Meinrad Rumely started with a blacksmith shop in LaPorte, Indiana, in 1853 and soon expanded into building threshing machines and steam engines. By 1882, the operation was known as the M. Rumely ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. In 1923, John Ploesch purchased this ...

LAPORTE — A mural of Meinrad Rumely and his grandson, Edward, was unveiled Saturday with help from a descendant of the once world famous makers of farm machinery. Fran Jones had a tear in her eye ...

Enthusiasts of old Rumely tractors and other farm machinery will gather in LaPorte on Saturday. The 35th annual Rumely Collectors Convention is Saturday at the LaPorte County Historical Society Museum ...

ROLLAG, Minn. -- Mr. Goodwrench has nothing on Kenny Kass. The Iowa farmer's lifetime of mechanical know-how slowly chugged down parade lane during the 50th annual Western Minnesota Steam Threshers ...

Seventy years ago, a 25-horsepower tractor pulling a two-bottom plow or a small combine took hours, maybe days, to work anything larger than a small field. Today’s monster-sized farm machinery makes ...

Ron and Lora Lea Miller of Geneseo, Ill., restored this big OilPull. Long a mainstay in the Advance-Rumely line of OilPull Tractors, this 1913 Model E, or 30/60, shakes the ground with its 13-ton ...

WACO, Texas - Lou Buice is helping preserve examples of early 20th-century farm technology through his family's hobby of restoring and maintaining some of the oldest farm tractors ever built. In a ...

Rumely tractors are this year’s featured tractor line at the 41st annual show of the Camp Creek Antique Machinery and Threshing Association this weekend.

HARWOOD, N.D. — Before diesel became the fuel of choice for farm equipment, manufacturers experimented with other sources to fuel internal combustion engines. According to the Boise, Idaho, JUMP ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. In 1923, John Ploesch purchased this ...