2011 - Volume #BFS, Issue #11, Page #99
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Where To Buy Tractor Service Manuals
Jensales, 200 Main St., Manchester, Minn. 56007 (800 443-0625; www.jensales.com). Jensales has more than 16,000 manuals available for nearly every tractor made from 1900 to the present. In addition to reproductions, Jensales does offer many originals. There are also compilations of multiple manuals for a line of tractors such as the Oliver 3 that covers 11 models. Binder Books, 27875 SW Grahams Ferry Rd, Sherwood, Ore. 97140 (ph 503 682-9328; www.binderbooks.com). Binder Books specializes in IH tractors and trucks, offering manuals, books, toys, decals and collectibles.
Clarence L. Goodburn, 101 West Main, Madelia, Minn. 56062 (ph 507 642-8481; eBay password: goodlit). Goodburn specializes in sales literature on farm tractors and equipment, crawlers and heavy equipment.
TF Literature Sales, Rt. 2, Box 8, Luverne, Minn. 56156 (ph 507 283-4730; tflitsals@myclearwave.net). TF Literature handles all types of manuals and literature on most brands of farm equipment.
Lloyd Wenger, 831 South College St., P.O. Box 409, Myerstown, Penn. 17067 (ph 717 866-7147; lwenger@wengers.com; www.wengers.com). Go to Collector’s Corner on the Wenger Co. website to find listings of equipment literature, owners manuals, parts books, collectibles, antique tractor parts and more.
Yesterday’s Tractor Co., 751 Commerce Loop, PT Business Park, Port Townsend, Wash. 98368 (ph 360 379-4808; 800 853-2651; www.yesterdaystractor.com). Yesterday’s Tractors offers manuals, parts, engine kits and much, much more, including more than 90,000 tractor pictures.
Floyd County Historical Society, 500 Gilbert St., Charles City, Iowa 50616 (641 228-1099; fch@fiai.net; www.olivertractormanuals.org). Charles City is the birthplace of the first gas-powered tractor, and the museum has original and photocopied manuals for sale for Hart-Parr, Oliver, White Farm Equipment, Cockshutt, Minneapolis-Moline, Cletrac, New Idea (earlier) and some Frost Woods models.
State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Archives Reading Room, 816 State St., Madison, Wis. 53706 (ph 608 264-6460). The Society has a large collection of parts catalogues, photos and operators manuals for virtually all IH implements, wagons and stationary equipment. The collection includes materials from five predecessor companies - McCormick, Deering, Champion, Plano and Milwaukee - as well as other IH subsidiaries (Chattanooga, Hoosier, Keystone, P&O and Weber). Call or send a letter with as much information as possible, such as parts and model number or even a photo.
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