International Harvester "Roots of Power" film

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  • Опубліковано 22 вер 2022
  • One of my favorite International Harvester promotional films. The IH film Roots of Power really captures the vast product line of the company.
    This film was from 1974 but was later modified and re-released in 1978 with the 2+2 tractor and Axial Flow combines in place of the IH pickups and earlier combines. That later film is on one of the DVDs put together by Farmington Implement, available for purchase on their website.
    This film was posted by a UA-cam channel that is now gone. So I can't take credit for finding this one.
    Some cool IH products and facilities featured on this film such as the Fort Wayne Indiana truck plant, Springfield Ohio truck plant, Liberty Illinois Hough and Payline plant, Wisconsin Steel, Farmall Works in Rock Island Illinois, Melrose Park Illinois plant, Solar Turbines in San Diego California, and one of the IH ore ships on the great lakes. And lots of great International AG, Construction, and Truck products!
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  • @boatbound3300
    @boatbound3300 10 місяців тому +20

    Another great American Company thats gone 😢

  • @GSF1935
    @GSF1935 2 місяці тому +4

    The opening music was incredible

  • @danhuttinger5040
    @danhuttinger5040 9 днів тому +1

    Me and my family were I H fans through and through I was truck and equipment mechanic about 50 years I don't think the average person new how big a corporation IH was.

  • @candhgaming6985
    @candhgaming6985 6 місяців тому +7

    In our hearts forever rip international harvester🚜

  • @scottrayhons2537
    @scottrayhons2537 Місяць тому +1

    The M's, H's, C's, B's A's, Super M's and Super H's were all great tractors that last forever! Great video. Thank you!

    • @GSF1935
      @GSF1935 13 днів тому

      I find the numbered tractors (we have a 200) to be better all around although less popular

  • @OldRedTractors
    @OldRedTractors Рік тому +9

    IH was way head. Sad they are gone

  • @MitzvosGolem1
    @MitzvosGolem1 Рік тому +9

    Awesome IHC 👍

  • @tammiebreth4391
    @tammiebreth4391 5 місяців тому +3

    We had a 1967 1600 348 5spd international truck on our farm out haul and out pulled the fl70 freight liner best truck ever

  • @mattcraztex9940
    @mattcraztex9940 7 місяців тому +3

    It's amazing that such a HUGE company that was based in the US that stretched so many markets and was able to provide a true quality product went out of business. Shame that most of the factory work is now outsourced to third world countries where the "environment" never seems to matter there and the human rights record is horrendous.

  • @glenmallory9982
    @glenmallory9982 7 місяців тому +5

    IH made good products but the last generation of managers in the 1970s ruined the company. Ex dealers kid here. Blows my mind to see 66 and 86 series tractors still in use around this area. 40 to 50 years old still running. Many restored to farm use because they are serviceable. Now I’m seeing the same trend with JD 20 series. Scout prices are through the roof. Guys on you tube buying and restoring S series and Loadstars.

    • @glenmallory9982
      @glenmallory9982 7 місяців тому

      JD needs to improve how they treat customers or they will face the same fate as IH. Once a trust is lost it’s hard to get it back. So many companies got fat and forgot who made them.

    • @user-ij3op9dw3u
      @user-ij3op9dw3u 5 місяців тому +1

      I remember when the S series hit the market, they were and still the best styled International Harvester trucks,now they are nothing but Naviturds especially the Prostars and 9400i

  • @michaeldietrich475
    @michaeldietrich475 5 місяців тому +4

    Read the book "A Corporate Tragedy "...Management, Unions, and a bad economy with high interest rates took IH down. Many farms and other businesses did not survive these hard times. 18 percent loan rates were not at all uncommon.

    • @tomreisinger6220
      @tomreisinger6220 3 місяці тому +1

      It's scary, the younger folks don't think it can happen again.

    • @scottrayhons2537
      @scottrayhons2537 Місяць тому +1

      I remember those days, I was 24, 25 yrs old and borrowing money to farm. Best economic lesson I was ever taught about the crooked money system.

  • @kellyb.mcdonald1863
    @kellyb.mcdonald1863 11 місяців тому +3

    A incredible find!!! Thank You!!! A Real Gem!!!

  • @C_CEQUIPMENT
    @C_CEQUIPMENT Рік тому +4

    Great video

  • @williame.portman4026
    @williame.portman4026 6 місяців тому +3

    Greatest company in the world. INTERNATIONAL.

  • @scottberry5266
    @scottberry5266 9 місяців тому +5

    Navistar took a great company and turned it into shot.

    • @scottcurry479
      @scottcurry479 8 місяців тому +2

      If they could have run their "great company", Navistar wouldn't have gotten them.

    • @scottberry5266
      @scottberry5266 8 місяців тому

      @@scottcurry479 : ok.

  • @CelebrityStuntman
    @CelebrityStuntman Рік тому +5

    Love this video!!!

  • @Beauxtrux
    @Beauxtrux 2 місяці тому

    At one time, the IH Ft. Wayne truck plant was state of the art, building a quality truck product. When they started to build their own HD diesel engines, though, it was a big mistake trying to compete with Cat, Cummins, and Detroit Diesel with a sub-par engine and they lost millions. Bad management basically started their downfall...

  • @mochonpullon
    @mochonpullon Рік тому +4

    Excelente vídeo de cuando se hacían equipos de calidad americana. IH Mucho mejor y mas duradero que los caterpillar

  • @markward6076
    @markward6076 5 місяців тому +1

    The narrator sounds like Rod Sterling.

  • @MrLuckytrucker21
    @MrLuckytrucker21 Рік тому +4

    Sadly, being in all those different markets would pull the company down, with only the truck division (NAVISTAR) left to carry on!

    • @matthewwilliams9028
      @matthewwilliams9028 Рік тому +1

      Now owned by Volkswagen .

    • @favorit926vario5
      @favorit926vario5 Рік тому

      @@matthewwilliams9028Owned by Traton. Volkswagen have sold their truck division, whose name is now Traton.

    • @mochonpullon
      @mochonpullon Рік тому

      Case, Dressta representan a IHC

    • @MrLuckytrucker21
      @MrLuckytrucker21 6 місяців тому +2

      Those divisions were sold off, Navistar is the last remnant of old ihc!

    • @J-1410
      @J-1410 Місяць тому +1

      @@MrLuckytrucker21 not any more. July 1st, 2021, 190 years after Cyrus McCormick demonstrated the reaper, Volkswagen ended the last independent part of IHC.

  • @reddirtfarm7704
    @reddirtfarm7704 3 місяці тому +1

    I own every thing from a 1917 Titan to a 1980 4300 transtar.. but today's stuff is 🌈

  • @paulradice3534
    @paulradice3534 2 місяці тому

    They put themselves out of business unfortunately

  • @copperridgegrow3940
    @copperridgegrow3940 Рік тому

    It’s a piece of hot garbage

    • @GSF1935
      @GSF1935 2 місяці тому

      Take your John Deere and get out of here

    • @J-1410
      @J-1410 Місяць тому +1

      @@GSF1935 He has to wait 2 years for it, remember they keep downsizing since the 1970s.