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1973 Hefty Model G 3
An Unusual, Rear-Engine Orphan
Between 1948 and 1955, Allis-Chalmers produced a small, slow, rear-engine tractor, ideal for planting and cultivating. In the early 1970s, Hefty, a small tractor manufacturer in Juneau, Wisconsin, started making a rear-engine machine. Taking another cue from Allis, Hefty also named their tractor the Model G. Like their ancestor, some Hefty Gs used Continental engines; others were built with a Renault motor.
The engine over the driving wheels produced efficient power and traction, so the Hefty G lent itself to grading, snow plowing, furrowing, mowing and seed-drilling, in addition to planting and cultivating. Unfortunately, the recession at the end of the 1970s saw the end of many larger agricultural suppliers, and Hefty Tractor fell to the same economic forces that felled International Harvester and Ford.
1973 Hefty Model G 3
An Unusual, Rear-Engine Orphan
Between 1948 and 1955, Allis-Chalmers produced a small, slow, rear-engine tractor, ideal for planting and cultivating. In the early 1970s, Hefty, a small tractor manufacturer in Juneau, Wisconsin, started making a rear-engine machine. Taking another cue from Allis, Hefty also named their tractor the Model G. Like their ancestor, some Hefty Gs used Continental engines; others were built with a Renault motor.
The engine over the driving wheels produced efficient power and traction, so the Hefty G lent itself to grading, snow plowing, furrowing, mowing and seed-drilling, in addition to planting and cultivating. Unfortunately, the recession at the end of the 1970s saw the end of many larger agricultural suppliers, and Hefty Tractor fell to the same economic forces that felled International Harvester and Ford.