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 ...
A World War I British Army truck powers its way through battlefield mud in an artist’s conception of the first mass-produced four-wheel drive vehicle. Orders for hundreds of these trucks put the ...
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 ...
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 ...
It was an overcast, dreary Saturday, with an occasional shower. But that didn’t hamper the enthusiasm of more than 50 neighbors and friends who gathered at the Carol and David Baker farm just south of ...
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 ...
A hedge fencerow in summer. Hedge trees are armed with wicked thorns that deter contact. One winter in the early 1940s, my father decided that an 80-rod hedge row needed “harvesting” for fence posts ...
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 ...
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 ...
State and county fairs have long been a popular venue for tractor manufacturers to show off the latest and greatest. This Oliver 88 – a 1948 model – came along well after 1937, when the Oliver Farm ...
The John Deere Waterloo Boy Model N tractor had a 2-speed transmission, and most had automotive-type steering. It was sold until 1924, when Deere’s Model D was launched. In the early days of power ...
The Selectamatic, owned by Geraint Jones, won the trophy for Best Tractor at the David Brown Tractor Club's 50th anniversary event. Looking at my articles, readers might be mistaken in thinking that ...