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

Model 100-20 B.H.P. Steam Generator and four cylinder uniflow engine. 8125 State Street, South Gate, Calif. It has been ten years since I first announced my Uniflow Steam Engine. Since then I have ...

In the days before mechanization, when workers cut hay and grain crops by hand using scythes, it was necessary to stop at regular intervals to sharpen the scythe blades. When small whetstones ...

This Pastime washer, showing the firstvariant construction, is in remarkablygood original condition. Learn about Pastime Maytag washer history facts, the story behind Maytag’s first clothes washer, ...

Aled Jones and his son Dyfan on the tractor. “He loves having a sit on the Fergie,” Aled says. In my work as a “rural heritage journalist” (a term which is rather “bigging up” my work, as really all I ...

3An article of mine in the October 2022 issue of Farm Collector focused on how loaded farm trucks were a “block in the road” due to their slow travel. An explanation is necessary to define the ...

A 1963 CJ5 equipped with a 1946 Newgren hydraulic lift. Eighty years ago, a new kind of vehicle drove into the world. Months before the U.S. entered into World War II, military leaders had a plan to ...

A rare Massey-Harris Model 50, a product resulting from the dealer friction caused by the Massey-Harris/Ferguson merger. M-H dealers wanted a tractor like the Ferguson 35, so M-H sheet metal was added ...

It’s not a normal occurrence, in the 21st century, to drive past a cornfield and see a farmer combining with a small, orange New Idea Uni-Harvester. But ever since I can remember, my father has been a ...

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 ...

“Buck rake” and “bull rake” are a couple of the more common names for an implement officially known as a sweep rake. Developed during the latter half of the 19th century, the first ones were called ...

A free exposition for local industries and natural resources at the Winnipeg Industrial Bureau building drew a crowd in 1919. Tractors were rated there through 1913. Canada was the initial focal point ...