William O’Sullivan ploughing with his horses, Daisy and Paul, with Macgillycuddy’s Reeks looming in the background. Learn how one Irishman keeps the tradition of horse-drawn farm equipment alive with ...
This issue of the Iron-Men Album brings us to the 10th installment of Dr. Bixler’s history of the Aultman & Taylor Company, as edited by Dr. Robert T. Rhode. The Album is serializing Dr. Bixler’s book ...
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 hedge fencerow in summer. Hedge trees are armed with wicked thorns that deter contact. One winter in the early 1940s, my father decided that an 80-rod hedge row needed “harvesting” for fence posts ...
The VerHages use this 1977 Deutz D 8006 on the feed cart in their Holstein operation at VerHage Holsteins. Learn how one Michigan family maintains their antique tractor collection in active use as a ...
Top: A Defiance claw hammer, one of five offered. Bottom: A machinist’s hammer, one of four offered. Both have the original paper Defiance label. Two 10-inch wrenches. The wrench labeled by Defiance ...
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 ...
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 ...
A Smith Harvestore metal silo on the Herron Farm in Columbiana County, Ohio, that appears to be still in use. One of the few remaining wood stave silos, this one is found on the farm of Theresa Hinton ...
The Allis-Chalmers HD-11 diesel crawler is shown in this 1957 photo with a hydraulic dozer blade. This mid-sized crawler was built from 1955 to 1970, and was one of the first to introduce the ...
A Challenge Vaneless Model 1913 with a 10-foot wheel. Governing on the Challenge Vaneless is on the weighted-lever principle: Individual sections of wooden blades automatically pivot away from ...
June is National Dairy Month so here’s a cow story from the December 15, 1930, issue of Farm Machinery and Equipment magazine.