Steiger Tractor
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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, four-wheel drive tractor, in the 1950s. The tractor division of Steiger Farms was moved to Fargo, North Dakota in 1969.
They have been one of the few successful mass-producers of 4WD tractors in the world. 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 CIH'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.
Steiger has built tractors for various other tractor manufacturers & distributors under the International Harvester, Ford, Allis-Chalmers, and Co-op Implements names.
Steiger 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.
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 Steigers.
[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
