Learn about a rare gem of a farm collection in the Isler Farm Museum with its assortment of rare vintage farm equipment.

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 ...

Kenny Read’s John Deere Model D tractor is the oldest Model D known to exist. The Model D line was launched on May 30, 1923. Kansas collector’s John Deere “D for Dependable” model D offered power, ...

Robert Gregory’s Oliver 1755. Robert Gregory’s youth in Pittsylvania County, Virginia, was spent on Oliver tractors. He remembers adapting a 1965 Oliver 1550 by front-mounting a John Deere 2-row ...

Chuck Truesdale with his restored Farmall 340. In November 1996, my wife, Ruth, and I bought a partially restored 1964-1/2 Mustang. We finished the restoration over the winter of 1996-’97. In the fall ...

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 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 ...

Dr. Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel and the “compression engine” he invented. When Caterpillar delivered its new 60 diesel crawler for testing at the University of Nebraska tractor test facility on June ...

“Buck rake” and “bull rake” are a couple of the more common names for an implement officially known as a sweep rake. Developed during the latter half of the 19th century, the first ones were called ...

Allis-Chalmers entered the combine market in May 1931 with purchase of the Advance-Rumely Thresher Co. Rumely’s No. 2 and No. 3 prairie-type combines, with headers ranging from 10 to 20 feet, were ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: A letter to the editor from Clyde Eide, Bryan, Texas, in the August 2017 issue of Farm Collector asked for information on the stone boats once used on the farm. Readers of Farm ...