Vintage Ads

[Loadstar]

There is no mention in the ad but I'm guessing this cab is a dealer installed option on this 1960 Oliver ad. Cabs on farm equipment were very rare in those times.

[Big Bud guy]

There is no mention in the ad but I'm guessing this cab is a dealer installed option on this 1960 Oliver ad. Cabs on farm equipment were very rare in those times.

Not in my area. I would say half of the tractors around here had cabs. Most of the JD R through 830s had cabs. Almost all of the big crawlers had cabs. I have a Case L with a cab and its about the oldest tractor I've seen with one. That north wind would just cut through you on a cool spring or fall day.

[Loadstar]

There is no mention in the ad but I'm guessing this cab is a dealer installed option on this 1960 Oliver ad. Cabs on farm equipment were very rare in those times.

Not in my area. I would say half of the tractors around here had cabs. Most of the JD R through 830s had cabs. Almost all of the big crawlers had cabs. I have a Case L with a cab and its about the oldest tractor I've seen with one. That north wind would just cut through you on a cool spring or fall day.

Maybe I didn't get out enough to know but the first local tractor with a cab I can remember was on a 560 IH in the mid 1960s and it was a home built out of plywood and plexiglass. Impressive at the time but would look crude as all get out by today's standards. Most of the farmers dressed up in heavy clothes or , like my dad, had the heat houser left on the tractor for spring planting.

[Loadstar]

Big new (in 1954) Case 500 diesel with power steering.

[Loadstar]

IH sale flyer from spring of 1973. I never got one of those free IH tape measures but I bet there are a few out there still.

[Loadstar]

Farmhand on a Farmall. Looks like a lot of weight up front with that engine powered snow blower. From a 1954 Country Guide magazine.

[dale560]

Never have seen a farmhand loader like that with the curved arms in front. Plenty of later models from the 60 s and 70 s. Dad bought a new f11 in probably 82 to put on his super m remember that day yet. They brought the loader out on the implement truck mounted it on the super m and set the old cable farmhand on the truck and sent it to town. Have seen pictures of the snow blowers but never one in real life.

[redneckchevy9]

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[Loadstar]

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Great ad with Doris Day in it. Always helps to have a celebrity in the ad to help draw attention to the product. Like this 1954 ad for IH freezers. Mme. Jehanne Benoit might not be a well known name south of the border but she was up here in Canada years ago.

[Delta Dirt]

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Sorry I don't have Doris Day attached to this Howard Rotavator wall poster dating back to 1964-----------but it's the best I've got for tonight. Not the best photo either------(could have posted this before--------if so, please disregard)

Delta Dirt

Avon Ms 38723

[Loadstar]

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Sorry I don't have Doris Day attached to this Howard Rotavator wall poster dating back to 1964-----------but it's the best I've got for tonight. Not the best photo either------(could have posted this before--------if so, please disregard)

Delta Dirt

Avon Ms 38723

Anson, thanks for adding that rotovator ad. If it has been here before I don't remember it. But then it has been a long time. :-)

I found another Farmhand snow blower ad. This time with dual spouts , and I would assume, dual fans.That would make that Wisconsin engine work for sure. Farmhand even had their own hydraulic oil in 1953.

Notice the tractor tires are installed backwards.

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[Loadstar]

Some of the most popular red tractors here in the 1950s were the Massey Harris 44, and to a lesser extent, the 55. They upgraded them a bit by adding "Special" in 1954. Claimed a world's record in fuel economy for the diesel model in this ad.

[Loadstar]

Probably not many of these IH windrowers down South but they and their competitors were common here in wheat land. This model 120 IH shows up in a 1955 Country Guide ad.

[Loadstar]

Thought I'd just throw in this vintage car ad. Some will know me as a Ford/Mercury fan but really anything from the 40s and 50s will get me interested. This one is not one of my own ads but one I borrowed off the internet. It looked so good that I forgot to notice what year it was. I'm thinking about 1940.

[Loadstar]

I doubt there were many big fancy machinery sheds like this Butler sold here in the 1950s. Maybe a small wooden shack for the tractor but combines, balers, mowers, etc., sat outside. This ad from 1954.

[Loadstar]

Butler, Behlen, and Quonset huts were the only totally enclosed machine sheds I remember seeing.

If the machinery wasn't stored outside, the alleyway in the barn, or an open front machine shed served the purpose.

Steel quonsets started to become really popular here in the 1970s. Standard Steel sold a lot, as did Behlen and numerous other companies. Here is one I had not heard of. From 1978, the "Brute" steel shed. Notice it has a straighter wall quonset than some other brands. Allows parking tall stuff closer to the walls. I've put a few dents in mine backing the Loadstar in close to the side wall. :-(

[Loadstar]

I think these old Fordson Major tractors were referred to as "Longhorns" due to the long, curved arms supporting the headlights. This 1952 was probably one of the last of this style before they came out with the newer version.

Notice you could buy it at the same dealer as your new Monarch car.

[jordi 1455]

I think these old Fordson Major tractors were referred to as "Longhorns" due to the long, curved arms supporting the headlights. This 1952 was probably one of the last of this style before they came out with the newer version.

Notice you could buy it at the same dealer as your new Monarch car.

The E27N was based on the Fordson N and the Fordson N was Based on the Fordson F.

[redneckchevy9]

Thought I'd just throw in this vintage car ad. Some will know me as a Ford/Mercury fan but really anything from the 40s and 50s will get me interested. This one is not one of my own ads but one I borrowed off the internet. It looked so good that I forgot to notice what year it was. I'm thinking about 1940.

Notice the Indians in the bag saying "Ugh, big car" Can't get away with that these days!

[redneckchevy9]

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[redneckchevy9]

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[Loadstar]

Thought I'd just throw in this vintage car ad. Some will know me as a Ford/Mercury fan but really anything from the 40s and 50s will get me interested. This one is not one of my own ads but one I borrowed off the internet. It looked so good that I forgot to notice what year it was. I'm thinking about 1940.

Notice the Indians in the bag saying "Ugh, big car" Can't get away with that these days!

I had not noticed that but you are right, political correctness was unheard of in those days. Notice this 1950 bag of Co-op "Indian Brand" fertilizer.

[Old Binder Guy]

Butler, Behlen, and Quonset huts were the only totally enclosed machine sheds I remember seeing.

If the machinery wasn't stored outside, the alleyway in the barn, or an open front machine shed served the purpose.

Steel quonsets started to become really popular here in the 1970s. Standard Steel sold a lot, as did Behlen and numerous other companies. Here is one I had not heard of. From 1978, the "Brute" steel shed. Notice it has a straighter wall quonset than some other brands. Allows parking tall stuff closer to the walls. I've put a few dents in mine backing the Loadstar in close to the side wall. :-(

Ralph,

Dad bought this Sioux "quonset" type building in 1958, I think? I remember he paid $3,200 for it. We poured the footings and assembled it ourselves, using ladders and mounted Farmhand F-10 loaders. I remember working with two wire extension cords on Dad's long non-extension aluminum ladder. With it resting against the building structure, his old Craftsman 1/4" drill (With the planetary screwdriver attachment, that you grabbed one end, if you wanted to drive in and the opposite end if you wanted to remove.) it gave you "a tickle" every time you pulled the trigger. Dad always worked with white cotton gloves. He didn't mind being "all thumbs" but I couldn't wear them when I was working with small nuts or screws, so I took the tickle.

This is a later picture, ca 1980 of the front end of the shed. There was a like door in each end. I don't ever remember opening and using that far door. They were 16' doors, and I could "button" the 403 IH Combine and its 18' header through it, but it took lots of back & forth and steering.

This was the farm circa 1960, and I would have still been in high school.

This is a crop of the same picture. I posted it, because Dad's 1947 K-5 IH truck with its WWII Army surplus truck box is parked beside it. Gary

[Loadstar]

Ralph,

Dad bought this Sioux "quonset" type building in 1958, I think? I remember he paid $3,200 for it. We poured the footings and assembled it ourselves, using ladders and mounted Farmhand F-10 loaders. I remember working with two wire extension cords on Dad's long non-extension aluminum ladder. With it resting against the building structure, his old Craftsman 1/4" drill (With the planetary screwdriver attachment, that you grabbed one end, if you wanted to drive in and the opposite end if you wanted to remove.) it gave you "a tickle" every time you pulled the trigger. Dad always worked with white cotton gloves. He didn't mind being "all thumbs" but I couldn't wear them when I was working with small nuts or screws, so I took the tickle.

This is a later picture, ca 1980 of the front end of the shed. There was a like door in each end. I don't ever remember opening and using that far door. They were 16' doors, and I could "button" the 403 IH Combine and its 18' header through it, but it took lots of back & forth and steering.

Gary

Thanks for those views of the old style quonset Gary. Its interesting that the name "quonset" referred to the style of building. Not usually a brand name. In the case of this ad they do use it as a name . The Quonset 32 offered here by the Great Lakes Steel Corporation. I'm guessing the number 32 referred to the building width. That was a good sized shed in the 1950s. No dual wheeled tractors or cabs. No headers bigger than 16 feet.

[KeithFink]

Thanks for those views of the old style quonset Gary. Its interesting that the name "quonset" referred to the style of building. Not usually a brand name. In the case of this ad they do use it as a name . The Quonset 32 offered here by the Great Lakes Steel Corporation.

Goodness! Part of that ad reads like a Viagra commercial.

Keith-