66 — This is no ordinary bodywork project. This is specialty stuff. It requires an 1,800-plus-mile journey to the Upper Midwest. The fixes could take about a year and run about $50,000. But this ...
EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (WEAU) - The rumble of antique tractors and the hiss of steam engines transported visitors back to the past this weekend at the 62nd annual Pioneer Days. Hosted by the Chippewa Valley ...
The antique tractors that will be displayed at the Clark County Fair aren’t simply old. They also have stories, said Ed Kranz, an antique tractor repair hobbyist who has taken the steering wheel to ...
Lee Carey’s 1955 John Deere tractor was moseying along just fine before the loud clunk. A bolt on his nearly-as-old plow had sheared. Unfazed, he jumped into “fix-it” mode. “This is how these things ...
— The collecting of antique machinery is a hobby for many locals in this area, but behind the glimmering paint of a freshly restored John Deere tractor is a sense of nostalgia that brings residents of ...
MANHATTAN, IL — Fans of antique and vintage farm equipment have a unique opportunity to see them up close, with the return of an annual Will County Threshermen's Association show. The 63rd Annual ...
When Harry Hoppes was 6 years old, his father put him behind the wheel of a Farmall tractor in a field at the family’s Perry Township farm. “He said to me, ‘Now steer it’,” Hoppes recalls. “I was so ...