The front of the tractor gives a sense that the machine might be more delicate than it really is. It weighs 2,400 pounds.

Shely fiber breaker. More than 120,000 pounds of hemp fiber was needed to rig the 44-gun USS Constitution, America’s oldest Navy ship affectionately called “Old Ironsides.” Nearly 55 tons of fiber was ...

The use of a pretty face has a long and successful history in the field of commercial art. Here, the image of a sweet country girl is used to market cream separators. In an effort to compete with ...

A late Sherman M4 tank with a high-velocity 76mm main gun guards the Abrams Gate to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York. Robert H. Crawford’s Sherman in 1948 pulling a Fowler deep-digger ...

A front view of the Thelemann Thieman tractor shows the tubular frame and chrome shrouding normally found on a Ford Model A, the donor of the engine. This brochure touts the Thieman tractor as "A farm ...

Ted Delooza, of Penn Yan, N.Y., on the 1970 Cub Cadet Model 106 he restored to use at plow days and for show. Note the raised panel stamped into the hood, and the one-piece fender/footrest that ...

State and county fairs have long been a popular venue for tractor manufacturers to show off the latest and greatest. This Oliver 88 – a 1948 model – came along well after 1937, when the Oliver Farm ...

The arduous task of summer harvest was first undertaken using a primitive cradle, or scythe connected to four to six long wooden ribs that could hold several hand swathings. These were then dropped in ...

A growing number of antique tractors are sporting newly made, Titan-brand tires during the past few years, and some would assume the tires we: made in Yugoslavia, Mexico or some other country where ...

When it comes to lawn work, today’s homeowner barely breaks a sweat. Lawn work has become a highly mechanized activity, complete with self-propelled power lawn mowers, lawn tractors and an endless ...

The tall tailings elevator tossed the straw into an ever-growing pile, while wheat slowly worked its way through the swaying separator’s sieve-filled belly and fell into bags below. Like a threshing ...

When this photo was taken in about 1918, this Cletrac was being used as a "plow horse." Note how narrow this Model F (the first Cleveland tractor to carry the Cletrac name) is. In 1918, farmers were ...