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Tractor Testing; PTO Test; Jeep
No full text"Willys Jeep being tested at Nebraska Tractor Test Laboratory." Willys-Overland Motors Jeep CJ-3A Universal is shown inside the tractor test lab. After WWII, with many jeeps being surplus and a lack of tractors, the Jeep as well as the Dodge Power wagon were touted as a solution. It turned out that the transmission cooling was insufficient for sustained heavy drawbar work. Image of PTO test
Tractor Tetsing; Drawbar; Choremaster
No full text"Small one wheel walk behind garden tractor being tested at Nebraska Tractor Test Laboratory. This is on the dirt track before 1956." The smallest tractor ever tested, the Choremaster B from test 449. Front view of the garden tractor towing the Adams test car. The man operating the garden tractor is unidentified
Tractor Testing; Data Checking
No full text"Checking drawbar data for test 366. M. Hansen (John Deere representative). C.L. Zink (Nebraska Tractor Test Lab director). Red Lammert (John Deere representative). J. Schnitter (Nebraska Tractor Test Lab)." The John Deere B is towing the Adams test car. J. Schnitter is driving the tractor. He is looking back at M. Hansen, C.L. Zink, and Red Lammert, who are standing beside the test car and looking at test data on a clipboard. The old tractor test lab (today the Larsen Museum) is in the background
Tractor Testing; Drawbar Testing; Test Track
No full text"Testing a tractor in background on the new concrete track at Nebraska tractor test station in Lincoln, Neb." The concrete track is shown next to the dirt track, which was still used for steel track tests for a number of years. A visitor is shown leaving muddy prints on the track. This was generally not permitted because the dirt changes the friction characteristics of the track
Workshops and Classes; Tractor Maintenance
No full textRefilling transmission. 4-H club leaders training course at the Department of Agricultural Engineering and Nebraska Tractor Test Lab in 1949. Les Larsen (3rd from right) is showing course participants (in white coats) the steps in the proper maintenance procedures on a Ford Ferguson tractor
Square Turn Tractor
No full textLester F. Larsen with the Square Turn tractor, which was manufactured at Square Turn Tractor Co., Norfolk, Nebraska. The east campus power plant is in the background
Demonstration; Drawbar Test; Waterloo Boy
No full textDemonstration at the Tractor Test Lab. This Waterloo Boy's manufacturer was bought later by John Deere. "Waterloo Boy by John Deere on kerosene was the first tractor tested at the University of Nebraska in 1920." The Waterloo Boy tractor is shown on the dirt test track during a drawbar test demonstration towing the Adams test car and a load tractor
Tractor Testing; Belt Power Test; Massey Harris
No full text"Test no. 401. Massey-Harris Pony. R. Valentine, H. Hartz, E. Dahl (factory representative), H. Mizner, V. Hitt." They are standing behind the Massey-Harris Pony tractor inside the tractor test lab. Note the RPM counter on the front of the tractor and the time clock on the side of the tractor
Tractor Testing; Drawbar; Test Car
No full text"View of tractor and dynamometer car in 1920. Fred Laub driving. Lew Wallace in test car." The tractor is not identifiable. This load/test car was a second edition of the first open test car, which was called the bath-tub by the staff
Tractor Testing; Belt Power Test; Caterpillar
No full textCaterpillar D4 diesel during belt test. Caterpillar D4 diesel crawler inside the old tractor test lab with a belt running from the rear of the tractor to the dynamometer inside the control room
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