[AT] Better build a bigger shed

[Cecil Bearden]

the Europeans have us beat on the numbers.  Belarus has produced 
3938600+ since the first wheeled tractor rolled off the assembly line in 
1953.  Information from Belarus website.  I wish duringthat time they 
had designed a color code for their wiring....
Cecil

On 3/30/2020 11:16 PM, deanvp at att.net wrote:
>
> Here is where this chart came from:
>
> https://eh.net/encyclopedia/economic-history-of-tractors-in-the-united-states/
>
> Dean VP
>
> Apache Junction, AZ
>
> *From:* AT <at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com> *On Behalf Of *Jim 
> Becker
> *Sent:* Monday, March 30, 2020 8:03 PM
> *To:* 'Antique Tractor Email Discussion Group' 
> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [AT] Better build a bigger shed
>
> Interesting. Pretty similar to the one I was looking at, but different 
> enough to suggest the data was separately gathered.  Mine came from 
> the USDA yearbook 1960, Power To Produce.  Thus the chart stops at 
> 1958. Where did yours come from?
>
> Jim Becker
>
> *From:*deanvp at att.net <mailto:deanvp at att.net>
>
> *Sent:*Monday, March 30, 2020 9:37 PM
>
> *To:*'Antique Tractor Email Discussion Group'
>
> *Subject:*Re: [AT] Better build a bigger shed
>
> Dean VP
>
> Apache Junction, AZ
>
> *From:*AT <at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com 
> <mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com>> *On Behalf Of *Jim Becker
> *Sent:* Sunday, March 29, 2020 9:59 AM
> *To:* at at lists.antique-tractor.com <mailto:at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [AT] Better build a bigger shed
>
> Somewhat of a SWAG, but there were about 4.8 million tractors in the 
> US in 1960, exclusive of garden tractors.  Certainly many of the then 
> 30 or more year old tractors were already gone.  So numbers originally 
> produced by 1960 would be higher, call the total 6 million.  The 
> annual production peaked in 1951, just over 600 thousand.  It dropped 
> off sharply after that.  I doubt that as many have been built in the 
> 60 years since 1960 as in the 60 years prior.  Call it another 4 
> million.  That puts total US production in the range of 10 million.
>
> What about the rest of the world?  Maybe as many more as the US 
> built?  If so, that would put total world production around 20 
> million.  That has to be about the right order of magnitude.  Adding 
> in garden tractors, and even deciding what a garden tractor is will 
> make a big difference.
>
> Jim Becker
>
> *From:*Indiana Robinson
>
> *Sent:*Sunday, March 29, 2020 8:14 AM
>
> *To:*at at lists.antique-tractor.com <mailto:at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>
> *Subject:*[AT] Better build a bigger shed
>
> Speaking of a billion tractors... Does anyone have a handle on how 
> many tractors have been built in the world in the last 120 years?
>
> I'm not too sure where you would draw a line between "tractors" and 
> "garden tractors". Parts of the world do a lot of farming with larger 
> two wheel tractors.
>
> .
>
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>
> Francis Robinson
> aka "farmer"
> Central Indiana USA
> robinson46176 at gmail.com <mailto:robinson46176 at gmail.com>
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