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 ...

Michigan family shares a fraction of their collection of metal tractor seats that lines the walls of their home and business. Welcome to the Barry residence. Pick a favorite seat, but please don’t sit ...

Yorkshireman Malcolm Norris happens to own what is arguably one of the most striking-looking tractors ever to come out of the David Brown stable, namely a David Brown “Thresherman.” The technical name ...

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 ...

We’ve all heard about the legendary meals prepared for threshing crews by farmers’ wives. The tale less often told is of the cook shacks that traveled the route with steam threshing operations. It’s a ...

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 ...

For quite a few years, it’s been my dream to put a hit-and-miss governed engine on a truck frame, with the goal of driving it in thresheree parades. My dream became a reality last year. This project ...

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 ...