Produced by International Harvester, it was part of the Farmall H series, which revolutionized farming in the 1930s and 1940s. The 1944 model, like its predecessors, featured a narrow front end ...

“You apply power and the front end comes off the ground almost immediately.’’ Deardorff was thrown off as many as 10 times, he said. “You had to be very careful with it. It took awhile.