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"My toy farm implements were all built from scratch by me," he says, "copied from farm literature."
Afterwards, he sets the literature with the finished product when he displays his works, at home or at a toy show.
Mark Wikner of Cedar Falls, Iowa, uses farm literature to make accurate decals for farm toys.
He is a voracious reader of farm literature, and he gets some of the information that he needs for his decals from that literature.
"Making decals involves a lot of precision, so I need exact information," he says. "I want to make the decal as real as I can."
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Richard Birklid of rural Nome, N.D., collects literature for the information he finds on the pieces. When he writes pieces for the Western Minnesota Steam Thresher's Reunion annual book, sold at the yearly Rollag, Minn., get-together, he searches for old photos and old literature to help him.
"If I pick a tractor like a Flour City, let's say, and I do an article on it, if I get the literature I not only have the accurate information, but I have it right at hand so I don't have to go to somebody else's book," he says. "I'm buying more and more literature because I use it for research."
Clarence Goodburn started collecting literature to find information about his big tractors.
"I had 13 tractors, and I went to swap meets looking for manuals and literature on those tractors," he says. His collection included the entire F-series of McCormick-Deering tractors, as well as rare ones like the O-12, a small Orchard tractor, a W-12, and an I-12.