Implements
Implements
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11/2/2012 11:41:39 AM
Osborne No. 8 reaper eased back-breaking work of harvest.
10/31/2012 4:26:29 PM
Sam Moore talks about mowing with scythes and farm labor economics before mechanization.
8/7/2012 9:25:03 AM
An excerpt from an 1881 issue of Scientific American tells the story of a grain binder trial in Derby, England, where a McComick binder performed well enough to recieve a gold medal.
2/21/2012 9:22:28 AM
John D. Friedly Jr.’s book Cast Iron Implement Seats is the ultimate resource for cast iron seat collectors.
12/22/2011 10:22:42 AM
Dave Braun of Sheboygan, Wis., gives a video tutorial on how a twine knotter on a grain binder works.
12/16/2011 1:29:42 PM
The automatic bale knotter allowed a single man to pick up and bale hay without help
12/15/2011 3:02:57 PM
The mechanical hay press made loose-hay transportation a thing of the past.
10/25/2011 3:48:08 PM
Handmade horse-drawn implements and toy equipment bring horse-drawn farming to life, on a small scale.
6/30/2011 9:29:58 AM
Iowa man J.R. Pearson built The Barns museum around horse-drawn implements, buggies and wagons.
3/31/2011 1:45:38 PM
Planet Jr. founder and inventor S.L. Allen was the power behind the brand of garden cultivators and implements
3/30/2011 4:57:26 PM
The Planet Jr. line of implements was designed for small farmers and home gardeners, but found success everywhere.
1/18/2011 10:25:11 AM
Old farm implements, like haybobs and Vicon acrobats, did the work of tilling the soil and ploughing the land. Yet they are usually forgotten in the story of farming heritage.
1/17/2011 3:22:16 PM
A John Deere Windrower found in perfect condition, with original tires and canvas, after 40-year hiatus.
1/14/2011 4:55:22 PM
Convincing salesmen and farmers the benefits of the Roto-Baler’s round bales was half the battle
1/14/2011 4:51:44 PM
Don Brown is always looking for creative solutions, and his Allis-Chalmers model 10 Roto-Baler put a new spin on hay baling with round bales.
8/31/2010 3:10:41 PM
When it comes to antique farm tools it's not surprising that many remain stubbornly unidentifiable. Do you know what any of these 24 mystery tools were used for?
6/22/2010 9:14:19 AM
A rare chromolithograph ad from the late 1890s shows the Aspinwall Manufacturing Company’s potato planters and potato implements.
5/24/2010 2:26:33 PM
The addition of seats on farm implements was revolutionary and enabled easier and more efficient farming.
5/21/2010 11:27:26 AM
Fast-Hitch implements draw crowds at farm shows even though the system was short lived.
5/20/2010 2:25:31 PM
John Bower bought this horse-drawn 2-row corn planter. "Flying Dutchman No. 2 variable drop" is printed on the seed cans. He is looking for information about it.
4/26/2010 10:19:52 AM
Enthusiast painstakingly restored a circa-1940s IHC No. 15 baling press.
4/8/2010 2:55:37 PM
"When I was a kid, in about 1925, my dad bought a chopper. It had a wood frame, a lawnmower-type cutter with one or two feed rolls, a large flywheel on the side and a lever to stop the rolls if the power got short. ..."
4/8/2010 2:51:22 PM
"The Shafer Historical Museum, Winthrop, Wash., has an old horse-drawn corn planter with no identification on it except for the name 'Roved' on the metal seed canisters. ... We have looked high and low and can’t find any information about this company or model. Any ideas?"
4/8/2010 2:44:19 PM
"For years I have wondered why this old threshing machine feeder house showed Maytag as its manufacturer. ..."
3/30/2010 9:14:11 AM
Acme Hay Harvester Co.-founder Jonathan Haines retained Abraham Lincoln (who was then practicing law) to represent him in several cases.
3/30/2010 9:08:21 AM
At the turn of the century, Acme Co. was a significant player in the Midwest grain belt.
3/25/2010 4:18:07 PM
If you’ve ever spent a hot summer morning weeding a garden, your mind has no doubt wandered to the fact that for all the technological progress of the past 100 years, the only truly effective (chemical free) way to tackle weeds in the garden is through hand-to-hand combat.
3/1/2010 11:53:07 AM
Curtis company documents are a rare find.
3/1/2010 11:28:11 AM
Patented in the 1930s, a Simpson cable weeder turns up in Canada 70 years later.
3/1/2010 11:05:25 AM
Economic and personal misfortunes led to the brief production of the Curtis combine.
2/22/2010 9:55:41 AM
"In November, my boys, Dave and Rick, my 2-year-old grandson, Isaac, and I attended the 'going-out-of-business' auction at Balik Implement, an IH-Case dealership in Spillville, Iowa, that had been in business since 1924. ..."
2/22/2010 9:49:54 AM
The letter from M.F. Moulzolf-Heinen in the February 2010 issue of Farm Collector (“Could this be a spreader?”) generated a large response from readers who unanimously answered “no” to that question. The piece in question is in fact a bluegrass stripper. Many readers have vivid memories of personal experience with just such a piece.
1/19/2010 10:56:28 AM
Did American feed cutters evolve from 18th-century European designs?
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. ..."
10/28/2009 10:25:21 AM
1970s Ford brochure underscores the difference between period technology and today’s machines.
10/26/2009 3:55:50 PM
Horse Progress Days highlights the latest innovations in horse-operated farm machinery and other horse-related products
9/10/2009 2:02:03 PM
With eight Madison-Kipp, Manzel and McCord steam mechanical lubricators in need of repair and reconditioning, a steam enthusiast learns a thing or two.
9/10/2009 1:43:42 PM
Purchasing new-style safety valves requires knowledge of your old boiler. Learn what you need to know before purchasing a valve for a hand-fired boiler.
9/3/2009 2:40:25 PM
A blower engine operated at the Joanna Furnace in the 1800s inspires scale model, which brothers present to the Hay Creek Valley Historical Assn.
8/28/2009 2:49:09 PM
A 22 HP Wood Bros. Engine had a Saxon differential gear in need of repair, so the steam engine’s owner made a free pattern.
8/25/2009 5:02:17 PM
Demand for high-quality steel prompted new metal-working techniques.
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."
7/27/2009 3:07:55 PM
Fox River Tractor Co. shifted into production of ensilage harvesters.
7/27/2009 2:56:06 PM
1974 Fox 6644 corn chopper undergoes a thorough restoration to continue working in the field.
7/27/2009 2:48:04 PM
When Sam Moore was a kid on the farm during the 1940s, his family grew corn, oats, wheat and hay.
7/14/2009 9:53:51 AM
South Dakotan Dave Thompson stays close to his roots with his Sandwich Mfg. Co. collection.
6/30/2009 4:02:19 PM
Threshing in Manitoba in the 1930s and ’40s.
6/30/2009 2:03:00 PM
Binder chores were a breeze compared to previous method.
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 11:26:18 AM
“... the picture shows an Allis-Chalmers semi-mounted PTO-driven side-delivery rake.”
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. ..."
6/16/2009 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 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.”
4/27/2009 2:18:48 PM
Protected from the elements, Gundlach grain drill remains in fine original condition.
4/13/2009 10:58:13 AM
Sam Moore explains the process to make a "chilled" plow.
4/9/2009 11:58:10 AM
To become a "full line" company, Deere & Co. turned to Syracuse Chilled Plow.
2/24/2009 5:21:39 PM
How to check-row plant a field, step by step.
2/24/2009 5:00:12 PM
Check-rowing was a method of planting where each hill of two, three or four seeds was exactly the same distance from adjoining hills.
2/23/2009 10:37:48 AM
Putting the past in perspective: Retired educator puts focus on tractor and implements.
2/23/2009 10:06:20 AM
Participants thresh up a storm at record-setting event.
2/1/2009 12:00:00 AM
'The river was a scene of remarkable animation'
1/30/2009 4:56:36 PM
Adolph Ronning invented John Deere Roll-O-Matic front wheels, patented two automobiles, a tractor truck, the 1-man power road grader used the world over, the jet-propeller popular on today’s watercraft, the stick control for the M46 General Patton tank, automatic automobile headlight dimmer and magnetic door catch – more than 400 patents, half of which were agriculture-related.
1/30/2009 4:32:08 PM
As soon as Roger Dale saw the piece of old machinery abandoned in the trees, he knew it was a ensilage harvester. He also knew it was a type he had never seen before.
1/30/2009 4:15:34 PM
Most Farm Collector readers have heard of Oliver farm equipment and many will agree Oliver plows were among the best on the market during the last half of the 19th and the first half of the 20th centuries. Not too many, however, know much about James Oliver, the Scotsman who started the Oliver Chilled Plow Works.
1/30/2009 3:53:05 PM
Looking for an adventure? Step back in time to the late 19th century at the Miami Valley Steam Threshers show. You’ll see the Calvin family of Radnor, Ohio, with its horse-powered equipment at Past Time Park in Plain City, Ohio, demonstrating how wheat harvesting used to be done.
1/30/2009 3:33:30 PM
There may be more antique sugar beet equipment tucked away on Red River Valley farmsteads in Minnesota and North Dakota than any other place on earth.
1/30/2009 2:45:52 PM
Standing in the shadows of the Scotts Bluff National Monument, one of the most famous landmarks along the old Oregon Trail, the Farm And Ranch Museum in Gering, Neb., is a testament to early settlers who saw the North Platte Valley not just as a route to the West, but also as fertile farm land.
1/30/2009 2:35:33 PM
Collector restores combine for its 50th birthday.
1/29/2009 10:43:18 AM
More than a century ago, ice cut from rivers and ponds was a cash crop.
1/27/2009 3:22:03 PM
Third generation swing plough requires an easy-going team.
12/1/2008 2:37:23 PM
Small square bales are quickly becoming scarce on today’s farms. But while they seem out of place next to 1-ton bales, the small bales were a great improvement over the first bales introduced to the agriculture industry more than 100 years ago.
11/18/2008 4:41:00 PM
Early rakes greatly increased farm productivity.
10/9/2008 11:09:58 AM
Before the Studebaker Corp. made pointy-nosed cars, the company had a long and interesting history as wagon builders.
10/9/2008 10:14:03 AM
Mechanizing the farm: Part 1 of 3 in a series exploring a history of mowers and reapers and their improvements.
9/1/2008 12:00:00 AM
Mowers, cultivators, discs and plows are just a few of the horse-drawn implements in Dave Bromenshenkel's collection.
9/1/2008 12:00:00 AM
Let's Talk Rusty Iron: John Deere's steel plow wasn't the end of innovations in plow moldboards. Inventors had a variety of solutions for dealing with the sticky gumbo soil of Texas, including lubricated and heated plows.
6/1/2008 12:00:00 AM
Indiana collector Allen Adams started with a 1942 CO-OP B-2, and his collection includes many rare Cockshutt and CO-OP tractors.
6/1/2008 12:00:00 AM
Rare International Auto Truck keeps collector up at night
5/1/2008 12:00:00 AM
During the country’s early days the Black Swamp of Ohio made travel and settlement impossible for parts of the state. The Buckeye trencher changed all of that.
8/1/2006 12:00:00 AM
Seats on horse-drawn implements helped boost farm productivity during and after the Civil War.
12/1/2004 12:00:00 AM
Wanted: Gadgets, gizmos & contraptions
11/1/2004 12:00:00 AM
Cuttin' Corn by Hand
11/1/2004 12:00:00 AM
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10/1/2004 12:00:00 AM
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9/1/2004 12:00:00 AM
The old Excelsior company fell upon hard times
9/1/2004 12:00:00 AM
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8/1/2004 12:00:00 AM
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7/1/2004 12:00:00 AM
Vintage cast iron seat collecting is more than a hobby for this Texan – it's his mission.
7/1/2004 12:00:00 AM
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6/1/2004 12:00:00 AM
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5/1/2004 12:00:00 AM
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4/1/2004 12:00:00 AM
In the late 1800s, competition was fierce and windmill companies like Aemotor and Challenge were waging war on each other.
4/1/2004 12:00:00 AM
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3/1/2004 12:00:00 AM
Antique Westinghouse Company threshing machine helps “keep the past alive.”
3/1/2004 12:00:00 AM
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2/1/2004 12:00:00 AM
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1/1/2004 12:00:00 AM
This description from a 1933 McCormick-Deering corn planter operator's manual shows how difficult running a check-row planter could be.
1/1/2004 12:00:00 AM
In this last installment of his history of corn planting technology, Sam Moore examines farmers' use of the check-row wire planter in the large fields of the Corn Belt.
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