I'll stick with my 895 versatile. Knowing I don't have a bunch of ujoints and ball joints behind the wheels that would be a pain to replace.

Those hats are straight out of the costume department for Dallas

A designer can convince themselves of anything

Great video. Thank You for posting. My family has owned 94 series 4wds 1986 thru today. I was there in phoenix in 1984. The event was held at Goodyear farms. Very familiar with all aspects of the design and known service issues, none of which are mentioned in the above posts. I agree there is no tremendous advantage of 4 wheel steering, outside of steep hills/crab steer, but they are simply unique. The 4994 only sold 224 units based on 3 factors. 1) the farm economy in the mid 1980s was a low point, 2) Scania V8 engines while widely accepted in western europe but were an unknown engine in the US and 3) the fact that 400hp tractors were still a very narrow slice of the market demand 37 years ago. I am currently looking for a 4994 to buy or restore. please contact me if you have one for sale.

God i miss these, that tractor is like a core childhood memory good bad or ugly. Say what you will but they were the nicest looking unit of that era.

My dad, another local farmer and the Case salesman were there in Phoenix in 1984 for the 4WD introduction. Cool to see this video.

Yes but you could square dance in the cab of those Massey’s

Those 94 series 4wds were awesome units, great runners except when they had electrical issues it could make a man want to kill himself

Were they giving away straw hats?!

Ironically within about 5 years after Tenneco bought IH's farm equipment these Case tractors would be history

Aaaaand guess who is no longer made

Funny how they compare themselves to stinger and claim to be so much better and then there next move was to buy Steiger and use normal pi opt steering

If they are so great then why did Case stop making them.

Ya funny that now years later I don’t see a single one of these tractors in a yard. But u do see most of the others on this video

Some times it's nice to stick to a color so you can keep life more simple I like to look at what is going to break how often and how much is it going to cost time and money

I suspect these went the way of the DODO because of cost. It's got to be cheaper to build a center pin articulated tractor than to have 2 steering axles.

It’s funny watching this now, knowing that 2 years later Case bought Steiger and then discontinued their rigid frame 4wd tractors not to be seen again until I think the 9240/9260 in 1990?

The Scania V8 was a good engine but nobody really knew much about them in the States, so they didn't catch on too well. I prefer Cummins over it, though. These Case tractors had so many issues when they were built so I think I'll stick with my Versatile 895. There's a reason you don't see John Deere or Case IH coming out with big crab steer tractors like these anymore...

Versatile D145, 850, and 875. We’ll stick with them. Best things ever made.

But, those ball joints, knuckles, and balls wear out fast always in the dirt. Give me a Versatile any day.

If the 4 wheel steer was so good then y did go to artiulating tractor

PowerShift was on JD 4020 's back in the late 1960's. That steering had company Schüler on there TV series. It was good bud to expensive and maybe kind of overbuild for its time. World wide issues in farming was also a point of :"Let I'd be!" I'm maybe wrong, tell about.

Case didn't buy Steiger because the non articulated were selling. This didn't age well!!! Lol

That Crab drive was the real deal back in the day can see why case was ahead in 4wd tractors