Loadstar Posted March 15, 2012 Posted March 15, 2012 I cannot find any better pictures of the hitch used with these two ploughs but I assume the hitch is an A-frame on a pair of wheels. I have found a couple of tandem hitches available in the 1970s one sold by MF and a second used in the 1976 IH catalogue. . The hitch used here for diskers was just one behind the other and it seemed to work well pulling up to 3 diskers cutting close to 50 feet if they were 15 footers. It seems like a lot of side draft but with a big enough tractor I think it worked well. I never pulled more than one at a time. This ad showing how John Deere hooked up three of their 1900 series diskers is from the late seventies. Left turns were easy but right turns took a bit more room. Quote
A554 Posted March 15, 2012 Posted March 15, 2012 The disc ploughs were best used turning to the left and ploughing around the paddock. All operations tended to follow around the field. Chamberlain tractors - the early models, had the driver sitting on the right side looking over the the right front wheel. This made it easier to keep the right wheel in the correct position. Quote
Loadstar Posted March 15, 2012 Posted March 15, 2012 For you Ford pickup guy's Nice old Fords. There were a lot of those sold around here. Still a few running too. I'm kind of stuck on fifties cars though. Like this 55 Chev. Quote
A554 Posted March 16, 2012 Posted March 16, 2012 An ad for the Massey Ferguson pressure hitch system. Quote
A554 Posted March 16, 2012 Posted March 16, 2012 Ad for wool handling equipment from Australia. Including a table for preparing and classing the cut fleece and several presses for packing the fleeces into a bale. Quote
Loadstar Posted March 16, 2012 Posted March 16, 2012 An ad for the Massey Ferguson pressure hitch system. That system was advertised here too but I don't think many were sold here in wheatland country. Here is a 1954 ad for Minneapolis Moline equipment. They really spent the money on advertising in those days, more so than other companies, at least in the Country Guide magazine. For a kid growing up in the fifties it started out as a history lesson that cleverly evolved into advertising for MM farm equipment. For a while they occupied the entire back cover of the magazine. Quote
Hydro70 Posted March 16, 2012 Posted March 16, 2012 I dont know if anyone has posted this old piece of literature yet or not, but I remember when this one hit the shelves Quote
A554 Posted March 17, 2012 Posted March 17, 2012 Ad for Fiat tractors fromthe 1960s. They were popular tractors particularly with Italian migrant farmers. Quote
Loadstar Posted March 17, 2012 Posted March 17, 2012 Ad for Fiat tractors fromthe 1960s. They were popular tractors particularly with Italian migrant farmers. Those Fiats were good little tractors. Cockshutt, and later White, sold the smaller models in red paint and Cockshutt decals. There were a few of the 12 and 1370 models sold around here. One of our favourite brands of pickup, GMC, offered automatic transmissions in their trucks as early as 1954 in models right up to 1 ton. I've never seen one. Back then nobody believed an automatic transmission could handle truck duty . Quote
Loadstar Posted March 17, 2012 Posted March 17, 2012 And if you preferred IH trucks, they introduced the new R100 in 1954. Not mentioned in the ad but I have read that an automatic transmission was also optional on the R series pickups. Quote
A554 Posted March 18, 2012 Posted March 18, 2012 I had forgotten the link between Fiat and White/Cockshutt. Here is an ad for David Brown tractors and as I recall some of these models were sold as Olivers in North America. Quote
A554 Posted March 18, 2012 Posted March 18, 2012 An ad for Oliver equipment from the mid 1960s. Quote
Loadstar Posted March 18, 2012 Posted March 18, 2012 An ad for Oliver equipment from the mid 1960s. And here is the same tractor as sold here by Cockshutt in the early sixties. They changed to red paint in the mid sixties. Quote
Loadstar Posted March 18, 2012 Posted March 18, 2012 Interesting that the Chamberlain front end reminds me a bit of the McCormick W9. General tires always had the best art work in their ads in my opinion. This one from about 1955. Looks like that dog is planning to have a closer look at the tires. Quote
Loadstar Posted March 18, 2012 Posted March 18, 2012 I had forgotten the link between Fiat and White/Cockshutt. Here is an ad for David Brown tractors and as I recall some of these models were sold as Olivers in North America. Not sure if I have anything on the Olivers but here is my White Cockshutt brochure showing the 12 and 1370 tractors. Probablly from the early 1970s. Quote
A554 Posted March 19, 2012 Posted March 19, 2012 These old ads had a lot of art work and drawing that must have taken a lot of time and skill to prepare, for example this ad for Allis Chalmers combines. Quote
Loadstar Posted March 19, 2012 Posted March 19, 2012 An ad for Ford tractors in the 1960s. Seems to me the Ford 5000 had a six cylinder engine here. Very smooth running it was too. Nearly forgot to add an ad... Here is a two page spread of some Case equipment from 1967. That 1030 is a sharp looking tractor and I could sure make use of that 580 construction king. Quote
Loadstar Posted March 19, 2012 Posted March 19, 2012 Heres a page from a Versatile brochure from the 80s showing a model 800 Series II Versatile pulling a double hitch of diskers. They appear to be CCIL, (built right in Manitoba). The liquid fertilizer tank behind is the first I have ever seen used this way. Most guys seeding with diskers just put some granular down the spout with the seed way back then. Quote
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