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11/19/2009 3:34:14 PM
"Two articles in the September 2009 issue of Farm Collector really struck a chord and brought back fond memories of my early years. ..."
11/19/2009 3:28:44 PM
"In Indiana it’s pretty flat, so if you want to go sledding you’ll have to look hard for a hill or – as we did – just use the pony. ..."
11/19/2009 3:23:41 PM
"Does anyone know the manufacturer of this harrow?"
11/19/2009 3:19:30 PM
"I have also restored a Massey Ferguson 150 and I use it on our family ranch in south Texas. When I found the old girl she had been painted a light gray and was pretty rusted out; the fenders and hood were pretty much gone. But the tractor ran and it was the size that I needed and the price was right. ..."
11/19/2009 3:13:19 PM
"Regarding Paul Short’s letter in the October 2009 issue of Farm Collector, the wrench looks like one we used to turn the adjusting nut on tracks of D7 and D8 Caterpillars. ..."
11/19/2009 3:05:59 PM
"I bought a sulky plow recently and am unable to find a brand or name on it. It has a broken part that I need to replace or repair. It would help if I could find out the brand. ..."
11/19/2009 3:00:56 PM
"Just to follow up on the article on my combine in the January 2009 edition of Farm Collector, I am sending a photo of the John Deere 45 combine working in the field with a couple of new John Deere combines owned by Van Orden Brothers Farms. ..."
11/5/2009 11:53:26 AM
With the passing of Glenn Karch, the gas engine community loses one its finest.
10/27/2009 9:48:56 AM
"I purchased this grain mill head at a yard sale. The seller didn’t know anything about it. ... Any information would be helpful."
10/27/2009 9:24:36 AM
"Always interested in aviation ... My wife and I attend the best of both worlds on Labor Day weekends: the Midwest Old Threshers Reunion in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, and the Antique Airplane Assn. & Airpower Museum Fly-In, west of Ottumwa, Iowa."
10/27/2009 9:15:14 AM
"I spent many hours plowing in the spring on Saturdays and days off from school. The TE-20 would go fast enough with two bottoms to bend a plow point should you hit a stump. My dad slowed me down after about three trips to town to get a plow point straightened at the blacksmith shop."
10/27/2009 9:10:22 AM
"In my youth I remember seeing a small tractor used in gardens and truck patches called Mighty Mite. ..."
10/27/2009 9:06:47 AM
"I think I have the answer for Kevin and Sarah Banks ... GE didn’t make farm equipment, but they did make large portable generators on 4-wheel trailers."
10/27/2009 8:58:36 AM
"I have tried many avenues for finding livestock signs but my best resource has been a long-term advertisement in Farm Collector."
8/26/2009 9:43:15 AM
Eddie Romick found this item stored with mowing implements. Does anyone know what it is?
8/26/2009 9:39:54 AM
“The Sam Moore article on binder work in the August 2009 issue of Farm Collector was of interest and has Mr. Moore’s usual factual accuracy. There were, however, some incorrect photo captions.”
8/26/2009 9:24:34 AM
“I really enjoy every copy of Farm Collector. I wouldn’t think of ever being without it.”
8/26/2009 9:18:20 AM
In an August 2009 Farm Collector article, the caption for the first Farmall Regular sold in row-crop configuration misidentifies part of the tractor.
8/26/2009 9:03:58 AM
“I am trying for find three lamp sockets for my IH tractor panel lamps.”
8/26/2009 8:59:11 AM
What was this wrench used for?
8/6/2009 11:54:35 AM
"We need help figuring out how this horse-powered, sweep-type unit for a hay press/baler works."
8/6/2009 11:48:06 AM
Is there a link between General Equipment and General Electric?
8/6/2009 11:38:28 AM
Looking for fellow wagon shoe collectors.
8/6/2009 11:35:03 AM
"I have some paper collectibles showing a Hickman wagon made in Hickman, Ky., by Hertweck, Baltzer & Co. ... How might one identify a Hickman wagon?"
7/28/2009 5:12:44 PM
Gas engine collector Eugene L. Abernathey, 59, Brandon, Iowa, passed away in April following a sudden illness.
7/28/2009 5:08:54 PM
Gas engine enthusiast Bud Motry passed away April 2008.
6/24/2009 1:33:45 PM
Dwight Brown found this hay baler in a fence row in northeastern Arkansas, but knows very little about it.
6/24/2009 11:36:21 AM
"Does anyone know what this is?"
6/24/2009 11:26:18 AM
“... the picture shows an Allis-Chalmers semi-mounted PTO-driven side-delivery rake.”
6/24/2009 10:51:49 AM
More on the Topeka Hi Way mower, thanks to readers.
6/18/2009 5:03:26 PM
Shared name sparks interest in company, new friendships.
6/18/2009 4:55:49 PM
Farm Collector article sparks memories of logging.
6/18/2009 4:45:51 PM
Looking for information on the D.M. Sechler CGE Co., Moline, Ill.
6/18/2009 4:42:46 PM
"I am trying to restore a No. 30 Syracuse walking plow to original condition. The handles are gone and I am baffled as to how they were anchored. ..."
6/18/2009 4:38:25 PM
"I’ve written to Jim Luke, who wrote a letter to the editor, to tell him that what he has is a seed potato cutter. ..."
6/18/2009 4:31:40 PM
"I’ve been getting Farm Collector for several years but lately I’ve been putting off sending in my renewal. ..."
6/16/2009 11:47:56 AM
“I have just read the April 2009 issue of Farm Collector. Three stories brought back memories. ...”
6/16/2009 11:34:15 AM
Retired farmer creates tractors from sewing machines in spare time.
6/16/2009 11:29:25 AM
Collector would like to hear from others interested in Massey Ferguson tractors.
6/16/2009 11:06:39 AM
Circa-1920s photo shows an old mower, a homemade Model T truck, a Model A and a Canary grass header.
6/16/2009 11:00:14 AM
“I have an engine that I can’t find the make of. ...”
6/16/2009 10:56:46 AM
Response to April 2009's letter about the identity of an old thresher found by members of the Washington-based Lewis-Clark Antique Power Club.
6/16/2009 10:47:25 AM
“Does anyone know who made this? It has a transmission, two forward and one reverse. ...”
6/16/2009 10:44:29 AM
“... I would like to know who made this machine or any information about it.”
6/16/2009 10:30:15 AM
“The picture of a Model A Ford homemade tractor takes me back to World War II days. ...”
6/16/2009 10:21:17 AM
Found 1870s Studebaker Bros. Mfg. Co. wagon warranty while tearing down a farmhouse.
6/9/2009 4:40:16 PM
Here are some photos and specifications for two Ohlsson & Rice Tiny Tiger Model 350 miniature generator sets.
6/9/2009 4:35:13 PM
GEM's youngest subscriber
5/7/2009 4:41:32 PM
Mystery pump info request
5/7/2009 4:37:37 PM
New Idea info request
4/27/2009 4:58:43 PM
I have restored several tractors, but this is the only one that was a “labor of love,” for my dad, the tractor and my siblings.
4/27/2009 3:40:53 PM
I would like to comment on the cover photo of the February 2009 issue. I am not a “correct policeman”; however, I am not aware that the John Deere H ever had an H decal like the one displayed in the picture.
4/27/2009 2:45:47 PM
In one of your summer issues, you had an article about a collection of items used when corn was shucked by hand. It reminded me that when I was 18 ... .
4/1/2009 4:07:45 PM
Gas engine headstone.
4/1/2009 10:51:00 AM
Grandson with a 1915 IHC Tom Thumb.
2/24/2009 4:50:34 PM
"I would like to add my observations of check-row planting, although I did not do the planting: my father did. I cultivated a lot of corn with an Oliver 70 and 2-row cultivator going both ways in checked corn."
2/24/2009 4:43:47 PM
New Yorker restores Allis-Chalmers tractors.
2/24/2009 4:36:24 PM
Anyone have information on this circa-1950s or ’60s lawnmower?
2/24/2009 4:22:24 PM
"A group from our Lewis-Clark Antique Power Club has located some “bones” from an old stationary thresher, but can find no identifying marks. ..."
2/24/2009 4:13:37 PM
"My husband restored this tractor. My grandfather purchased it shortly after World War II in eastern Ohio or western Pennsylvania. ..."
2/24/2009 4:01:42 PM
Looking for information on a Massey Ferguson tractor that appeared in the January 2009 issue.
2/24/2009 3:49:49 PM
"That’s wrong: It’s a sheath. ..."
2/24/2009 3:38:19 PM
"We were excited to read about one of our city’s historical facts in Farm Collector. ..."
1/28/2009 3:44:17 PM
"I await each issue, then consume the stories one at a time each evening."
1/28/2009 3:38:58 PM
Farm Collector brings back some fond memories.
1/28/2009 3:35:25 PM
The Ford 2N was the wartime model.
1/28/2009 3:28:59 PM
Looking for information on the International Harvester Co. Keystone Steel Pony corn sheller.
1/28/2009 2:56:36 PM
Curious about the saw in December 2008's The Memories of a Former Kid cartoon.
1/28/2009 2:50:40 PM
Looking for a color photo or paint information.
1/28/2009 2:37:04 PM
Does anyone have information on refrigerators made by International, Crosley, Allis-Chalmers or Kelvinator?
1/28/2009 2:25:37 PM
"At a tractor show in Brooks, Ore., this 1938 John Deere Model A had these offset wheels. Neither the owner nor anyone around knew anything about it. ..."
1/28/2009 1:33:12 PM
Curious porcelain sign generates questions.
1/22/2009 5:10:42 PM
Young collector buys 5 HP Empire for first hit-and-miss gas engine.
11/21/2008 1:03:29 PM
Here are two pictures of a New Aspinwall potato planter: a close up of the casting on front and of the planter itself.
11/21/2008 12:55:43 PM
Looking for information on a Fastpick Stonepicker Model C, serial number 839, manufactured by Coastal Machine Works, Bridgeport, Conn.
11/14/2008 4:32:25 PM
Scratch-built marine engine sent in by David Williams, 4175 California Ave., Norco, CA 92860.
11/14/2008 4:29:28 PM
Lou Miller's 1915 1-1/2 HP Associated Johnny Boy.
11/14/2008 4:14:56 PM
A bit of background on Delco.
10/2/2008 2:35:48 PM
A Sparkling Discovery July 2006 By Andrew Mackey This adventure started on a miserable but fateful day in February 2005. It was a cool, wet, drizzly day – the kind of day when you just want to go home
10/2/2008 2:06:34 PM
Glass negatives from Cooley Mfg. Co. resurface
4/1/2008 12:00:00 AM
A new kind of show tune
4/1/2008 12:00:00 AM
Mother Nature siezes up a trailer full, hidden piles of old iron in the backyard
2/1/2008 12:00:00 AM
Another valuable tool
2/1/2008 12:00:00 AM
Universal Road Machinery Co., Ruston and Hornsby engines in Iraq, Foos update
12/1/2007 12:00:00 AM
Happy to be here
12/1/2007 12:00:00 AM
Mystery solved, Foos sightings, 4-H, 1914 Bingo, prizewinners
10/1/2007 12:00:00 AM
Engines Online
10/1/2007 12:00:00 AM
Flint and Walling, Northwestern Motor Co. and Sheffield
8/1/2007 12:00:00 AM
Digging for history
8/1/2007 12:00:00 AM
Revisiting 2003, Tulare fun, Dillon Supply Co.
6/1/2007 12:00:00 AM
Hit-and-Miss June 2007 IHC engines As an unapologetic lover of all things IHC, from little LBs to
big Moguls and even IHC trucks (I've owned at least five over the
years, my favorite being the 1952 L112 that I never should have
sold), I'm happy to have the chance to feature a pair of special
IHC engines.
6/1/2007 12:00:00 AM
Hot air engine, New Way, engines from Down Under, Briggs and Stratton
12/1/2006 12:00:00 AM
For the sake of preservation
12/1/2006 12:00:00 AM
Wonder engine, race tractor, sawing wood, In Memoriam
12/1/2004 12:00:00 AM
Restoring horse-drawn equipment in California
12/1/2004 12:00:00 AM
Hit-and-miss column about engine values.
12/1/2004 12:00:00 AM
Line Boring, H.E. Fairman Tractor and Watermelon Threshing?
11/1/2004 12:00:00 AM
Folks reminisce over old farm tools
11/1/2004 12:00:00 AM
The Florida Flywheelers show grounds in Fort Meade was damaged by hurricanes Charley and Frances.
11/1/2004 12:00:00 AM
Upright Maytag, Bates & Edmonds, Stickney, New Holland and Doak
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