Learn how one Michigan family maintains their antique tractor collection in active use as a way of preserving their legacy and traditions. Some antique tractors are trailer queens. Others, in their ...

Learn about Pastime Maytag washer history facts, the story behind Maytag’s first clothes washer, and the company’s eventual industry dominance showcasing American ingenuity and innovation. Over the ...

Henry Ford would have had a field day at the 2023 Ford/Fordson Collectors Assn. (FFCA) national show held in conjunction with the Southern Indiana Antique Machinery Classic Iron Show in Evansville in ...

The history of the world would look far different if it weren’t for the blacksmith industry, which historians say began in the Iron Age, about 1200 B.C. In that era, iron began replacing bronze in ...

Explore American windmill history with Bob Emick, a Colorado rancher who rebuilt the towering Eclipse windmill pictured here in 1880. It is interesting what triggers a person’s passion to collect and ...

When retired high school teacher Joe Wurth learned of a vintage cider press tucked away in a barn in his hometown of Marcus, Iowa, he couldn’t have imagined where the history of the piece would take ...

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 build hundreds of thousands of light trucks that could go ...

Let me start by saying that I am not an expert on horses. I have ridden saddle horses and, as a kid, drove a hay wagon pulled by a team of horses. Nevertheless, although my heart and interests lie ...

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 ...

From the time Hart-Parr began building tractors (a word said to have been coined by a Hart-Parr sales manager, who found it smoother on the tongue than “traction engines”), the company’s tractors were ...

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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 ...