Time to Pull
It is summer time and that means it is tractor pulling season. This months Toy Tractor Times will look at several of the exciting pulling tractors being produced by Gottman Toys, Inc through Spec-Cast. You will surely be impressed by the detail going into these hot rod tractors. Matt Hirtzel of Saluki Toys gives up close look at the all new Minneapolis-Moline G6 puller from Gottmans and Spec-Cast. Pictures do not due the details found on this model justice.
Toy Tractor Times TV also has video of live action 1/64 mini-pullers from the St. Louis Toy Show. These models really get up and pull.
We also have plenty of toy news articles for you this month too. Long Creek Creek Toys and Die-Cast Promotions previewed the new highly detailed 1/64 Rite 750 Earthquake 4wd at the Summer Toy Show in Dyersville, Iowa this month. The Toy Tractor Times has the full story on the toy and the interesting work the real tractor does on an Oregon grass seed farm. The highly anticipated 4th John Deere Key Precision Tractor has been announced and T.T.T has pictures and information in Precision Perspectives. The Toy Tractor Times also has a \ feature on White 6100 series tractors and the proud history of White tractors to coincide with the June Toy Tractor Times TV Farming Flash Back video on the White 6100 series. You will not want to miss this White video showing rare footage of early Hart-Parr, Oliver and Minneapolis-Moline tractors working in the field.
The 20th Dyersville, IA Summer Toy Show took place this month and provided plenty of new toy news. New models from Ertl include the 1/16 IH Farmall 460 with Windbreaker and fast hitch, CaseIH STX 530 Quadtrac, John Deere Key Series Precision 420, Fall Farm Show John Deere 8230, John Deere 4630 and 4640. In 1/64 Ertl has introduced a New Holland TJ480 with scraper pans, 4 piece John Deere historical combine set, Fall Farm Show John Deere 9660 STS, Decade Dynasty IH and John Deere sets. Spec-Cast had exciting introductions with a High Detail Series Oliver Super 99, High Detail series IH Farmall 340, Minneapolis-Moline Resin Prototype and a 1/64 high-detail Case high crop. ToyTractorShow has all the exciting new models featured in the June Farm Toy Report at www.toytractorshow.com/farmtoyreport/june06
We hope to have more information on the 2006 Toy Tractor Times IH 1066 for you in the July issue. Hopefully we will have an order form. Because the IH 1066 is our 20th tractor since 1986 we are working on some special surprises for collectors with Ertl. This month we do have a short video introduction on the collectors feature the new 1066 will have.
Until Next Times....
Jason & Stefanie Hasert
The Toy Tractor Times Spirit of '76 DVD
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- The Making of The Toy Tractor Times Case Spirit of '76
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- Jay Gyger's real 180 hp '76 Case 1570
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- The History of Case and CaseIH
- Video of modern CaseIH machines in the fall harvest including the CaseIH AFX 8010 combine, STX 500 Steiger Quadtrac and MX 285 Magnum
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Farming Flashbacks: Oliver/Minneapolis. Moline History
View this historical video on Toy Tractor Times TV!
Most people often wonder if the tractors that they see are built by the drivers or are built by another individual...
1/16 Minneapolis-Moline G VI “Temporary Satisfaction”
This month Toy Tractor Times is about that great American pastime – pulling tractors!
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White tractors debuted in 1975 with a rich history of 125 years of farm equipment brands like Oliver, Hart-Parr, Minneapolis-Moline and Cockshutt behind hit.
John Deere Key Series Precision #4
The fourth tractor in the John Deere Key Series from Ertl will be the John Deere 420.
Lely Multipower 420
The farm toy hobby in recent years has begun to focus on the big horse power one of a kind 4wds from the 1970's.
Long Creek Toys Rite 750 4wd
The Long Creek has been rapidly building a name for itself in recent years for its series of short line 1/64 4wd models from the 1970's.
What would be your ideal weekend? For this toy collector, it doesn’t get much better than going to a toy show AND a tractor pull in the same weekend.
Gottman Farm Toys Pulling Tractor Series
Featured article on Danny Gottman.
White 6100 Series
This month in "Collect it All" we are going to look at the AGCO-White 6100 series toys offered by Scale Models and Ertl.
Despite what the calendar says, most folks consider Memorial Day the start of summer.
Next 'Times
In July The Toy Tractor Times will feature its annual Wheat Harvest edition. We will cover big combines like the CaseIH AFX8010 and John Deere 9860 STS out on the wheat harvest 
on Toy Tractor TV. We will look a model combines like the John Deere 6600 and share a model wheat harvest crew in Down on the Model Farm. Toy Tractor Times will also feature video and pictures from Binkley & Hurst's Out Back Toy Stores grand opening which included specail guests Bill Walters from Ertl, Dan Myer from Spec-Cast, Joe Ertl owner of Scale Models, The William's Brothers owner of the Big Bud 16V-747, John Harvey from Classic Tractor Fever, Toy Farmer and Toy Tractor Times magazines. 
You will not want to miss the July issue of the Toy Tractor Times. The Toy Tractor Times will bring its members never before seen pictures of the Big Bud 16V-747 from Robert and Randy Williams. Members will be able to see the 16V-747 during its 
construction in the winter of 1977 and its early days in the field at a California cotton farm.
The Toy Tractor Times will also feature the Big Buds 16V-747 at its current home on the William's Brothers Montana Wheat farm. We will look at the wheat harvest and support team of combines and tractors that back up the 16V-747 on the farm.
