Sampling Of Stories Featured in the Current Issue of FARM SHOW Magazine:
Rare Wooden Tractor Looks Like A Real A-C
“I have more than 100 tractors in my collection and all of them run and drive just fine except one,” says E.J. Croll with a grin, knowing the people he mentions that to will wonder why one doesn’t work. He’s quick to tell them, “That one’s my wooden A, a 2,500 lb. r...
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Power Cart Rebuild Offers Improvements
Ralph Rice was sold on the concept of an engine-powered forecart the first time he saw one at Horse Progress Days some 17 or 18 years ago. He knew it made perfect sense on his mixed power farm. A purebred Suffolk breeder, he had the horses. He also had modern farm equipment. Wi...
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They Made A Wheel Horse Road Grader
Kevin Hansen sent us photos and some info on a 1961 Wheel Horse that he and his grandson converted into a road grader. Hansen started out with a laugh, stating that this might not have the approval of some Wheel Horse purists.
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Colorado Farmer Can’t Stop Trying New Things
Roy Pfaltzgraff just can’t stop innovating on his northeastern Colorado dryland farm. In an area where it can be hard to grow a good crop of wheat, he drills sunflowers, corn and as many as eight other crops on 12-in. centers (Vol. 47, No. 4). Next year, he plans to exper...
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Stilts Tractors Attract Attention
By Lorn Manthey, Contributing Editor
Ask a farm inventor what he’d build for practical purposes, parades or just showing off, and he just might say “a tractor on stilts.” Although human stilts have been recorded as far back as the 9th to 7th centuries BC, ...
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Made-It-Myself Ramp Lift
Larry Goodman, Ionia, Mich.: “I purchased a trailer to haul my mower, but the 4-ft. ramp was on too much of an angle to load. The mower deck was too low, so I installed a bracket on the ramp with a scissor jack to raise it.”
Using a battery-powered imp...
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