May 24, 2022
Carter Tru-Scale miniatures
By: Bill Proft January/February 2020 – Classic Farm and Tractor With only a few issues of Classic Farm and Tractor magazine left to go, I have had to give some […]
BIG changes in equipment crawler cranes
By: Ed Maas Classic Farm and Tractor – January/February 2020 “And…down easy…easy…aaaaaannnd…hold that,” said the man over a two-way radio as he hooked the lifting straps to the crane. He […]
May 16, 2022
JD, then & now
John Deere—then and now For those of you who have read at least some of my stories over the past 5-1/2 years, you are probably aware that I grew up […]
Knudson tractor
Jerome Knudson Built The First Versions Of This Unique Tractor In His Shop By: Gilbert Stuart March/April 2022 The story of the Knudson farm tractors starts with the inventor, Jerome […]
May 3, 2022
Ertl’s New Holland miniatures
In this issue of Classic Farm and Tractor, I am going to cover some of the early New Holland farm toys produced by Ertl. But first, I wanted to share […]
Grain harvesters on the blackland prairie of Texas
Prologue My first real tractor ride was in summer 1950. I was almost four years old. Dad was breaking stubble on my grandad’s place in July. He sewed a five-bushel […]
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February 4, 2022
IH 496 disc harrows
The conventional method of row crop farming in the past was to plow the soil, disc harrow (maybe more than once), possibly spike harrow the ground to smooth it and […]
