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 ...

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 ...

This circa 1870s advertising chromolithograph for the Champion mowing machine captures the romance, if not the reality, of farming with horses. Note the details in the background: a steam locomotive ...

A rare Massey-Harris Model 50, a product resulting from the dealer friction caused by the Massey-Harris/Ferguson merger. M-H dealers wanted a tractor like the Ferguson 35, so M-H sheet metal was added ...

It’s not a normal occurrence, in the 21st century, to drive past a cornfield and see a farmer combining with a small, orange New Idea Uni-Harvester. But ever since I can remember, my father has been a ...

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 ...

Dr. Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel and the “compression engine” he invented. When Caterpillar delivered its new 60 diesel crawler for testing at the University of Nebraska tractor test facility on June ...

The John Deere Waterloo Boy Model N tractor had a 2-speed transmission, and most had automotive-type steering. It was sold until 1924, when Deere’s Model D was launched. In the early days of power ...

The Selectamatic, owned by Geraint Jones, won the trophy for Best Tractor at the David Brown Tractor Club's 50th anniversary event. Looking at my articles, readers might be mistaken in thinking that ...

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 timeless scene of an old engine in a Welsh meadow. Except that, of course, back in the day, the engine would have been securely fixed to the concrete floor of a barn or engine room, and not ...

This approximately 12hp Southern engine at Wommack Mill was built in about 1900. It has an 8in x 8in bore and stroke. When Wommack Mill’s boiler gave up the ghost a couple of years ago, the 1883 ...