This 1902 advertisement from The Ohio Farmer indicates that John Deere-built plows have been the standard quality for 65 years. Collecting vintage farm tractors and equipment remains a popular hobby.

Countless contraptions that revolutionized farming in the 19th and early 20th centuries have become contemporary curiosities or even mysteries. Here are six sent in by readers. Do you know what they ...

The Field Marshall range of tractors, made by Marshall, Sons & Co. of Gainsborough, England, began in 1945. The tractors featured a stylish design of tinwork painted a smart Brunswick Green. Peter ...

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 wooden cylinder churn shown in a 1928 Milk and Egg Producers catalog put out by Moore Brothers, Albany, N.Y. Today I was making a sandwich for lunch. Upon opening the butter dish I found a neat, ...

This One Minute grain grader and cleaner was made in Newton, Iowa, and came with a removable hand crank so the machine could be powered with a special drive attachment. The end view of the Viking mill ...

Engine exhaust on all but very early production Regulars was routed down through a small cast iron muffler. The combination manifold routed hot exhaust over the intake passages, which warmed the ...

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 ...

So, What Is an Indicator and How Does It Work? The indicator simply records, on a piece of paper, the pressure in one end of a steam cylinder as the piston of the engine moves from one end of its ...

A late Sherman M4 tank with a high-velocity 76mm main gun guards the Abrams Gate to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York. Robert H. Crawford’s Sherman in 1948 pulling a Fowler deep-digger ...

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 ...

Edward Rumely, the man who brought the company into the modern age, encouraged development of the popular OilPull tractor line. A mighty Rumely 30-60 Oilpull Tractor gains fame for the company as it ...