Source: Tom J. Bechman, FARM PROGRESS, 3/3/20


Turn the clock back to the early 1960s. Allis-Chalmers expected customers to buy all Allis-Chalmers implements equipped with Snap-Coupler hookups. International Harvester opted for a two-point hitch system. You couldn’t hook a John Deere three-point hitch plow to an Allis-Chalmers D-17 equipped with a Snap-Coupler, and the plow wouldn’t work on an IH 706 with Fast-Hitch. Equipment companies soon realized farmers would mix and match colors.

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