1960 JOHN DEERE INDUSTRIAL EQUIPMENT PROMO FILM FARM TRACTOR, BULLDOZERS & LOADERS 87214

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Love our channel? Help us save and post more orphaned films! Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Even a really tiny contribution can make a difference. An exhaustive exposition of John Deere’s 1960 offerings in construction, farming, landscaping and logging equipment, set to a lush orchestral soundtrack. (TRT 41:17) Opening title, over an aerial view of a John Deere plant: “John Deere Presents: 1960 Industrial Equipment” (0:07). Tractors pulling sheepsfoot compactors, scrapers, bulldozers, crawlers, wheel loaders, cable plows, trenchers, landscape rakes, seeders and mowers (0:58). The 831 Crawler-Loader demonstrates its features (2:14). A sign points to the Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado. The Crawler-Loader is pulled by a pickup truck (4:05). The theatre under construction (4:23). The 71 Wheel Loader (5:20). The 24 Scarifier, a hitch tool (6:35). The 64 Bulldozer (7:14). The center-mounted 50 Backhoe (8:46). The multiple position 51 Backhoe (10:33). The 230 Cable Plow, suited for new subdivisions (12:51). The Auburn Trencher (15:07). The 300 Sideboom in a corn field, with hydraulic winches and pipe bending attachment (16:20). The 15 Transporter, a pallet jack (18:10). The Pilot Touch, or single stick control for tractors (18:52). Landscaping equipment. Five three-point hitch landscaping tools to attach to tractors. The 265 Landscape Seeder, The 250 Landscape Rake, The 245 Rear Blade, The 240 Economy Blade and the 255 Box Type Scarifier-Scraper (22:05). The 255 Scarifier-Scraper (22:58). The 240 Economy Blade (24:38). The 245 Heavy-Duty Blade (26:06). The 250 Landscape Rake (27:35). The 265 Landscape Seeder, with fertilizer and seed box, spiked roller and drag chain (28:36). Industrial Mowers: The 310 M and 310 H side-mounted sickle bar motors (30:56). The Flail-type mower (33:42). Logging equipment. A 440 Crawler at a logging operation in a forest in Oregon (34:40). The 100 Log Arch (35:05). a 440 Crawler with a 602 Bulldozer and Log Arch in the mud (35:35). The 600 Brush and Rock Rake (36:20). Maple Logs are dragged out of a Pennsylvania mountain forest by a 440 Crawler with 63 Bulldozer and Gearmatic Winch (37:00). The 150 Log Arch (38:13). The 800 Log Loader (38:35). The 101 Fireline Plow (38:48). “John Deere is continually opening new frontiers to help machine owners keep pace with an ever-expanding economy” (40:30) Founded by blacksmith and inventor John Deere in the early 1800s, Deere & Company created a series of innovative plows which changed American agriculture forever. Eventually the company began to produce wagons, corn planters, and cultivators, and led to the manufacture of gasoline tractors in the 20th Century. Motion picture films don't last forever; many have already been lost or destroyed. We collect, scan and preserve 35mm, 16mm and 8mm movies -- including home movies, industrial films, and other non-fiction. If you have films you'd like to have scanned or donate to Periscope Film, we'd love to hear from you. Contact us via the link below. This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD and 2k. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com