Machinery editor Scott Garvey travels to a southeastern Saskatchewan farm to check out a rare piece of tractor history: the WA-14, which Oregon manufacturer FWD Wagner built for John Deere in the late 1960s.
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A look back at John Deere’s WA-14 tractor
What was it like for a farmer to use one of those rare machines in the field?
Vintage equipment club preserves memory of IH
The International Harvester collectors club hit the road to promote its upcoming annual event
The Western Canada International Harvester Club, chapter 38, made an appearance at the Ag in Motion farm show recently to promote itself and recruit new members.
Check out this vintage McCormick-Deering with a modern vibe
The classic gets a glossy new paint job and a Cummins diesel engine
Seen at the World Ag Expo: aside from sporting oversized tires and a glossy new paint job, this McCormick-Deering, which looks to be from the brand’s 1930s era, has also been re-powered with a Cummins diesel engine.
An innovative flop: Remembering the Ford 6000 tractor
How the cutting-edge tractor and its failure-prone transmission became a marketing nightmare for the brand
The tractors were available with either a 223-cubic inch gasoline or a 242-cubic inch diesel engine — but a groundbreaking innovation for its time, the Select-O-Speed powershift transmission behind those engines, turned out to be the tractors’ early downfall.
VIDEO: Sask. farmers gather to run vintage combines
Every fall a group of local farmers get together in a field near Milden, Saskatchewan, to have some fun running vintage combines from the 1950s and 1960s. This year the event included a recently restored Roto-thresh combine along with an assortment of other machines including models from John Deere, Massey-Ferguson and Case. There was also a […] Read more
VIDEO: Vintage Roto Thresh combine hits the field to harvest wheat
This fall a vintage Roto Thresh combine returned to a Saskatchewan field to do something it had not done in a very long time: harvest wheat. This is likely the only Roto Thresh to actually be put to work harvesting a crop in decades. In this video, Glacier FarmMedia’s senior machinery editor Scott Garvey was there to record the event and […] Read more
Farmers refresh a Roto Thresh
West-central Saskatchewan farmers find and restore a rare classic combine
It isn’t often I get to follow up on a machinery article more than a decade later. But in the case of Mervin Lloyd’s Roto Thresh combines, that’s exactly what happened. Back in 2011 I spoke to Mervin Lloyd of Fiske in west-central Saskatchewan about his thoughts on the unique Roto Thresh combines he owned […] Read more
Alberta farmer is a collector of tractors and preserver of history
Bob Taylor’s Tractor Haven is where old tractors and all kinds of other collectibles go to be remembered — and every piece has a story to tell
It might be fair to say that southern Alberta farmer Bob Taylor never met a tractor he didn’t like. You don’t have to spend much time touring around the farm homestead about an hour south of Calgary to figure that out. Taylor still owns a large collection of farm tractors he’s met over the years. […] Read more
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