Amazing IHC Tractor Collection of Jerry Kuster in Galva, Illinois

Good job

Wow those sure are pretty

Thats a lot of red tractors

How can I get ahold of Jerry? My dad might buy one of his tractors if that’s possible

Geeze!!! What a legend!!

I'm watching this in 2022 and it's astounding to me to see such a collection

This gentleman needs to go to Paquette's IH Museum in Leesburg, Fl

a good old fashioned hardworking honest trustworthy man…i could listen to him all day

The combine 215 I know right now we’re there three of them fully working for sell cheap.

This is the third time watching this video and I love his tractors

They were junk, international was so behind at this point! The end was so close at this time!

Wow being a IH man this Was awesome man loved seeing this video some day we will be stopping in to see that place 🙂😎😎👍👍

Jeff from Australia wants to be remembered he loved your collection.👍❤️😁🎥🦘🇦🇺

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Very cool stories along with amazing tractors

Great content

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Jerry has powerking tattooed on his ass.

Me gustan esos tractores que tienen ustedes

So nice to see history and being preserved!🇺🇸
Thank you!

Amazing piece of American history

Galva is named after a town in Sweden.

Wow

That 4366 is a massive piece of equipment. Wow

Nice collection of tractors jerry has wish i had lots of tractors like him👍

I would have liked to have seen Him give credit to Massey Ferguson’s 1150 Tractor as the inspiration to IH to make Their V 8. I collect both IH and MF. Massey is technologically advanced having developed the three point hitch AKA the Ferguson system and other innovations.

Amazing

Jerry, you’re a very passionate and nice man. You remind me of Jimmy Carter, great smile and human. Thanks for the tour. Sid from Petrolia, Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦

This is my color of all my family tractors

Love your crank tractors I grew up on then in indiana my dad collected many

Awesome red tractors

Nice !!!

Thank you Connie&Jerry for saving our history.What amazing collection.

Very cool. Love IH.

i got two international 3688 tractors, they both need a transmission, but i love them..........

Very interesting tour. Sitting here in a snow storm enjoying this personal collection. Thank you Jerry and Pete.

Years ago I worked for a friend and we had a H,806,856,966,& 2 1466’s awesome tractors especially the 1466’s ❤️❤️ miss them good old days, Thank you for bringing back awesome memories

I have a 7488

We have one of those 7288 awesome video

I put food on the family table for over 30 years driving and repairing IH tractors. It is awesome to see a collection like this one. It would be great to touch and look at a collection like this while I am still alive. Thank you for all the memories.❤

I have a question I would like to clear up. Thought maybe you could help. When I first started working for the local IH dealer in 1975 our service rep Ed Powell told me the first tractor off the line had the serial number U000500 or U000501. I don't remember which. In the interview with Mr Kuster you spoke about serial number 001 being first number. So is #1 or is first number 000500 or 000501 correct? Just curious for future knowledge. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

PETE- I'd watched that video a couple years ago and planned to visit Jerry's museum but haven't made it yet. I grew up just 8 miles north of one of the bigger towns around Galva, Cambridge, which is the county seat. My first savings account was at the People's Nat'l Bank in Cambridge, same bank Jerry used.
The tractors in the second Morton building are most familiar to me, Dad had a Continental post hole digger that I must have drilled a thousand post holes with, and Dad had a Caswell Loader on our '51 M just like Jerry had on an H.
With ALL the newer IH tractors Jerry had it's no surprize Dad couldn't find an 806 diesel the fall of 1968 to replace our 450 gas FARMALL. I worked at FARMALL in Rock Island from October 1976 to mid-year 1981 when I got caught up in a lay-off. It's sad to see how little is left of the FARMALL PLANT, my sister did get me a FARMALL BRICK one evening after work.

I was born in Galva, Iowa .

I drove a 1056 XL international great thing it was 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 from Scotland Aberdeenshire

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Wow I really love your tractors, man I wish i could be there looking at your IH. Collection I have always owned IH equipment we grew and sold quite a bit of hay and beef, in my younger days,,,, those were the best years, I do miss it so. GOD BLESS you and family thank you for posting!!

Nice collection of IH tractors.

If you ever have any questions about International Harvester (or its predecessor, American Harvester), the best place to find information is the Wisconsin Historical Society. The McCormick Deering family has donated 12 million pages of operators' manuals, parts manuals, service manuals, photographs, advertising literature and original color information for many machines produced by the International Harvester Company between 1902 and 1985, as well as about 200 reels of film. Case did purchase International Harvester, but the Case family is related to the McCormick Deerings. Most of the family offspring were female, so with each generation, the last name changed.There's only 2 Deerings left, (Brooks McCormick died in 2006) and they are female. The male Deerings have a different last name. However, they are all still very active with the Deering Foundation and have positions on the family board, having made fortunes in lots of other industries Many did not realize that International Harvester was actually a family holding company, with lots of other business interests, both before and after their rise in agriculture. For example, the Deerings actually worked in the textile industry, creating a company called Deering & Milliken which provided cloth to the Union army. Before that, they had made a fortune in dry goods. When IH decided to get rid of its residential refrigeration unit, they sold it to a little, relatively unknown company at the time called Whirlpool.

What a great collection! I grew up on a farm in Alberta Canada and we had a 3588 for a few years. When I took over the farm I purchased it from my father but while most of the other equipment was green, I liked the old anteater. I no longer farm but I still have the nostalgia.