Steiger
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Steiger was founded near Red Lake Falls, Minnesota, USA by Douglas and Maurice Steiger, brothers who needed a reliable, high-powered, articulated four-wheel drive tractor, in the 1950s. The tractor division of Steiger Farms was moved to Fargo, North Dakota in 1969.
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[edit] History
Steiger have been one of the few successful mass-producers of 4WD tractors in the world. But a lot have been sold branded as other big Marques machines. Steiger has built tractors for various other tractor manufacturers & distributors under the International Harvester, Ford, Allis-Chalmers, and Co-op Implements names. Steiger also licensed their tractor designs to RÁBA of Hungary, which built RÁBA and RÁBA-Steiger tractors. Vandel, of France, also licensed the Steiger design and built tractors under their name.
In the 1970s, International Harvester company of Chicago purchased a 30% stake in the company. This stake was later sold to Deutz-Fahr of Germany in 1982. Case IH, formed from the merger of Tenneco's Case with the agricultural arm of International Harvester, purchased Steiger in 1986, and the familiar lime-green color of Steiger's was retired as Case IH's red took over. The Steiger name disappeared for a while, but has been re-introduced on the 4WD tractors in Case IH's stable.
Former Steiger President Jack Johnson later formed Titan Tractors in Fargo to re-manufacture and retrofit old Steigers.
American Tractors, or AmTrac, in England, currently retrofits and rebuilds old Steiger's.
From 1982 till 1986 Steiger built the FW series of High Power tractors for Ford. But after Case IH bought out Steiger in 1986 Ford then bought Versatile of Canada.
[edit] Steiger in the UK
Steiger's were first imported into the UK by a Warwickshire farmer after a High HP tractor. The UK imports were generally fitted with CAT engines, which meant the local CAT dealer could service them & sort out any engine warranty issues, and as they had a good reputation are perceived as more reliable.
One problem with these Supper tractors was there was no UK equipment to suit then as they were twice as big as a Doe Triple D. So Dowdeswell was asked to builds some custom Implements for use with the new Steiger tractors in the UK.
Later Ford introduced the FW20, FW 30 & FW 60 which were built by Steiger for Ford. In the UK Ford then bought out the existing importers stock and service / order book to gain a ready market, but they only sold the FW30 & FW60 models in the UK market.
[edit] CaseIH Steiger range
Following the takeover by Tenneco (Case), there was some range adjustments and the Case IH high-hp range was dropped in favor of the Steiger models.
The new range was then branded with the Quadtrac name for the tracked machines.
[edit] Model History
- 9100 Series Years of Production: 1986-1989
- 1000 Series Years of Production: 1983-1986
- Series IV Years of Production: 1983-1985 (The Tiger IV was produced from 1984-1988 and ended production as the Case International 9190)
- Industrial Series Years of Production: 1982-1984
- Ford FW Series Years of Production: FW Series 1978-1982
- Series III PT/PTA Years of Production: PT Series 1977-1981/PTA Series 1978-1982
- Series III Years of Production: 1976-1983
- Series II Years of Production: 1974-1976
- Series I Years of Production: 1969-1974
- Barn Series Years of Production: 1963-1969
[edit] Model Range
[edit] UK Machines & Preservation
(please add details of any known examples)
Several were imported by Offchurch Tractors between 1976 & 1982, with some still in use today.
- A Steiger Cougar ST251 (Cummins engined) is still owned by the family farm who set up the dealership originally.
- Steiger Panther ST325
[edit] References
- Wikipedia (basic article)
- Classic Tractor Magazine No.88
[edit] External links
Template:Steiger tractors
Template:CaseIH
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