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Masters of Muck: The VanSingel Farms Retirement Auction Preview

I was talking with an old friend from back home recently, and he’d mentioned that now that he was finished with the year’s batch of maple syrup, he was hoping to get to an auction soon. He’s kind of a serial tractor hound, so that didn’t really surprise me, but when he said that it …

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The Massey-Harris Pacemaker with the cowbell…

Interesting Iron / By Ryan Roossinck

See the auction details on this Oregon Massey-Harris Pacemaker. The Massey-Harris Pacemaker isn’t super-rare. They’re not super-common, either. There were about 3,000 built over two(ish) years. They were a great little Depression-era farm tractor. They’ve got an interesting history, though. The Pacemaker was a direct descendent of a pretty ground breaking tractor with ties to …

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