Displaying his tractors at the State Fair of West Virginia is a tradition for Alex Arbuckle. “I started in 1950,” recalls Arbuckle, owner of Greenbrier Tractor Sales Inc. located on Rt. 219 north of ...
By the 1950s, the self-propelled combine harvester began gaining traction. Even so, many farmers still picked ear corn, stored it in cribs and processed it through portable belt-driven shellers. The ...
Focusing on the era from 1929 through 1959, Tractor Wars II, the next installment in Iowa PBS’s Tractor Wars series, premieres Monday, March 2 at 7 p.m. It ...
2018 is the Year of the Tractor at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History and this 1918 Waterloo Boy, one of the first tractors with a combustion engine, just went on exhibit.
Broken down and covered in thick layers of dust and grime, it lay forgotten in a shed for 20 years. However, while most of his family ignored the tractor sitting in a far corner of the storage unit, ...