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8/26/2010 11:20:16 AM
Sprouts: A place for kids
7/23/2010 2:04:44 PM
Young Iron profile of antique gas engine collector Owen Timberlake, Livermore, ME.
6/21/2010 4:52:18 PM
Farm Collector is headed back to the Midwest Old Threshers Reunion in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa.
6/18/2010 4:23:38 PM
August 2010 Sprouts are pictures from budding artists in Farm Collector reader's families.
5/26/2010 2:51:43 PM
Nate Bowser, Kaylene Chupp, Freeman Detweiler, Rudy Detweiler, Karli Hudson and Randall Mosley.
5/20/2010 10:55:14 AM
The Antique Caterpillar Machinery Owners Club is perserving the legend behind the name.
4/26/2010 10:32:30 AM
Jesse Brandon, Blake Frink, Alex Jacobson, Austin Lott, Avery Lott and Kristina Yoder.
4/12/2010 8:55:39 AM
Readers of a certain age may remember an exercise from their school days known as “diagramming sentences.” The grammatical equivalent of dissecting a frog, the exercise was designed to foster understanding of the various parts of speech. Students labored mightily to produce a graphic representation of a sentence, with the end result sprouting legs that shot off in unexpected directions.
The May 2010 issue of Farm Collector was rather like that for me. I like to think, as we begin work on any given issue, that my hands are firmly on the steering wheel and I know where we’re going. But each day – and each issue – has its own surprises.
3/30/2010 9:28:17 AM
Annie Barnett, Colton Erickson, Jack Furber, Jacob Hersey, Avery Kompelien and Mitchell Newman.
3/9/2010 9:48:16 AM
Young Iron profile of Kevin Lightcap and Joe Alizieri.
3/1/2010 12:14:09 PM
Silas Blough, Ashlyn Conley, Autumn Conley, Nolan Glanzer, Abby Hamman and Janae Jalowitz.
2/16/2010 12:20:29 PM
McCormick Harvester Co. salesman Daniel B. Klopfenstein’s letters home paint picture of international agriculture in the early 1900s.
1/20/2010 9:32:47 AM
Jett Bowers, Dylan Elgin, Hallie Fautt, Parker Fautt, Elena German and Ian Remus.
1/19/2010 10:14:41 AM
Salesman’s letters home paint picture of international agriculture in the early 1900s.
1/11/2010 5:03:18 PM
Even in these frigid temperatures, our old iron hasn’t been forgotten in its hibernation. On Christmas morning, my husband had our WD-45 Allis-Chalmers busting drifts in our driveway. It was my dad’s tractor and has an old homemade blade on the front. The ice under the snow in one spot won out over the tractor tires and the Allis wasn’t going anywhere, so my husband fired up the Case 600 and hooked up both tractors to the chains.
1/8/2010 4:25:32 PM
Let’s talk a little bit about some of the disasters, large and small, that befall tractor collectors.
12/29/2009 1:54:11 PM
Farm Collector readers share their best shots from the 2009 farm show season.
12/29/2009 1:04:23 PM
Farm Collector readers share their best shots from the 2009 farm show season.
12/28/2009 2:42:26 PM
Amy Cunniff, Joe Herbst, Madeline Pinkston, Caleb Stoll, Analise Sutherland and Timothy Yoder.
12/28/2009 2:35:05 PM
Farm Collector readers share their best shots from the 2009 farm show season.
12/28/2009 2:11:19 PM
Clubs set schedules for continuing education programs in 2010.
12/24/2009 11:26:45 AM
Gerald S. Lestz of Lancaster, Pa., passed away Sept. 12, 2009, at the age of 95.
12/17/2009 3:45:29 PM
Jerry Swedberg hopes that teaching kids how to build steam engine models will get them interested in the steam hobby.
12/2/2009 4:32:48 PM
Days grow short; the air is full of flurries. Planted firmly on the wrong side of Thanksgiving, I consider the final page of the wall calendar and wonder, as even prehistoric man must have as he eyed hatch marks on the cave wall, “Where did another year go?”
Nestled in between the holiday hubbub and the dreaded New Year’s resolutions is one of my favorite times of year: the sweet season of remembrance. I like to take stock of everything that’s transpired in the past year, remember the activities of each month and season. What worked? What didn’t? What could do with a bit of tweaking?
11/25/2009 4:36:23 PM
Todd Ashdown, George Bias, Aiden Cusack, Landen Dobbs, Elizabeth Klein and Raelynn Robbins.
11/19/2009 1:15:46 PM
It’s easy to think you’ve seen it all before … easy, that is, until you pick up the December 2009 issue of Farm Collector.
As I survey the contents, my first reaction is like that of the elderly friend I remember from childhood. On hearing something that surprised or shocked, she exclaimed, “Well, I never,” signaling both wonderment and a sudden shortage of words.
11/5/2009 1:47:06 PM
Glenn Karch was recognized world-wide as an authority on the Hercules Gas Engine Co.
10/28/2009 11:58:40 AM
Peter Bartlett, Craig Burgeson, Nicole Burgeson, Autumn Gildersleeve, Kalea Morton and Gabe Nowatzke.
10/28/2009 10:17:31 AM
Raffle winners from the drawings held at the Farm Collector/Gas Engine Magazine tent at the 2009 Midwest Old Threshers Reunion in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa.
10/27/2009 3:56:43 PM
National Early Day Gas Engine & Tractor Assn. recognizes Bob Sherrard's restoration work.
10/26/2009 2:24:02 PM
Austin Flanagan, Callie Frazier, Andrew Jalas, Austin Miller, Katie Roff and Nikky Vogel.
9/30/2009 3:57:31 PM
Molly Meyers, and Autumn, Caleb, Natalie, Nathan and Joshua Tedford.
9/22/2009 4:34:31 PM
As you read this, kids across the country are settling back into familiar classroom routines.
Familiar to them, that is: not so familiar to those of us years separated from lessons in readin’, ’ritin’ and ’rithmatic – and totally alien to those who lived in the era when what we think of as old iron was new.
8/26/2009 5:01:31 PM
This exam was taken from an original 1895 document on file at the Smoky Valley Genealogical Society & Library in Salina, Kan., and reprinted by the Salina Journal.
There is some debate as to whether it was administered to eighth graders as a final examination or to potential teachers.
8/26/2009 3:55:41 PM
Here are a few things to consider before heading out on a tractor trek.
8/26/2009 3:43:04 PM
Check in with the Australian tractor trekkers midway through their trip across America.
8/4/2009 2:03:16 PM
Farm equipment auctions, letters, blogs, photos, product reviews and more
7/27/2009 5:03:31 PM
Katie Bedortha, Evan Lee Thurston, Chad Young Jr., Alexandra Zimmerman, Dalton Zimmerman and Logan Zimmerman.
7/27/2009 12:23:04 PM
A trip to the emergency room prompted a little reflection about the dynamics between husbands and wives when it comes to collecting.
7/2/2009 9:19:29 AM
Looking for a little something to perk up your road trips this summer? Find a museum. The big ones will do nicely, but if you really want to stumble on a funky little collection that captures the pulse of one tiny dot on the map, think small.
6/30/2009 3:02:43 PM
The beginning and end of the line.
6/30/2009 2:43:11 PM
Jerry Mez fulfills his 40-year-old dream with his Farmall-Land museum.
6/24/2009 4:52:22 PM
Nathan Beiler, Tanges Kruse, David Ryan, Michael Ryan, Shania Schaefer and Ryan Tonn.
6/23/2009 1:52:49 PM
Tanner Berg, Wesley Martin, Ryan Nealey, Landon Owens, Grace Williams and Hayden Zimpel.
6/1/2009 1:58:23 PM
Steam traction engines on TV? Could be, at least if the desires of an independent British programming company come to fruition. I've been approached before by would-be TV producers expressing interest in building a show around the subject of old farm equipment, but the few who have contacted me in years past seemed intent on trying to apply the sort of story line used in popular shows like Jesse James' "Monster Garage" to vintage farm equipment. Not much of a fit, if you ask me.
2/2/2009 1:55:46 PM
It’s been a long time coming, and it’s finally here, the new SteamTraction.com web site and a new beginning for an old friend.
10/9/2008 9:42:03 AM
A passion for steam leads to high-pressure museum in Utah.
10/1/2004 12:00:00 AM
2005 Farm Collector Show Directory
10/1/2004 12:00:00 AM
Online Engine conversations from the Stationary Engine List
7/1/2004 12:00:00 AM
Oregon's Steam Fiends and Antique Powerland's shared history stretches over 50 years.
1/1/2004 12:00:00 AM
Southern Engine & Boiler Works steam engine powers restored Wommack Mill in Missouri.
11/1/2003 12:00:00 AM
North Dakota's "little treasure on the prairie" rural heritage museum gives a glimspe at America's past.
7/1/2000 12:00:00 AM
Operating gristmill uses century-old equipment in the Ozarks.
1/1/2000 12:00:00 AM
The weekend retreat for a turn-of-the-century brain surgeon still stands today and has a growing collection of donated antique farm equipment.
10/1/1998 12:00:00 AM
Returning home after years in the big city, the Pioneer Engineer Club's Steam Engine Show serves as a reminder of midwestern heritage to one Indiana native.
5/1/1997 12:00:00 AM
The Henry Ford Museum contains over 30 traction and portable steam engines.
7/1/1979 12:00:00 AM
Steam traction engine tradition carried on to youngsters through a new organization in Great Britain.
1/1/1954 12:00:00 AM
Western Steam Fiends Association's annual meeting included steam threshing, officer elections and boiler advice.