The hobby of collecting and restoring antique farm tractors is a quiet but busy adventure filled with hard work disguised as fun, just like most things agricultural. Charles Meier has had so much fun ...
DUNKERTON, Iowa --- Kenny Kass' antique tractors and engines had agriculture engineers drooling. Not because of the technological innovations they could glean from the ancient iron work horses, but ...
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Old tractors have enjoyed a resurgence in recent years, as nostalgic farmers retrieve these old tractors and restore them to showroom condition. Showing off old tractors is fun ...
Townie summer is about to begin, but first is a weekend of celebrations. With Indiana University graduation Friday and Saturday and Mother's Day on Sunday, you might have enough planned, but ...
There were beastly burdens aplenty on the Steed farm, and beasts of burden to handle them. Larry Steed's granddad was a sworn mule man. From sunup to sundown, he'd guide his plow as the team plodded ...
Under a stand of tall pines along U.S. Hwy. 411 between Moody and Odenville is a colorful display of antique tractors dating back to the 1930′s. All have been meticulously restored, most from the ...
Minnesota’s Star Tribune reports that farmers are flocking to 40-year-old tractors at auctions. The appeal is twofold: While classic tractors are cheaper to maintain, simpler to use, and much simpler ...
Mechanical dinosaurs stretched their legs southwest of Worden over the weekend entertaining folks young and old. The antique farm machinery lacked power and speed but once again performed their ...
Ray Miedema knows a thing or two about tractor pulls. He ought to - he used to do 26 of them a year. He has only done three tractor pulls this year, but Miedema will add another event to the list when ...
Don Schinstock saved his first tractor 30 years ago, pulling the old John Deere from a pile of weeds near Halstead. “Between me and my son-in-law, we took every bolt out and painted it,” he said.