The September/October 2020 issue of Antique Power magazine will be available in subscriber mailboxes and on newsstands soon. Our latest cover tractor is a 1956 Earthmaster owned by Martin McMahan. This feature is written by Rick Mannen and photographed by Brad Bowling.

“Earthmaster” sounds descriptive of a large, powerful machine, but the tractors bearing this name, according to a 1947 article in Farm Implement News, were “small in size and price but potentially big in performance.” The general purpose tractor “makes tractor ownership financially productive on farms as small as 10 acres without sacrificing 100 acre performance.”

The July/August 2020 issue of Antique Power magazine will be available in subscriber mailboxes and on newsstands now. Our latest cover tractor is a 1951 Minneapolis-Moline Model ZAE owned by Alan Johnson. This feature is written and photographed by Candace Brown.

For years, Alan Johnson believed his father’s 1951 Minneapolis-Moline Co. Model Z was long gone. Then, one day during the winter of 2011–12, his sister Carol Andreen phoned with some news. Their father’s tractor had suddenly reappeared. Apparently, after a new owner bought their parents’ former property near Thermopolis, Wyoming, the tractor had remained in a shed some distance from the house. The buyer finally wanted it removed. Johnson, who now lives in Montana, was both stunned and happy.