Used hay tools – whether it’s a pull-behind hay steamer, large round baler or silage chopper – are drawing strong prices on the auction circuit. Right there with them are mid-class combines and row ...

If you’re a developing species with dreams of dominating your home planet one day, you’re going to have to do two things first: grow a big brain and get yourself a nice set of opposable thumbs. With a ...

Research into the origins of common shop tools produces interesting results: Ball peen hammer. Technically a “machinist’s hammer,” ball peen hammers were originally developed to help locate thumbs and ...

Buying used tools can be a great way to get your workshop setup. You can save hundreds of dollars on tools that have years of life left in them. On the other hand, you can unknowingly buy someone else ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Buying used tools can be a solid way to get your hands on high-quality products for a reduced fee. Additionally, there are a number of ways ...

If sheep are set on their rumps, the animals become very calm and are easier to shear. The 1875 patent for this sheep-shearing chair says, “The sheep, having been placed on the seat in the position ...

When Japanese scientists wanted to learn more about how ground stone tools dating back to the Early Upper Paleolithic might have been used, they decided to build their own replicas of adzes, axes, and ...

With a well-equipped toolbox, building a fence becomes a much easier job. Gloves will protect your hands from sharp fence wire edges and cushion them as you handle rough wood and metal. Choose leather ...

Neil Norman found the tools when he and Bruce Larson were walking down the local wadi, a usually dry watercourse that hadn’t moved much in a long, long time. Seasonal rains would flood the stream, ...

Farming equipment is traditionally designed to be used by men. That presents a problem for the increasing number of women across the country who are entering the agriculture workforce. Men have long ...

When Ann Adams and Liz Brensinger started a small heirloom vegetable farm in the early 1990s, they called their new venture Green Heron Farms, after the birds that nested in a copse of trees on their ...