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 1948 E27N in lovely original condition belonging to collector Ross Bartlett. This tractor features a period lighting set. Henry Ford’s first successful tractor was what we now know as the Fordson ...

In 1949, Jabez Love was selling his row crop tractor with a 3-point hydraulic implement lift. The tractor embodied 17 years of design innovations. Today, Jabez is remembered by a few collectors who ...

Note the sign above a doorway of the American Tractor Museum; the word ‘Tractor’ is spelled out using tractor parts. The American Tractor Museum at Perryville, Missouri, population 8,600, is a ...

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 ...

Far right: large dibbers used to plant corn, beans and any of the larger vegetable seeds. To the left of the dibbers are the potato forks and sifters. The balls on the ends of the tines eliminate ...

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 ...

3An article of mine in the October 2022 issue of Farm Collector focused on how loaded farm trucks were a “block in the road” due to their slow travel. An explanation is necessary to define the ...

Before a crowd of farmers and businessmen who’d invested in a sugar beet refinery, this farmer uses what appears to be a horse-drawn side lifter beet harvester. In The Beet-Sugar Industry in 1920, ...

This “automobile” mouse trap was awarded a patent in 1903. How many kinds of mouse traps can there be? Meet this New York professor and antique mouse trap collector with a collection that showcases a ...

A junior-size press like this would have been capable of producing up to 150 gallons of apple juice per day. When retired high school teacher Joe Wurth learned of a vintage cider press tucked away in ...

Whether a barn was of conventional design or not, if it was built after 1867 chances were good that it included at least one feature from the Louden Machinery Company, Fairfield, Iowa. Specializing in ...