Rust & Ingenuity: How One Family Turned Old Farm Gear into a Living History Exhibit
Published
7/14/2025
When you think of farming relics, your mind probably drifts to rusted tractors or antique plows. But Zac and Dan Laurie have taken a different route, collecting and celebrating one of agriculture’s stranger inventions: the hog oiler.
These metal contraptions, once fixtures on rural homesteads, allowed pigs to rub themselves against oil-soaked rollers or grooved spheres,...
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