From the beginning, in the late 1960s, Dan Pakosh was building grain augers, drawbars and field sprayers under the family brand name, Versatile.

Credited with being the first company to mass produce 4WD farm tractors, Dan thought that a market existed for a multipurpose tractor that could be operated bidirectionally. Surely the world was ready for such an innovation!

Since the tractor could be used to either push or pull an implement, it was marketed as being “a number of self-propelled machines in one”. The concept was an immediate success. With 4WD and a switchable operator’s platform, bi-directional tractors had arrived!

20 years later, when Versatile was sold to Ford-New Holland, the design engineers at New Holland brought Dan Pakosh out of retirement to help them modernize the bidirectional tractor, taking it forward into the next century. The result was the New Holland TV-140.

Dan Pakosh was an integral part of Versatile's success!