The genius of pioneer inventors can confound us. Countless contraptions that revolutionized farming in the 19th and early ...

Hear from Farm Collector Lead Editor Zach Brown as he discusses his experience at the 2025 Red Power Roundup and the ...

Learn about the iconic Welsh duo of the Fordson "New Performance" Dexta and the Jones Mk. 10 baler that supported the regions ...

Learn about the Aultman & Taylor Manufacturing Company and one of the most successful and iconic tractor they produced, the ...

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 ...

To the farmer, the invention of the tractor was almost as important as the invention of the reaper. It was Cyrus Hall McCormick’s reaper, introduced in 1831, that initiated the power farming era, when ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Hayracks were an essential part of farming and ranching operations until combines replaced threshing machines and hay was switched to bales. The tall ladder-like ends and low sides are designed for ...

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 ...

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 ...