The early farm tractors were powered by engines that burned gasoline. As automobiles became popular, the price of gasoline increased and the tractor manufacturers redesigned their engines to burn the ...
If you didn't grow up in farm country, you've probably never seen a Minneapolis Moline UDLX, probably never even heard of it. It enjoys a certain antique mystique among farmers, part of a failed ...
Seventy years ago, a 25-horsepower tractor pulling a two-bottom plow or a small combine took hours, maybe days, to work anything larger than a small field. Today’s monster-sized farm machinery makes ...
Kenny Knight talks about the tractor he used growing up, a 1937 Minneapolis-Moline Z. Knight has been showing tractors at the I&I Tractor Club’s Historic Farm Days in Penfield for years. At his farm ...
Dale had my attention at “G1355". This week while walking the grounds at the 2017 Farm Progress Show in Decatur, IL I met and talked with lots of folks. Too many to count. So much fun. A few ...
A vintage Minneapolis Moline tractor next to a missile suspension system trainer in Hangar 4 at the former Chanute Air Force Basae. A sign that Hangar 4 used to be air-based, not ground-based. James ...