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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Abner D. Baker founded the A.D. Baker Co., Swanton, Ohio, in 1901 (company catalogs said 1900, perhaps to give the company a longer lineage), the era of steam was at its height. Steam traction ...

In 1915, A.F. Tolasana disgustedly abandoned his brand-new Little Oak tractor in a field near Glascow, Mont. Little did he know then he would sell that very same tractor – out of that same field – 50 ...

Early phone lines, even the barbed wire variety, were usually party lines shared by neighbors. In this day of seemingly unlimited telephone service via satellite phones and other modern contraptions, ...

This impeccably restored 1958 RJ-58 Ride-Away Junior with sickle bar mower and moldboard plow is the pride and joy of young Christopher Frock. The Ride-Away Senior is one of the most collectible of ...

Gil Roberts and his 1913 25-75 HP Gaar-Scott, serial no. 15899. Gil, who lives in Somerset, Va., runs this engine every year at the Somerset Steam and Gas Engine Assn.’s Annual Steam and Gas Pasture ...