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 ...

Barn finds make for great stories. Rescues have a slightly different flavor. Such is the rescue story of the only RD6 side-seat with Trailer Patrol known to exist. The town of Fortescue, Missouri, had ...

A “dozen soup plate” disc harrow that’s similar to the one our poet waxes so enthusiastic over. Not long ago, someone asked about the early history of disc harrows. I’d never thought much about it, ...

This John Blue Co. G-1000 tractor was priced at $10,250. Well, a while back, I bought another tractor, even though I had planned to cut back my collection. I found this one by accident while driving ...

When it comes to lawn work, today’s homeowner barely breaks a sweat. Lawn work has become a highly mechanized activity, complete with self-propelled power lawn mowers, lawn tractors and an endless ...

An early 1900s postcard view of Henry Burden’s water wheel that was, by that time, derelict, having been abandoned in the 1890s. Henry Burden was a prolific inventor, but it was his horseshoe machine ...

Farm applications were just a few of the ways the Willys marketing department envisioned Jeeps in use in the post-war 1940s. Illustrations in this 1946 ad present the Jeep as a freight hauler, ...

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 ...

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 ...

William Galloway was a big name (at least in the Midwest) in the farm implement field during the first two decades of the 20th century. Galloway was born in 1877 on a farm near Berlin, Iowa, attended ...

Before the advent of self-oiling systems, oiling the windmill was a necessary but spine-tingling chore. Here, a selection of windmills typical of the offering available a century ago from the Emick ...

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 ...