Gadgets for Garden Tractors
Brinly-Hardy’s little implements still in big demand
By Oscar H. Will III
When John Brinly set up his Simpsonville, Ky., blacksmith shop around 1800, he couldn’t have imagined that his legacy would include highly sought-after garden tractor collectibles 200 years later. Nor could his son, Thomas E.C. Brinly, have imagined that the steel plow he fashioned from an old saw blade in 1837 would set the stage for a 165-year-long plow-making run. And neither man could have imagined a business in 2006 devoted almost exclusively to building implements and attachments designed for the suburban homeowner’s lawn and garden. But that’s exactly what the Brinly-Hardy Co. (which remains privately held) excels at today.