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Rural heritage memorabilia featuring the timeless art of Richard Sabol. A long-time fixture on the farm show circuit in Northeast America, New Hampshire native Richard Sabol has delighted thousands with his realistic impressions of rural scenes and our beloved farm implements. We are proud to now offer memorabilia featuring his amazing sketches.

Image on this mug shows a Model T Ford with various engines out in a field.

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New Music Inspired by Poems from The Iron-Man Album

Before gas tractors plowed the fields, steam traction engines ruled the prairie. Now, the glory days of steam farming live on through the words of the men and women who experienced them firsthand.

Twelve poems, originally submitted to Iron Men Album back in the 1950s, have been unearthed and set to original music by folk musician and Gas Engine Magazine (Farm Collector) editor Christian Williams on this new audio CD. To give the album an old-time American feel, Williams used instruments unique to American folk music, including banjo, washtub bass, steel resonator guitar and autoharp. Listen to Smoke on the Prairie, one of the songs in this unique music CD.

“Lesser musicians would've have given us a tepid collection of by-the-numbers ‘folk’ songs. Not Christian. As always, he's written and performed all the music on this collection, but it's his heart that makes sure that these songs sparkle with individual brilliance. Each one of these numbers has its own feel and style. Yes, Mr. Williams mines the rich veins folk, roots music and proto-country but the end results have a vibrancy and life most artists can't achieve.”

-Sepiachord.com

This is a first-hand account of early American farming, let the words and music take you back to a time when steam was king.

Track listing:

• Dreaming of Steam
• Vanished Days
• On the Farm
• Haywire Sawmill
• Charlie and His Case
• Threshing Crew
• The Lazy Farmer
• Good Old Russell
• Village Blacksmith
• Smoke on the Prairie
• My Old Steam Engine
• Death of a Steam Man

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This conversation with one of the pre-eminent figures in farm tractor history features insights that could only be learned from being there. Harold Brock worked intimately with Henry Ford, Edsel Ford and Henry Ford Jr. He personally met Thomas Edison, Harry Ferguson and many other legends of modern invention and industry.

In this DVD, Harold talks about his days as a youth at the Ford Apprentice School and how that led to meeting and working with Henry Ford and being brought into the small engineering department shepherded by Mr. Ford. The conversation covers how Ford met Harry Ferguson and, perhaps more importantly, how the Ford design team ultimately dealt with Ferguson. Time is also spent talking about the history of Ford Motor Company and some of the key players like “Cast Iron” Charlie Sorensen, Eugene Farkas, George Sherman and other key engineers at Ford.

At 113 minutes, this DVD is almost two hours long, with supporting images from the N-News archives. The DVD includes a slideshow of additional Ford-related photos collected over the years. This is an excellent opportunity to hear about the historic development of the Ford N series tractors from a man who was at the center of it all.

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Celebrate the rich heritage of International Harvester in this Special Collector's Edition from Farm Collector. Featuring more than 30 articles about the great tractors, engines, equipment and implements that made International Harvester famous, IHC Heritage is a glossy-paged guide that is rich in history, facts, entertaining stories, photographs and more.

Organized into three categories - tractors and gas engines, implements and equipment, collections and memorabilia - this guide covers everything from a 1909 vertical engine to 1950 Farmall Cubs, from McCormick-Deering to a rare International Auto Truck. Readers will recognize familiar names such as Sam Moore, Bill Vossler and Oscar H. Will III as they recount the history of International and the machines that made the name famous.

Articles include:

• Proud Survivor: 1909 Type A is one of the oldest running gas tractors in the U.S.
• Titans of the Turf: Garden tractors were built to last.
• The First Reaper: The beginning of farm mechanization.
• Loading the Haymow: Putting up hay with McCormick-Deering.
• Keeping the Dream Alive: Iowa museum 40 years in the making.
• Putting the Classics to Work: Collector uses "old red" equipment on the farm.

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Own all three of Farm Collector's Special Collector Edition guides in one special set. Try to identify 14 unique farm tools with Field Guide to Mystery Farm Tools. Read more than 35 of Sam Moore's "Let's Talk Rusty Iron" articles in Harvesting Heritage: 150 Years on the American Farm. Or admire the machines that made International Harvester famous in IHC Heritage.

Field Guide to Mystery Farm Tools
If you like the "What Is It?" section in each issue of Farm Collector, you're going to love this special edition dedicated solely to mystery tools from farm country. Packed with super photos, patent drawings and collector resources, it's a jim-dandy for anybody interested in antique farm equipment.

Harvesting Heritage
As a student of the past, Sam Moore learned his lessons well. Paying careful attention to instructions from his elders, he not only learned the old ways but gained a full appreciation for them. Deeply researched and beautifully written, Moore's essays recapture a time irretrievably lost - but easily glimpsed through the pages of this exciting edition.

IHC Heritage
Celebrate the rich heritage of International Harvester in this Special Collector's Edition. From Cyrus McCormick and William Deering to the iconic Farmall Regular and immortal Cub Cadet, this special issue explores the history and culture of IHC in its many varieties. IHC Heritage covers it all, including family stories, early prototypes, history, tractors, engines, reapers and much more.

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Keep your copies of Farm Collector in perfect shape when you store them in these easy-to-use binders. Designed to hold a year's worth of issues, they'll make reference and storage a snap. Red vinyl with white type, the binder comes with 12 flexible strips to hold each issue in place without damaging it.