See Merve Yoder's extensive collection of vintage farm machines, including a McCormick reaper, a John Deere hay press, and more.
Join Barry Thomas as he explores the history of tractor tester Frederick A. Stobbe and his relationship with Ford, Ferguson, and Jeep.
The new Major was a robust and powerful tractor for the period, and the diesel versions in particular proved massively popular with British farmers. The Fordson Major was first introduced to the ...
I had restored tractors before but didn’t realize I was in for an education when it came to fixing up an Oliver Plowmaster 100. My father had a two-bottom 12-inch Plowmaster 100 that had been waiting ...
For every antique farm equipment enthusiast! Do you have a special place in your heart for the good old days of life on the American farm? Do your ears perk up at the sound of an old Johnny Popper ...
In the 1800’s at the town of Ketchum, Idaho, the Fast Freight Line, owned and operated by Horace Lewis – was in operation. Many freight outfits were in operation. Horace Lewis, ran one of the biggest ...
The Association held its second annual Reunion on August 20-23, 1953 at the Hooks town Grange Fair, Beaver County, Pennsylvania. This year, a greater number of engines was shown than at previous ...
Case Steam Engine No. 1. Traction steam engines were made about 1876. These early models required a team hitched in front for steering. By 1885 this was changed by the use of steering chains wound ...
Threshing in the early 1900’s was a big deal. Wheat fields were large with an abundance of wheat, when the year yielded a good crop. Ernest Fette, Sr. (my father) owned three different types of ...
An early 1900s postcard view of Henry Burden’s water wheel that was, by that time, derelict, having been abandoned in the 1890s. Henry Burden was a prolific inventor, but it was his horseshoe machine ...
This New Holland Model 320 is representative of later, more streamlined hay balers that used an in-line plunger. The New Holland Model 66, introduced in 1953, was the industry's first PTO-powered ...
This issue of the Iron-Men Album brings us to the 10th installment of Dr. Bixler’s history of the Aultman & Taylor Company, as edited by Dr. Robert T. Rhode. The Album is serializing Dr. Bixler’s book ...