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Learn how one Michigan family maintains their antique tractor collection in active use as a way of preserving their legacy and traditions.
Minnesota Prisoners Once Built Farm Machinery Let's Talk Rusty Iron: A program at a Stillwater Minn. prison allowed inmates to learn skills and earn money by building Minnesota farm equipment.
Remembering the time when a radio was considered a frivolous waste of time and money because, on the farm, early pickups were tools — not toys.
Collector uncovers the history of this vintage cider press purchased by Civil War veteran to use on his Iowa homestead. See this antique fruit press restored!
The State Department expressed an interest in the tests, believing the use of jeeps in farm work could help improve the agricultural productivity of liberated countries until such time as tractor ...
A hedge fencerow in summer. Hedge trees are armed with wicked thorns that deter contact. One winter in the early 1940s, my father decided that an 80-rod hedge row needed “harvesting” for fence posts ...
The Colorful History of Oliver Tractors Launch of the Model 70 inspired contests where farmers “voted” for their favorite tractor color scheme.
Restored MH 20 is a tractor drive favorite Read about one reader’s Massey-Harris 20, which has been driven 5,000 miles since being restored in 2006.
This Welsh restorer strives for perfection when returning this 1967 tractor to its former glory. See how this David Brown Selectamatic 880 was restored.
One of the more famous names among rusty iron enthusiasts is that of the Hart-Parr Co., which has more than one claim to fame. Hart-Parr built the first practical internal combustion tractor engine, ...
Look back on harvesting in the 1800s and see what equipment and people were necessary to get the job done.
The Farm Jeep, a low-cost alternative to the tractor couldn’t cut it on the farm mostly because of its light weight, weak drive train and cost.