Barn finds make for great stories. Rescues have a slightly different flavor. Such is the rescue story of the only RD6 side-seat with Trailer Patrol known to exist. The town of Fortescue, Missouri, had ...

A “dozen soup plate” disc harrow that’s similar to the one our poet waxes so enthusiastic over. Not long ago, someone asked about the early history of disc harrows. I’d never thought much about it, ...

Jim Robinson’s (Derby, Conn.) well-preserved and fully functional HE Payloader dating to the early 1950s. The simple curves in the loader arms increased wheel clearance, allowed for larger carry loads ...

The New Holland Model 73 automatic pick-up baler was the first self-tying machine of its type to take hay baling to the field. A cut-away display of a Hesston by Massey Ferguson small rectangular ...

A rare Massey-Harris Model 50, a product resulting from the dealer friction caused by the Massey-Harris/Ferguson merger. M-H dealers wanted a tractor like the Ferguson 35, so M-H sheet metal was added ...

Shely fiber breaker. More than 120,000 pounds of hemp fiber was needed to rig the 44-gun USS Constitution, America’s oldest Navy ship affectionately called “Old Ironsides.” Nearly 55 tons of fiber was ...

The use of a pretty face has a long and successful history in the field of commercial art. Here, the image of a sweet country girl is used to market cream separators. In an effort to compete with ...

Dale Hall operating the restored Chevrolet Nutter tractor. Faithful ‘Rusty Iron’ readers may recall that General Motors Co. took a brief and disastrous fling at building farm tractors during the late ...

Note the sign above a doorway of the American Tractor Museum; the word ‘Tractor’ is spelled out using tractor parts. The American Tractor Museum at Perryville, Missouri, population 8,600, is a ...

Ted Delooza, of Penn Yan, N.Y., on the 1970 Cub Cadet Model 106 he restored to use at plow days and for show. Note the raised panel stamped into the hood, and the one-piece fender/footrest that ...

The John Deere Waterloo Boy Model N tractor had a 2-speed transmission, and most had automotive-type steering. It was sold until 1924, when Deere’s Model D was launched. In the early days of power ...

Gil Roberts and his 1913 25-75 HP Gaar-Scott, serial no. 15899. Gil, who lives in Somerset, Va., runs this engine every year at the Somerset Steam and Gas Engine Assn.’s Annual Steam and Gas Pasture ...