Amazing IHC Tractor Collection of Jerry Kuster in Galva, Illinois

Machinery Pete video interview walk through of the Jerry Kuster IHC tractor collection in Galva, Illinois. Jerry shows Pete the 1st serial number IHC 7288, 3588 and 1568 tractors plus much more

[@machinerypete]

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[@daveblakeley91]

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

[@davidaney]

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!!

[@jackiemercer7816]

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

[@sidvanderwerf3583]

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 🇨🇦

[@toddszewczyk8894]

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

[@BigBadJohn]

Jerry is a National Treasure. I remember how excited I was with Planes, Trains and Tractors when I was a boy. IHC was a class act because they made everything themselves all the way down to bolts and washers. IHC bearings even came in sealed cans to preserve them. Unfortunately I don't own a Red Tractor anymore, we have an old Ford and a new John Deere, but we still have our Scout.

[@rodneyswearingen1020]

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.❤

[@stevew270]

Jerry and Connie seem like really nice people, this world needs more of em'.

[@martinwolff8798]

this video brought tears to my eyes as i remembered my fathers tractors that he ha when i was in high school in the early 1980s. he owned a super m , a 400, a 706 gas, a 1206 turbo diesel, a 966, and a 1468. i personally restored the1953 farmallsuper m, the 966, and the 1468.between the ages of 14 and 19 years old. i sure miss my dad and those awesome red tractors!!

[@chevysilver-ray-dough6328]

This ol boy is awesome. Always smiling and laughing and he certainly knows nothing kills a deere like a Magnum

[@rustyau3669]

LOL, funny as , Chevy.... Vclever....

[@smid2550]

A magnum is an awesome tractor, but they are still crude compared to a Deere.

[@hotrodfella1]

Wow, what a collection! I was especially interested in the 123 SP combine, I have one of those sitting in my trees, it's been there all my life. I'm 54 now, and I still walk around it in awe like I did when I was a kid.

[@stillwater62]

The amount of money require to amass such a collection must have been staggering. They all look to be in almost mint condition. Congratulations Mr. Kuster on a fantastic collection.

[@tellybriggs6019]

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

[@machinerypete]

Thanks for watching!

[@HUSTONFARMSest]

This was the fastest 70 minutes I've spent in a long time. Thanks for the tour.

[@machinerypete]

Thanks for watching :-)

[@ozzykrahn806]

Connie is one of the few last generation that allowed the guy to have his fun with out leaving him

[@PeterCarolM]

What a great guy Jerry is, down to earth and genuine - if i ever get to Galva IL, if possible, I'll look him up.

[@jsteifel]

I can't put my finger on it, but I feel like I know Jerry, even though I don't. Thanks for saving history, and some beautiful tractors.

[@machinerypete]

Jerry and Connie are good people...Thanks for watching :-)

[@kevinkroll6456]

It's very nice to make a living history of the man and his wife that made this all possible, the women who really stood behind the scenes and lifted a eye brow or two and let a man bring his dreams come to reality that is history of true love and so others can enjoy the fruits of their labors , what a tour ,I thank you and them for that !

[@davegdm954]

the tractors are cool. but the history and stories this guy can tell really makes it all tie together

[@brada1997]

He must have a couple million in tractors, toys, etc. What an awesome collection and wonderful guy!

[@1sdmyers]

My father used a 1206 on our dairy farm four years and have to say was always dependable and was my first tractor to drive at age 11 this video brought back some good memories. Thank you!

[@machinerypete]

Thank you for watching :-)

[@songofthepassaic1521]

This video held my attention the entire time. It was only at the end did I notice it was 74 min long. Time flies when you are watching something interesting. Great video, thanks to Jerry and Connie for sharing

[@rickwascher4730]

Nice collection of IH tractors.

[@seanmccarthy3660]

Amazing collection Very humble man Great to see him share his love of tractors

[@robertlee9395]

What an amazing collection. Good to see all the old stuff saved from the scrapyard.

[@shannonjensrud5712]

Good to see Jimmy Carters younger bro doing so well in life!😂😂BEAUTIFUL collection of rare red power too!

[@SuperKyle309]

I know him.... I gonna have to tell him you said that. 😂

[@Buzzbox3rd]

Amazing collection, so much great history here, well done for showing us all.

[@leehester2285]

thank you jerry & connie for sharing. great job machinery pete. from sikeston, missouri

[@cordovanbee713]

WOW what a Great Collection, Thanks for sharing

[@2233golf2]

What a great gentleman....wonderful tour-thank you very much for this video!

[@wyattearp6883]

First tractor I drove was a Farmall H and the first combine was a McCormick 101. Thanks Jerry for bringing back some of my fondest memories of the farm.

[@glennwall552]

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

[@benbright5382]

Wish I lived in the USA I would be in the museum and Jerry's shed all the time !!

[@dheavymetal6459]

Jerry, your my hero! You have a beautiful collection of history. Love all the red and so glad you saved them from the scrapyards. God bless

[@kk5sc]

Thank you sir! My dad managed an IH dealership in the 70's and I worked at a dealership while I was in high school and college, working on many of the tractors in your collection.

[@Bustayote69]

Great folks and such a great collection. The knowledge and history Mr. Kuster shared is just as impressive as his collection.. Thank you for sharing~!

[@margiesilver8664]

Wow, what a collection. Only 45 min East of me. Thank for the tour.

[@markphillips6998]

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

[@wayner806]

‘22 for me too! Grew up driving a 1086 myself.

[@tractorhyatt7044]

Amazing collection of IH tractors. This outstanding video will leave you seeing RED! Great video, Machinery Pete! And thank you to Mr. and Mrs. Kuster for sharing their collection with us! 🇺🇸👍

[@inspiredwoodworks4131]

I grew up on IH, and I've got to say that seeing this brings back an awful lot of great memories. My dad had a 706 LP, and now he has a 1568 and (my favorite) a B-414. Amazing collection!

[@fauzycastilloschoonewolff2146]

Boy do I remember when I was 15 years old and I would visit my grandpa‘s Farm and the days that we had to cut hay he had an MD he would drive MD and I drove a 556 and it those tractors ran like a cheetah now that I am 80 years old and I realize that now I have John Deers and I have formals and I have Kabota‘s

[@steveriddle313]

God bless you Jerry and Connie love your big red collection love that Crown Victoria very classy God bless you

[@taylorklein7026]

Thanks for sharing this awesome collection of grandpa's!!

[@jimmcgahon6961]

What a serious collection sounds like real gentleman great vid

[@mattmaynard3553]

We had a C, M, 656 and 686 growing up and I loved driving them. Drove several 986, 1086, 1066, 1566 for farmers in Italy, Tx. Love the IH tractors.

[@sarge3ad]

Thank you to the Kuster's for sharing their wonderful collection and thank you Machinery Pete for bringing this collection to video so people like me can enjoy.

[@fatoe8384]

Ron fuck you Ron

[@michellegrone7131]

want to go see this mans collection....big time.....love IH tractors.....this guy is awesome....rock on

[@Farmboymarv]

That is what my heaven looks like. Wow, thanks for sharing!

[@fletcher3913]

Great tour and walkaround. Thank you.

[@clayboist]

What a cool fella. And even cooler wife for letting him have such a timeless collection.

[@MowMud]

Wow. Simply impressive. Glad I watched this.

[@RLGGIBSON]

THANKS FOR DOING THIS, THESE WERE ONE OF THE BEST TRACTORS MADE .

[@leddielive]

Beautiful collection Jerry, a credit to your life love of all things red, much appreciated from England UK.

[@aaronj7327]

Jerry seems like the kind of guy you could talk to all day

[@MatthewWilliams-pd7iy]

ABSOLUTLY.... I m a john deere geek but tractor guys are all family.....

[@jmgredgreen4x428]

Awesome tractor collection! My dad has a 1961 International Harvester Scout with 4x4 that has 21,000 original miles.

[@thomasdiaz5116]

What a great collection! Those classic machines really take me back to my Minnesota roots, though they look nicer than the machines I operated before joining the Air Force in 1982.

[@jackrobinson8945]

Brought up with green tractors but back in the day had a 186 Hydro to pull the spud digger. Great tractor! Always had many IH Scouts, pick ups and tandem trucks.

[@randallbyrd1973]

Awesome collection TY for sharing

[@fergie35X]

Great video and what a great chap. Perfect viewing for my lunch hour (UK time !!) Great memories of my local IH dealer, Lott & Walne in Dorchester, Dorset (UK)

[@machinerypete]

Thanks for watching fergie! Msg me some tractor pics from the UK sometime if you get a chance. My email: [e-mail]

[@scenicdepictionsofchicagolife]

Y'all have Case I HAVE in the UK? Man, the more you know. Blessings from Illinois.

[@nissansilviakouki]

Eric Christian We do aswell in spain

[@lesgobrandon]

Watching this after I just went to Stew Paquette’s place in Leesburg Florida it was amazing as well. Thanks for sharing this.

[@freedomring4813]

I live less than a hour away from it. I worked for the Middlesex Corporation who bought out their construction company and Asphalt plant in Leesburg many years ago.

[@bluegtturbo]

One of the greatest things about this video is feeling that Jerry is in it for his passion for IHC , and not just for the bucks:-) I think I'm going to have to fly to Illinois from Ireland to see this amazing collection!

[@scenicdepictionsofchicagolife]

bluegtturbo we'd love to have you! The most beautiful place in Illinois is known as the Driftless Area where the Palisades State Park is, which is right around the area of Galva if not a little due north. Be sure to visit Chicago if you do. (:

[@iracole7134]

That’ll be a good deal

[@porterdaxton8871]

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[@lucassage1332]

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[@porterdaxton8871]

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[@dennisjohnson5754]

Loved this video. I love the old history. I'm a john deere man nut i love the old collections

[@tjmcmurtrie9323]

This collection makes me drool.......I love it!......nice collection

[@miltonsteele6676]

wow great tour thnx!

[@markchichester9571]

What an amazing man and his collection. Amazing history. The man who presented this is also top notch. respectful, curious, by far the best time I have spent on the internet EVER. Machinery Pete my new best friend.

[@machinerypete]

Thanks for watching Mark! And thanks for your kind words. Glad you enjoyed the video!

[@russellking9762]

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

[@ericvogel1126]

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

[@jamesranger6283]

crazy nice collection. Fun time watching.

[@SuperKyle309]

His old mechanic buddy that he spoke of... Bill Grabbe. He was into wheel horse garden tractors also. I Bought part of his collection. Great video Im from the Galva area.

[@jerrydevine8057]

that was awesome! what a collection!

[@richardhutchings921]

Fantastic, Amazing,Stupendous. I love it.

[@MrSixpoint]

Awesome Thanks For Sharing

[@floydwilliams3321]

Very cool stories along with amazing tractors

[@DrEVIL-og4qv]

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.

[@175IQLOSERS]

Wow this was so much more then I was expecting... a Big Thank You..!!!

[@farmshowmagazine9164]

Thank you for sharing.

[@paulyarek]

Mr Kuster is a fine community man.

[@513coneyslinger]

I never grew up on a farm, had a great aunt and uncle they had a small little hobbie farm I’d say. As far as I know they didn’t have any kind of big equipment. But for some reason I love these old tractors. Sorta simple machines, yet they helped build this country.

[@melissasloan4949]

I worked for a neighbor on his multiple farms growing up, and he had a 966 that was my favorite. Nothing like cutting an 80 acre field of alfalfa in the early summer. Still remember the smell of that sweet, freshly cut alfalfa and the sound of that diesel engine purring. Best memories of my childhood.

[@stew3588]

One great collection ,,,,, just wonderful ,,, stew paquette

[@machinerypete]

Stew...I need to come visit you and see your collection soon :-)

[@tomgardner2726]

Beautiful collection jerry.

[@jordanbeardy8798]

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

[@allanbarsness6076]

We had a 706,806 and a 1206 on the farm long ago

[@couchrider6228]

Enjoyed your tour very much, wish they still made IH, I still have and use a IH 484 it’s in really good shape got to get started rebuilding a leaky master cylinder.

[@jerryhartman3464]

Jerry, You have an amazing collection! You got to be proud of what you are holding. And Pete, you did a great job filming it and to be very knowledgeable about so many things. Loved it! Thank you. I own the #4 of the 7288. I love it! Planted 1000's of acres and anhydrous a lot also with it. It is a beautiful tractor. Thanks to you both.

[@integritytransport8762]

How many hours on the 7288?

[@provenxreaperx]

wow wow wow what a super collection. props to him collecting history of IH

[@PorscheRacer14]

Love the collection. My grandpa ran a lot of International. From the KB3 and KB5 to the Scout to the Loadstar with trucks. He bought a new setup in 1980 which was the Loadstar, 6588 and 1482. Later on we got a 1680 and a green Steiger. We also had a 724 with an Allied front-end loader and a 1070 Case. We had an International plough, but ran MF 360 discers for seeding. Now, there's not much left but I did keep the KB3 and plan to restore it. Hopefully I can get as good as the machines shown here!

[@90fordb2]

Cool collection, my grandpa ran IH on the farm his whole life. Always had usin' tractors though, not collectin' tractors. He'd get a big kick out of this though. If I ever go to Illinois again I'm stopping to see these things.

[@rongrose3746]

What a great gentleman!!!!!!!

[@04tacomaguy1]

What a nice man, feel kind of bad I bet people just always talk about his tractors hope people talk to him as himself too. I know from having cool things that sometimes to be the focal point for people and they forget about you as a person and your needs as a friend

[@ericbaker9546]

Wonderful presentation!! I have enjoyed all of your videos for a long time now. Thank you for sharing. Eric from North Central, NH

[@machinerypete]

Thanks for watching Eric :-)

[@cowboykody6775]

I have a '53 IH Refridgerator, Oct-'53 still works good in my house

[@machinerypete]

63 year old IH fridge still working....COOL....literally :-)

[@pikeywyatt]

I have lived on a farm 30 years +,now 70,(me).the last tractor i new was D'ASIE .Les the owner asked me to look on hear when he was in ill health.Witch i was happy to do.But now wow i might just love them.All the best from Sussex UK

[@davehager1981]

tony Wyatt 7

[@briangleason5597]

Case IH all the way. Beautiful collection, what I would give to own just 1. Wow. What beauty's.

[@gridiron48]

great video really enjoyed

[@clidekiddlehopper3779]

Best video I have watched ,Thanks so much !

[@xxzxx9770]

Beautiful just simply beautiful

[@BornN2Grave1]

When you are a collector and have to put on your glasses to read what year tractor it is, you know you have too many. Not sure how I got here but thanks for the tour.

[@Thebigtipper101]

We have one of those 7288 awesome video