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New AIM Ride ’n’ Drive feature: Self-propelled sprayers

Sprayers will be lined up and driven  one at a time by interested buyers

July 19, 2017

Choosing the right machine the first time saves growers time and money – in the purchase and in the application. Investing in a sprayer is a large financial commitment, so it’s important to know what’s on the market to truly meet your farm’s needs and to understand how the different models compare in performance. That’s

SeedMaster’s Norbert Beaujot sees DOT technology as one solution to a shortage of skilled operators.

Machinery, News

Not just a driverless tractor, but no tractor at all

A global launch at Ag in Motion could change the way you farm

By Laura Rance-Unger June 28, 2017

While farmers have been waiting impatiently for equipment designers to commercialize the driverless tractor, Prairie inventor and entrepreneur Norbert Beaujot has found a way to ditch the tractor altogether. And he’s rolling it out for the first time in July 18 to 20 at Ag in Motion (AIM), Western Canada’s outdoor farm show now in

The flying hook’s impact shattered the fibreglass fender of the tractor being used to pull out a stuck truck.

Local news

Flying hook nearly hits farmer

Wawanesa farmer warns others not to use a tow rope with hook to extract a stuck vehicle

By Lorraine Stevenson May 26, 2017

A Wawanesa farmer was left shaken earlier this month after bolts on a truck he was trying to tow broke, sending a tow rope and metal hook hurtling at him at bullet speed. The tow rope snapped like a slingshot and the impact of the hook on the end of it shattered the tractor’s fibreglass

Comment, Machinery

Comment: Agriculture’s greatest innovation

Farms are still dangerous, but they’ve got a lot better over the years

By Alan Guebert May 24, 2017

In my youth, May brought two noticeable changes to the big Lutheran Church my family faithfully attended. The first was heat. No building on earth better held daytime heat from Mother’s Day through Reformation Day than that century-old house of worship. The second was the season’s short-sleeved parade of lost limbs, a brutal testament to

Local news, Machinery

VIDEO: Near miss as tow hook snaps, smashes into tractor

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff May 18, 2017

Wawanesa farmer Simon Ellis could have been killed when a tow hook broke and narrowly missed smashing through the glass of his tractor cab. “When trying to extract the grain truck from the mud we broke the tow hook off the truck. It was a near miss that could have cost me my life.” says Ellis, in his

The Manitoba Agricultural Museum’s Goold Shapely and Muir “Beaver” tractor. Goold Shapely and Muir were a very early Canadian manufacturer of tractors, having begun to manufacture the “Ideal” line of tractors in 1907. In 1918 GS&M replaced the Ideal line with the Beaver tractor which used a Waukesha engine and a friction drive transmission.

Country Crossroads, Local news

There are at least 150 reasons to visit the Manitoba Agricultural Museum

In celebration of the country’s anniversary, the MAM has gone through its collection and made a list

By Alex Campbell April 12, 2017

The year 2017 is the 150th anniversary of our great country. In celebration the Manitoba Agricultural Museum (MAM) decided to identify the top 150 artifacts in the collection. This list is too long to be published here but the list can be found in the MAM website under the button marked “150 Reasons.” One problem

The McPhail Sawyer Massey thresher in 1919. The machine does not appear to be running as there is a man on top of the machine bent over doing something, perhaps oiling the bearing on a shaft. The spokes on the pulleys are visible which indicates the pulleys are not revolving. If the pulleys were revolving the spokes would not be visible. In addition, the man on top of the machine would have been foolish to get close to moving pulleys and belts as projecting keys and metal belt lacing possessed the terrible ability to catch clothing and pull the person into the machinery. While oiling the babbitt bearings in use at the time needed to be done on a very regular basis, long spouted oil cans allowed the operators to remain as far away as possible from revolving parts. All the same, in the Pioneer era, missing fingers and limbs were common as a result of farm machinery accidents.

Country Crossroads

The McPhail outfit circa 1919

Once again a historic photo gives us insight into a world long past

By Alex Campbell February 22, 2017

Among the photos donated to the Manitoba Agricultural Museum is a series of photos taken on the Archie McPhail farm northeast of Brandon sometime around 1919. The photo seen here shows the threshing machine in use by Archie McPhail at the time, a wooden Sawyer Massey. The other photos seen in the series show the

The Canadian-made Sawyer Massey kerosene-burning tractor, pulling a five-bottom 14-inch Powerlift Cockshutt engine plow at the 1916 light tractor demonstration in Brandon.

Country Crossroads

Winners and losers: The Brandon light tractor plowing demonstrations of 1916

Canadian manufacturers always struggled to maintain relevance with their smaller market

By Alex Campbell January 18, 2017

There’s little doubt the 1916 Brandon light tractor plowing demonstrations were important in their day and perhaps nothing underlines this than the fact it’s taken three instalments to fully examine them. Sawyer Massey (SM) entered its 16-32 tractor. It was a major Canadian manufacturer of steam engines, threshing machines and other implements and got into

Country Crossroads, Our History

Pioneer sale offers historical insight

Farmer and politician William D. Staples sold up in 1916 due to the war

By Alex Campbell December 21, 2016

The ad seen here appeared in a fall 1916 edition of the Canadian Thresherman and Farmer magazine. William Staples, Dominion grain commissioner, was selling his farm equipment as his son was on active service with the Canadian military. Staples senior therefore needed to discontinue his farming operation. William Staples was born at Fleetwood, Ontario on

Early tractors like this Waterloo Boy 12-24 attracted plenty of interest at the 1916 Brandon tractor demonstrations.

Country Crossroads, Our History

Conventional tractors attracted attention too

Success or failure in Western Canada for early tractor makers appears to be linked to their distribution networks

By Alex Campbell November 30, 2016

The 1916 Brandon tractor demonstrations attracted a lot of conventional tractors along with the three wheelers. Minneapolis Steel & Machinery Company (MS&MC) brought its Twin City 15-30 tractor. MS&MC started operations by providing structural steel in Minneapolis-St. Paul. Between 1909 and the mid-teens MS&MC supplied tractor engines to Reeves & Company, manufactured the 30-60 Case

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