General Tractor Information Buying Your First Tractor: Choosing the Right One Buying Your First Tractor: The People You Buy From Identifying the Make or Model of Your Tractor Differences Between the Ford 9N and Ford 8N New Hitches For Your Old Tractor Tractors and Winter Putting Horsepower to the Ground (Tractor Traction) Using Your Tractor: Creating a Seed Bed Storing Your Tractor Maintaining Rubber Tires Tractor Operator Safety - Loader & Backhoe Operation Helpful Hints to Lengthen the Life of Your Tractor Using Your Implements: The Bucket Loader Using Your Implements: Plow and Disc Choosing, Mounting and Using a Bush Hog Type Mower Trailering Your Tractor Tire Fluids Horsepower Defined Engine Basics: Spark Plug Cleaning Tractor Implements and Their Use Ford Part Numbers

Maintenance and Mechanical Information Simple Fixes Third-Brush Generators Oil Bath Air Filters Magneto Timing Converting Your Tractor From 6-Volt to 12-Volt Ford N-Series 12-Volt Conversion Kits (Early) How to Measure Overhaul Parts - or - "How do I know what bearing sizes I need? What about the piston and sleeve sizes?" Replacing your Rings Engine Rebuild Pitfalls Engine Troubleshooting - Gasoline Engine Engine Troubleshooting - Diesel Engine Engine Valves - Some Helpful Information Two-Brush Generators Tuning-up Your Tractor: Plugs & Compression Testing Tuning-up Your Tractor: Secondary Ignition Wires and Distributor Tuning-up Your Tractor: Oil, Oil Filter and Air Breather Tuning-up Your Tractor: Cooling and Fuel Systems, Hoses and Belts Tuning-Up Your Tractor: The Battery The Engine Rebuild Kit What Kind of Oil Should I Use? Upgrading an Oliver Super 55 Electrical System Field Service Operations and Lubrication A Tinker's Guide to Manifold Repairs The Fordson F Ignition System The Fordson Improved Vaporizer Listening to Your Tractor, Part 1: Colors Listening to Your Tractor, Part 2: Smells Listening to Your Tractor, Part 3: Noises Listening to Your Tractor, Part 4: Bad Vibes Measuring with Calipers Tractor Generators Recommendations for 12 Volt Conversions Welding Basics, Part 1 Welding Basics, Part 2 Welding Basics, Part 3 Welding Basics, Part 4 Welding Basics, Part 5 Updating the Charging System Tractor Hydraulics - The Basics Tractor Hydraulics - The Basics, Part 2 A Step-by-Step 12-Volt Conversion Hydraulic Cylinder Anatomy Solvent Types MF 35 (and up) Tractor Assembly Notes Step by Step Carburetor Overhaul The Nuts and Bolts of Fasteners The Nuts and Bolts of Fasteners, Part 2 Torque Wrenches Wiring Basics Ford 2000 & 4000 12-volt Conversion Ford 9N, 2N and 8N Transmission/Hydraulic Fluid Troubleshooting the Ford 8N Hydraulic Lift Adding an Hour Meter Oliver 550 Clutch Overhaul Tips

Fabrication Articles Fabrication (Who, me? Make it myself?) A Belt Pulley? Really Doing Something? Fabricating Sidesheets

Restoration Stories Restoration Story: Cockshutt 30 The Rescue of a Fordson F Search for Spares Major Problems (Followup to "Search for Spares") Earthmaster Project Progress Fairweather Tractor (Ford 860) Ford Super Dexta Restoration Story: 1941 John Deere B Uncle Cecil's Super A Lives Again 1951 Farmall H Field Marshall Series 1 Madison's County Madison's County, Part 2 Restoration Story: Fordson Major The 9N Lives Again The Revival of a John Deere Combine The Revival of a John Deere Combine, Part II Repairing a Massey Harris 22 George's Fordson Major Restoration Story: John Deere 2010 Diesel, Part 1 Restoration Story: John Deere 2010 Diesel, Part 2 Restoration Story: John Deere 2010 Diesel, Part 3 Restoration Story: John Deere 2010 Diesel, Part 4 The Ford 9N Engine Rebuild Chronicle A Cautionary Tale The Perfect Restoration Restoration Story: 1929 McCormick Deering 10-20 Restoration Story: 1952 Ferguson TO30 New Life for an Old Allis A Farmall Restoration Story - What's Been Done So Far

Antique Tractor History The History of Old Abe (Case Eagle Trademark) The History of the Nuffield Tractor - Part 1 The History of the Nuffield Tractor - Part 2 The History of the Nuffield Tractor - Conclusion The History of the Field Marshall Tractor Grain Threshing in the Early 40's Harvesting Corn in Southern Wisconsin: The Early Years Harvesting Hay: The Early Years Harvesting Hay: The Early Years, Part 2 The David Brown Rose Badge Old Time Threshing (UK) A Cockshutt Tractor History Haying Before Tractors Experimental Tractors Tractors Down-Under How Steam Power Revolutionized the Farm in America Harry Ferguson - The Man & The Machine The Ferguson System Principal The Cletrac General 'GG' and the BF Avery 'A' - A Bit of History

Miscellaneous Field Modifications (or... Sins of the Farmer) Fire in the Field On the Road with Dave Gohl: Deere Departed Friend On the Road with Dave Gohl: Auction Musings On the Road with Dave Gohl: Tractor Club Beginnings On the Road with Dave Gohl: Tractors and Farming Transfer of Power - Hoof to Tractor Unidentified Crawling Object Unidentified Crawling Object - Identified? Memories of an IH Super A A City Guy's First Tractor It's Alright Where It Is! Show Coverage: Central Illinois Strawberry Festival Show Coverage: Old Gold National Antique Show Self-Starting Tractor - McCormick 10-20 Yesterday (a Poem) Little M An Old-Time Tractor Demonstration The Day Mom Drove the 8N Show Coverage: Argyle & Mt. Pleasant Labor Day Show Pop's Tractor of Gold Memories of a Farmall C When in Drought, Build a Tractor Shed! The Great Escape Bringing "Sweatheart" Home Tractor Power What Price Enthusiasm? The 8N and the Fox Sunday Drives Hello Ford 601 - Goodbye Mule! Dad's old Silver King and Joe Caplco Collection of a Lifetime The Day Tractor Lovers Dream About Derelict (a Poem) A Lifetime of David Brown Tractors Museum Coverage: The Stuttgart Agricultural Museum Story of a Case SC Farmall 460 - That's My Girl! Getting My Old Tractor Home The Mud Daubers & the Old John Deere Dad's 1945 Farmall A A Lifetime of David Brown Farming Never Left My Blood Show Coverage: Godfrey, ILlinois Country Days An AC Model M Crawler The River Tractor Recollections of a John Deere GP Show Coverage: Journey to Ankeny A Minneapolis-Moline Comes Home Machine Shops Running Beans in East Central Indiana Gathering of the Orange Magic Moments Tractors and the City Boy Stories From Old Farmer, #1 Stories From Old Farmer, #2 Stories From Old Farmer, #3 The Allis Chalmers ED40 The Roof Palamino Good as New A Towny Goes Plowing Picking Corn Introduction to the Gibson D My Ford Golden Jubilee Persistence Pays Off Case Farm Equipment A John Deere B Unstuck Women and Tractors Women and Tractors - A Woman's Touch Women and Tractor Pulls Women and Tractor - More Views from the Farmer's Wife Women and Tractors - Tractor Engine Repair Memories of a Field Service Engineer More Memories of a Field Service Engineer More Memories of a Field Service Engineer More Memories of a Field Service Engineer More Memories of a Field Service Engineer More Memories of a Field Service Engineer More Memories of a Field Service Engineer More Memories of a Field Service Engineer A Threshing Demonstration When Push Comes to Shove A Farmall Story Old Tractors Still Have Their Place Box Plow Blues Farmall Stories A Lifetime of Farm Machinery A Tractor's Point of View Reflections of the Fifties Some People Like Red The Massey Show Chores Oliver 550 Purchaser Checklist It Can't Be Done! - A Tractor Story 1935 John Deere Model BN - The History of My Tractor Old Abe is Still Making Hay

Talk of the Town What's In Your Tractor's Toolbox? What's the "Stuckest" You've Ever Been? Miracle Formula for a Stuck Engine Best Tractor? Can You Patch a Tire Sidewall? How to Remove a Broken Bolt Winterizing Your Engine Repairing a Gas Tank How to Crank-Start a Tractor Modern Diesel Fuel in an Old Tractor Tips for the First-Time Welder Best Way to Finish-Mow 5 Acres Removing Broken Bolts (2nd Edition) The Perfect Collection Tractor Trailering Best & Worst Farmall Purchase Diesel Vs. Gas The Saga of Grandpa's Tractor Trenching With a Plow Preventing Tractor Theft A Question for Dads Don't Touch My Tractor! (Tractor Show Behavior) Antique Tractors a Passing Fad?

Tractor Profiles Oliver 70 Row Crop Allis-Chalmers WD45 Earthmaster Ford 600 Series Silver King Allis-Chalmers Model G Case VA Series Farmall Cub Farmall M Ferguson TO-20 John Deere Model H Farmall Model C John Deere Model R

Product Reviews Electronic Ignition JB Weld: Duct Tape in a Tube Storm Covers Pressure Washers Kreem Brand Fuel Tank Liner Worksaver 3-Point Hitch for Farmall H and M Black Tire Paint Lead Substitutes

IMPORTANT: Remember that any tractor, and antique tractors in particular, are dangerous to use, repair and restore. Please be sure of your own safety before commencing any use, restoration, or repairs of your equipment.