Our heritage
Built from American ingenuity.
Before mechanized agriculture reshaped the American landscape, brothers John A. and Hiram A. Pitts were advancing a better way to separate grain from the harvest.
Their 1837 improvements to threshing machinery helped establish a manufacturing lineage that became closely identified with Buffalo, New York. From those early threshers, the enterprise grew into one of the best-known names in agricultural and industrial machinery.
Buffalo Pitts equipment traveled far beyond western New York. Its steam traction engines supplied mobile power for farms and work sites; its threshing machines accelerated harvests; and its steam road rollers helped build the transportation infrastructure of a rapidly industrializing era. Later tractors carried the name into a new generation of mechanized work.
Today, this independent digital resource preserves that history while applying the same practical spirit to modern equipment decisions: understand the work, select capable machinery, and put productive capital to use.
- 1837: John and Hiram Pitts secure landmark threshing-machine improvements.
- 19th century: Buffalo-built threshers expand into national and international agricultural markets.
- Steam era: Traction engines and road rollers extend the name into mobile and municipal power.
- Today: BuffaloPitts.com connects industrial history with modern machinery intelligence.