The way it was in the spring of 1939
In March 1939, I was still five months away from my sixth birthday and one more from my first year in a one-room country...
Ohio Manufacturing Company built early tractors
One of the early tractor builders in Ohio was the Ohio Manufacturing Company in Upper Sandusky. In 1899, Samuel S. Morton built a crude tractor in York, Pa., with a large, horizontal, one-cylinder, hopper-cooled Otto engine mounted on a relatively, for the time, light-weight chassis with a short wheelbase.
Reversing roles made this man think twice
Check out Sam Moore's story of a husband and wife swapping roles, and the unexpected outcome.
Remembering the bigger, better IHC Mogul
To start off 2012, here's the story of a tractor that was bright and shiny and new 100 years ago. The International Harvester Company introduced the International Mogul 12-25 — its first lightweight tractor — in 1912. Even though the Mogul 12-25 weighed almost 5 tons, it was a whole lot lighter than the huge, clumsy machines that IHC had been building up until then.
The way it was when engines were young
One hundred years ago gas engines and tractors were still pretty new, and most people didn't know what made them go when they ran, or what made them stop when they quit.
Auctions offer wild-card opportunities
Sam Moore shares a story Kate Sanborn (1839-1917), a teacher, lecturer and writer, wrote in 1891 of her experiences attending auctions.
The history of John Deere is long and windy
Although they’d been reluctant to dive into the budding gasoline tractor business, there was increasing pressure from Deere’s branch houses and dealers, who wanted a tractor to sell.
Deere & Company weathered Great Depression
Not too many of we oldtimers are still around who can say that we lived through the Great Depression of the early 1930s.
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Allis Chalmers’ roots stretch to 1847
Allis-Chalmers (the name wasn't adopted until 1901) was an old company when tractors came along, having begun in 1847 as Decker & Seville to manufacture buhr mills in Milwaukee.
Pioneer corn shuckin’ was a jolly good time
I found a book online titled: Canton: Its Pioneers and History. A Contribution To The History Of Fulton County, by Alonzo M. Swan, that was published in 1871.
