Antique Tractor Show: America’s Heartland Series
Paul Ryan visits the annual Antique Farm Exposition in central Washington - one of the many gatherings across the heartland celebrating the rural experience. Visit tinyurl.com to watch the entire episode 418.
Antique John Deere MT Tractor Clearing Brush
Clearing brush with our John Deere MT tractor and Model 40 loader over Easter 2009. More capable than you might think! The recently rebuilt MT runs great and is seeing lots of chore work around our place. 90" sitrex finish mower on 3pt hitch for mowing and it makes an effective counterweight
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Our Old Combine
Hollin farmers Tom and Matthew Davenport show how they use a 1970 International Model 82 combine to harvest an eight acre field of oats at Sky Meadows State Park. This small combine was manufactured for farmers when farms raised diversified crops which included grain. The combine is powered by the power takeoff from the tractor. Matt's grandfather had a combine just like this, but it was sold in the 1990s. Matt found this one (which was better shape than our old one) at a farm equipment auction in 2007 and bought it for 0. Tom demonstrates mowing with a scythe, and shows how a similar tool, the "cradle" was used to cut grain fields. Photos of the cradle are by Stephen Hough from from Springfield-Greene County Library in Springfield, Missouri. The photos are of Elva Hough, who is probably the photographer's grandfather. Excellent pages on thrashing and rural life at thelibrary.springfield.missouri.org
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Antique John Deere Tractors
John Deere tractors all in a row. Tractors from the West Ga 2 Cylinder Club show and ride at Callaway Gardens, Ga. in October 2008.
