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 ...

A front view of the Thelemann Thieman tractor shows the tubular frame and chrome shrouding normally found on a Ford Model A, the donor of the engine. This brochure touts the Thieman tractor as "A farm ...

The VerHages use this 1977 Deutz D 8006 on the feed cart in their Holstein operation at VerHage Holsteins. Learn how one Michigan family maintains their antique tractor collection in active use as a ...

The use of a pretty face has a long and successful history in the field of commercial art. Here, the image of a sweet country girl is used to market cream separators. In an effort to compete with ...

Threshing was an exciting time for young boys, but hard work for machines, horses and men, and especially for the farm wives who fed the hungry crews. Threshing days banded neighbors together to ...

When this photo was taken in about 1918, this Cletrac was being used as a "plow horse." Note how narrow this Model F (the first Cleveland tractor to carry the Cletrac name) is. In 1918, farmers were ...

In 1915, A.F. Tolasana disgustedly abandoned his brand-new Little Oak tractor in a field near Glascow, Mont. Little did he know then he would sell that very same tractor – out of that same field – 50 ...

Jim Robinson’s (Derby, Conn.) well-preserved and fully functional HE Payloader dating to the early 1950s. The simple curves in the loader arms increased wheel clearance, allowed for larger carry loads ...

This impeccably restored 1958 RJ-58 Ride-Away Junior with sickle bar mower and moldboard plow is the pride and joy of young Christopher Frock. The Ride-Away Senior is one of the most collectible of ...

When Abner D. Baker founded the A.D. Baker Co., Swanton, Ohio, in 1901 (company catalogs said 1900, perhaps to give the company a longer lineage), the era of steam was at its height. Steam traction ...

Scraping snow from the surface of the ice. Ice: Today, we take it for granted as we go to the refrigerator and stick a glass under the chute of the automatic ice cube maker. It wasn’t, of course, ...