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 ...

1947 Whizzer 150cc side valve. By the time I was 13 or 14, after owning a battered used bike or two, I’d managed to buy a fancy new bicycle, a red Monarch with a headlight, horn and sprung front fork, ...

This New Holland Model 320 is representative of later, more streamlined hay balers that used an in-line plunger. The New Holland Model 66, introduced in 1953, was the industry's first PTO-powered ...

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 ...

Ted Delooza, of Penn Yan, N.Y., on the 1970 Cub Cadet Model 106 he restored to use at plow days and for show. Note the raised panel stamped into the hood, and the one-piece fender/footrest that ...

The Great Depression that caused so much trouble in the world during the 1930s ended only with the boom caused by World War II. For American farmers however, the downturn began shortly after World War ...

Dennis Rinehart’s 1939 Ford 9N (Serial No. 8235). The Ford 9N, the Ferguson 3-point system and the brilliant mind of a production executive left a lasting mark on the Willys-Overland farm jeep. My ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Field Marshall range of tractors, made by Marshall, Sons & Co. of Gainsborough, England, began in 1945. The tractors featured a stylish design of tinwork painted a smart Brunswick Green. Peter ...

Some of the crew that helped salvage and restore the steam engine (from left): Gene Zopfi, George Benson, Ted McNamara, Kurt Eiden, Art Job and Bob Tollefson. The 1916 Avery 16 hp steam traction ...

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 ...