Leaders in preserving agricultural history in Crawford County, Ohio: Mike Hoffman, Vocational Agriculture teacher and FFA advisor at Wynford Local Schools; Mike McCracken, president of the Crawford ...

"L'essai malheureux de la second machine de Cugnot en Novembre 1770."(The unfortunate test of Cugnot's second machine in November 1770.)No. 3. Col. Cugnot's military tractor of 1769. No. 5. The "slide ...

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, ...

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 ...

David Ballinger tweaks a 6-volt Wincharger Model 611, part of his Wincharger display at the 2003 Midwest Old Threshers Reunion, Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. "My dad had always wanted to find a Wincharger, so ...

This Tournadozer, also owned by Bolander & Sons and at work on the same job, fills around a culvert as a CGW freight train whizzes by. Farm Collector is supposed to be about farm stuff, right? However ...

Jim Robinson’s (Derby, Conn.) well-preserved and fully functional HE Payloader dating to the early 1950s. The simple curves in the loader arms increased wheel clearance, allowed for larger carry loads ...

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 ...

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 ...

Has anyone ever heard of a hackselmaschine or a schneidelade? How about a straw chopper or a fodder cutter? The hackselmaschine and the schneidelade (I translate them as “chaff cutter” and “chopping ...

This month’s column is a change of pace from tractors and farm equipment. Instead, we’ll take a look at the histoy of anvils. Most early farm shops had an anvil, or at least a chunk of railroad rail ...

Present-day reproductions of the original Zerk fitting as used on Model A Fords and sold by Snyder’s Antique Auto Parts, New Springfield, Ohio. Anyone familiar with machinery of any kind, especially ...