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 The 1970's was a changing time for the Farm Industry. Just twenty years
 before a large farm tractor was 30-40 hp but by the end of the 1970's 300+
 hp was an emerging tractor market that equipment manufactures were selling
 and farmers were demanding for their growing operations. Ford did not want
 to miss the boat and rather than going through the cost and time of
 engineering and testing a Ford 4wd tractor they looked to the proven
 market leader: Steiger. From 1978-1982 Steiger provided Ford with a line
 of 4wds from 210-360 hp. These Blue Steigers were sold as the 210 hp Ford
 FW-20, 270 hp FW-30, 295 hp FW-40 and the 360 hp FW-60. The Ford FW-20 and
 30 were dropped in 1980 in favor of the TW series front-wheel assist
 models increasing sales. The Ford/Steiger relationship ended in 1982 as
 the North Dakota supplier began to run into finical troubles in the
 sagging Ag economy. Ford began looking for a new option to provide 4wd
 power for their tractor line. That new opportunity would come five years
 later when Ford purchased the Versatile Corporation. We will see new blue
 Steiger soon, as the new CNH Global company owns the former Ford Tractor
 line now called New Holland and the Steiger 4wd line sold under the Case
 IH name. In the fall of 2001 look for the new New Holland 4wds. The new 4wd series will be the TJ Series (Tractor Jumbo) TJ 275, TJ 325, TJ 375 and TJ 440. Ertl offered three toy versions of the FW-60, a 1/32 plastic Toy Farmer edition, a die-cast shelf edition and a 1/64 model. In August 2002 Don Campbell a talented steel craftsman constructed a 1/12 FW-60 completely of steel.  Don puts in over 100 hours work in each of his 4wd models to get the life like detail he does.


 

 

 

 

 

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