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 ...

The New Holland Model 73 automatic pick-up baler was the first self-tying machine of its type to take hay baling to the field. A cut-away display of a Hesston by Massey Ferguson small rectangular ...

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 ...

No. 9 McCormick-Deering mowers were very popular in the northern plains states and are a popular working relic for horse enthusiasts. When McCormick and Deering first merged, some of the new company's ...

This 17th century engraving shows a gang sash mill powered by a water wheel (E) that drives a wooden gear (F) and crank (C). The weights (A) around pulleys (B) pull the timber into the saw blades.

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 ...

A planter check head showing how (assuming the planter is moving from right to left), as the wire slides through the fork (b), the button in the wire (a) catches the fork and pulls it to the rear, ...

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 ...

The Great Depression that caused so much trouble in the world during the 1930s ended only with the boom caused by World War II. For American farmers however, the downturn began shortly after World War ...