Popeye Vertefeuille moved through a roped-off area at the Brooklyn Fair on Aug. 27. He was doing what he’s been doing for the last 10 years at the fair, working a collection of gas engines that ...

What’s a DoodleBug? It’s a poor man’s improvisational tractor, usually made from an old Ford. A really old Ford, like 1932 or older. During the Great Depression, when no one had any money, one of the ...

What started as a piece of old farm equipment set next to a windmill has turned into an impressive collection of mule-driven and steel-wheel farm equipment in Gastonburg. Claude Strother has been ...

BLACKFOOT, Idaho — Ken Tuck spends his free time much as he did in high school — tinkering in his shop with his best friend, Tony Rushin. Only back when they were younger, they built hot rods.

Agriculture in Wisconsin was undergoing a mechanized revolution in the 1920s that would extend into the 1950s. It was a revolution that had farmers converting from draft horse field operations to a ...

Of the more than 200 manufacturers of agricultural implements in the U. S., the greatest by far is the International Harvester Co. Another, far smaller, far less staunch, is the Advance-Rumely Co.

ALTA VISTA — A few years after farmer Everett Zimmerman retired in the mid-1990s, he began collecting anything that preserved the agricultural heritage of Kansas. Within five years, he and his wife, ...

For more than 50 years, drivers coming to Waunakee from the east on Hwy. 19 have been greeted by Carl F. Statz & Sons, Inc., the farm implement, lawn and garden equipment and recreational vehicle ...