NEW ISSUE: The July/August 2021 issue of Antique Power magazine is available in our gift shop and will be available in subscriber mailboxes and on newsstands soon. Our latest cover tractor is a beautiful 1957 John Deere & Co. Model 620 LP-Gas Orchard tractor owned by Jerry Neal. text by Robert Gabrick • photos by Brad Bowling

Jerry Neal, the owner of our featured 1957 John Deere & Co. Model 620 LP-Gas Orchard tractor is a co-founder of one of the largest semiconductor manufacturing companies in the world, R.F. Micro Devices Inc., now Qorvo. He and his wife Linda established Linbrook Heritage Estate in Trinity, North Carolina, in 2007 as a working farm and forest to preserve North Carolina’s farming heritage and industrial legacy, as well as conserve the forests and farmland. The 500-acre estate is home to the following four museums.

NEW ISSUE: The May/June 2021 issue of Antique Power magazine is available in our gift shop and will be available in subscriber mailboxes and on newsstands soon. Our latest cover tractor is Stewart Paquette’s 1981 International Harvester Model 3588 2+2. This feature is written by Rick Mannen and photos by Mark Dalton.

Once the 100-horsepower barrier had been breached, tractor builders quickly moved up the power scale. In the early 1970s, the International Harvester Co. had a line of heavy rear-wheel-drive tractors in the 66-series. The largest, the Model 1566, produced over 140 drawbar horsepower. This series was updated in 1976 to the 86-series tractors.

NEW ISSUE: The March/April 2021 issue of Antique Power magazine is available in our gift shop and will be available in subscriber mailboxes and on newsstands soon. Our latest cover tractor is Steve and Diana Stebbins’ 1972 Oliver Model 2655. This feature is written by Peggy Shank and Rick Mannen and photographed by Brad Bowling.

Farm power glows green on the Stebbins Farm because the owners, Steve and Diana Stebbins, prefer Oliver tractors above all others. According to Diana, “95 percent of our 17 tractors are Olivers or from the Oliver line, including a couple of Averys and three Oliver crawlers.” The giant in the fleet, our featured 1972 Model 2655, dwarfs the smallest in their stable, a Model 60.

NEW ISSUE: The January/February 2021 issue of Antique Power magazine is available in our gift shop and will be available in subscriber mailboxes and on newsstands soon. Our latest cover tractor is the Jerred Ruble’s 1919 Twin City 16-30 Model A. This feature is written by Robert Gabrick and photographed by Brad Bowling.

The year 1919 will be one of achievement,” declared the May 1, 1919, Chilton Tractor Journal. “It marks a milestone on the road of progress of the tractor industry. The production figures show that close to 300,000 tractors will be built. This means that the tractor industry will, in all probability, pass the truck industry, for there is every reason to believe that this year, for the first time, more tractors than trucks will be manufactured.”

NEW ISSUE: The November/December 2020 issue of Antique Power magazine is available in our gift shop and will be available in subscriber mailboxes and on newsstands soon. Our latest cover tractor is the Buice family’s 1920 International 15-30. This feature is written by Robert Gabrick and photographed by Jerry Heasley.

The 1920s! Just a mention of that decade might call to mind the Roaring Twenties, the Jazz Age, the Era of Ballyhoo, or the Decade of Wonderful Nonsense. Iconic chapters included the flappers doing the Charleston, gangsters shooting their rivals in a battle to sell booze to a thirsty public that refused to accept prohibition, and aristocratic movie stars living the lush life in Beverly Hills. It was a time of increasing prosperity and greater leisure time that contributed to a near decade-long binge that ended with the 1929 stock market crash and the hangover of the Great Depression.