Here’s a homemade 4WD from Facebook follower Paul Adams. Adams is from western Minnesota and sent this note: “Hi Pete. My Dad Alan Adams made this homemade tractor back in the mid 1950’s. He used it ...

When farmers in Western Australia's Great Southern region could not get their hands on the four-wheel-drive tractors they needed to clear new land blocks in the 1970s and 80s, the solution was simple.

At the recent National Farm Machinery Show in Louisville, Kentucky, 95 percent of the 2-wheel-drive tractors on display were equipped with a front-wheel assist. This is an indication of today’s ...

In the latest instalment of our series looking back over the history of machinery developments, Mike Williams charts the rise of four-wheel drive tractors and how they have become the norm. Four-wheel ...