarters of a million) thats over 2, 100,000 tractors sold by just 3 companies while the 8N was in production. I have no idea how many MM's, Olivers, Case, MF's or other brands were made during that time but I'd guess that it would total well over 4 million adding in the 8N, maybe more.

Rick

Nebraska Cowman · Oct 11, 2011

I'd say Fordson, then Ford 9N & 8N followed by the Farmall Regular and F20 Then maybe add the Farmall H. That's 5. They made quite a few John Deere As but they spanned 20 years doing it.

fixerupper · Oct 11, 2011

On the worldwide market Massey as a company was the largest tractor seller back in the, lessee, 60's and 70's era? I remember hearing it in my younger days. I was such a Deere fan at the time and I remember being disenchanted when I heard about Massey being the worldwide king in sales. Jim

MO8N4ME · Oct 11, 2011

Ford 8N 524076

IH/Farmall H 391227

John Deere A 300000

paul · Oct 11, 2011

My understanding is there are 3 tractor manufaturers in China, and there are millions and millions of 5-10 acre farms there for generations. I would guess we don't really know production numbers from those slow-changing, govt owned tractor companies, but I suspect they would give the Ford N-series a real run for it's money?

No one talks about them, because they are a closed loop, no one hears the numbers. But worth throwing out into a discussion on world-wide tractor numbers.

--->Paul

sotxbill · Oct 11, 2011

fordson first 755,255
ford 8n next. 538,000

sotxbill · Oct 11, 2011

ok
Ford Tractor

1917-1927 fordson 755,255
(includes tractors made in Ireland).

1939-1941 9n 89888
1942-1947 2n 306221
1948-1952 8n 524076
Total N series 920185
Does not include fergeson made english tractors.

jubilee series mix
1953-1961 115531
1962-1964 38931
Does not include english made Fordson's or fergeson made tractors.

American made "world" series mix
1965-1975 350700
Does not include Anterwpt,Belgium and Basildom,England made Ford tractors.

NY 986 · Oct 11, 2011

Yeah, once you open it up to worldwide then I doubt the usual suspects would be on top. I would have to imagine there are a lot of MF 135's worldwide. And you are right when you say there would have to be incredible numbers built of any one model in the far East.
If you want to be technical about US only produced tractors then you have to sift through models like the Fordson F because there was production of that outside the US (Cork, Ireland). Anybody know if any N series production done at Cork or other foreign plants.

RodinNS · Oct 11, 2011

If you add basildon and antwerp production I think you're close to a mil and a half more. Basildon was somewhere over the million I think... but again, that is the entire lineup of the day, probably including skid units they provided to others for further assembly.

Rod

RodinNS · Oct 11, 2011

'N' series Ford's were strictly prodced in the US. Ford and 'Fordson' production were quite diverse from one another at that time.
IIRC, by the time the 'N' series came along, Fordson production had long since moved to Dagenham, where it remained until 1964 when Basildon was constructed to handle UK and ISO market production of the new tractors.

Rod

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