Vintage Ads

[Loadstar]

Here is one that might be familiar to some on the forum. The IH 300 Utility from 1956. I could use one of those to load and unload round bales right now.

[George 2]

The Sylvester company you mentioned above makes me wonder. Is it the same company that made the powered handcars for railway track crews? I used to see them often on the railway that ran through the farm I grew up on.

[Loadstar]

The Sylvester company you mentioned above makes me wonder. Is it the same company that made the powered handcars for railway track crews? I used to see them often on the railway that ran through the farm I grew up on.

I think it might be. http://www.flickr.com/photos/striderv/4729557055/

Pull type combines are on my mind these days. Not quite as small as this Cockshutt model 422 from 1959.

[Old Binder Guy]

Here is one that might be familiar to some on the forum. The IH 300 Utility from 1956. I could use one of those to load and unload round bales right now.

Ralph,

Farmall Kid, or son Mike, owns this 1955 IH 300 Utility. It is the workhorse around his place and gets used for just about everything. He could have a newer tractor if he wanted it, but this was the last model (other than the newer 350) of the "round nose" tractors for IH and it kind of fits in with the Farmall H & M that way.

I used to have one on the homestead near Lewistown, MT, which I'd just finished painting in this photo, with a few other IH items present. However, I'd just completely overhauled the engine and put in "350 high dome" pistons." It sure changed it's get up and go!Gary

[M Diesel]

Not a 300, but kinda close.

[Loadstar]

Gary I had yours and Mike's 300 in mind when I posted that ad. Here is another one , from 1956 this time.

[jordi 1455]

Same Leopard 90 Turbo

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[jordi 1455]

European IH ad

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[664 CDN]

Here is one that might be familiar to some on the forum. The IH 300 Utility from 1956. I could use one of those to load and unload round bales right now.

Ralph, I put close to 7000 hrs on dad`s 300 U with a super Six loader, you did`nt want a 1000lb round bale to lift.

Ray

[Loadstar]

Here is one that might be familiar to some on the forum. The IH 300 Utility from 1956. I could use one of those to load and unload round bales right now.

Ralph, I put close to 7000 hrs on dad`s 300 U with a super Six loader, you did`nt want a 1000lb round bale to lift.

Ray

Ray, I wondered just how well those fifties vintage hydraulics might handle big bales. Mine are not as big as some bales but my Super 90 Massey had no problem lifting them . It is slow but I have never found one it won't lift.

Here is an interesting add on for the old Farmalls. A Behlen high speed gear box. From 1948.

[Ron Cook]

Ralph,

I only operated one F20 so far, but I did put lots of hours on it. Started cultivating with it at age 9 and still spraying with it when I was 17. Then my dad traded it off about the time I left for college in 1961. It had the Behlen road gear. Most of them around these parts had that gearbox installed. It looks like it was probably an easy upgrade. Boy, those old gears really howled going that fast, though. It was a little faster than the John Deere A but not as fast as the Farmall M.

Ron

[Loadstar]

Ralph,

I only operated one F20 so far, but I did put lots of hours on it. Started cultivating with it at age 9 and still spraying with it when I was 17. Then my dad traded it off about the time I left for college in 1961. It had the Behlen road gear. Most of them around these parts had that gearbox installed. It looks like it was probably an easy upgrade. Boy, those old gears really howled going that fast, though. It was a little faster than the John Deere A but not as fast as the Farmall M.

Ron

Ron, I am assuming all those tractors with the high speed gear box would have been on rubber tires? Might have been a rough ride on steel lugs.

On a somewhat related subject, here is another interesting accessory. This conversion axle to make a wide front out of row crop tractors would have been popular here in post war times when new wide front tractors were hard to acquire.

From 1951, The Acme company.

[Ron Cook]

Ralph,

We had skeleton steel for cultivating lister planted row crops, but the tractor was generally on rubber. Always rubber on front. The rears on ours were 11X38. Many used 36 inch rears. The F20 wouldn't start out in road gear with skeleton steel on the rear. There would have to be alot of clutch slipping. You had to be going in 4th, shift to neutral, and engage the road gear. With the steel on, it wouldn't coast enough to get shifted. I tried. Now, the John Deere A, that was another deal. I could get it in 6th. Did it all the time. Probably only because I never got caught. :) I wouldn't probably do it today. But then, I might.

Ron

[Loadstar]

Now, the John Deere A, that was another deal. I could get it in 6th. Did it all the time. Probably only because I never got caught. :) I wouldn't probably do it today. But then, I might.

Ron

Ron, since you mentioned the John Deere A , this might be a good time to post this 1948 ad here. I am not sure but guessing this one might be an A. John Deere had a good series of ads in the late forties and early fifties. Here they are promoting soil conservation

[dale560]

Keep posting those ads loadstar and every one else. Dad has a 47 A with a cultivator just like that his dad bought it used in the late40s we cultivated 40 inch corn with it last about77 or 78 has been sitting in a building since then with the cultivator mounted.

[Old Binder Guy]

Ralph,

I only operated one F20 so far, but I did put lots of hours on it. Started cultivating with it at age 9 and still spraying with it when I was 17. Then my dad traded it off about the time I left for college in 1961. It had the Behlen road gear. Most of them around these parts had that gearbox installed. It looks like it was probably an easy upgrade. Boy, those old gears really howled going that fast, though. It was a little faster than the John Deere A but not as fast as the Farmall M.

Ron

Ron, I am assuming all those tractors with the high speed gear box would have been on rubber tires? Might have been a rough ride on steel lugs.

On a somewhat related subject, here is another interesting accessory. This conversion axle to make a wide front out of row crop tractors would have been popular here in post war times when new wide front tractors were hard to acquire.

From 1951, The Acme company.

Ralph,

I was looking at the wide front axle then noticed something else in that ad, but kept my hands to myself until tonight, so I could put pictures here! We were discussing Anderson and the rock pickers built here, but possibly built up in Canada as well? Well the air compressor in your ad this morning was quite similar to son Mike's Campbell-Hausfield "Farm 'n Field" air compressor that used to belong to Sharon's dad. The military tank was the most common thing, I guess?

I remember when my father in-law bought it at the Moore Farmer's Oil Company "Cenex" store. It was probably about 1958 or 59? His is set up so you can disconnect the hose from the tank, from the compressor, then unstrap the "WWII War Surplus" military air tank, to use as a portable tank. From your ad, it sounds like it "provides LOADS of pressure." It's actually about as fast as Molasses in January, compared to newer compressors, but it does work, does hold air and fits inside the shed just fine for airing up tires in there occasionally. I understand Mike wanting to keep his Grandpa Lynn's air compressor, so I sold the two cylinder Craftsman I brought from Kalispell, and originally the farm at Lewistown. The neighbor likes it, so everyone is happy. Gary

[Loadstar]

Well the air compressor in your ad this morning was quite similar to son Mike's Campbell-Hausfield "Farm 'n Field" air compressor that used to belong to Sharon's dad. The military tank was the most common thing, I guess?

I remember when he bought it at the Moore Farmer's Oil Company "Cenex" store. It was probably about 1958 or 59? His is set up so you can disconnect the hose from the tank, from the compressor, then unstrap the "WWII War Surplus" military air tank, to use as a portable tank. From your ad, it sounds like it "provides LOADS of pressure." It's actually about as fast as Molasses in January, compared to newer compressors, but it does work, does hold air and fits inside the shed just fine for airing up tires in there occasionally. I understand Mike wanting to keep his Grandpa Lynn's air compressor, so I sold the two cylinder Craftsman I brought from Kalispell, and originally the farm at Lewistown. The neighbor likes it, so everyone is happy. Gary

Gary, I do see the resemblance in the air tanks. No doubt a lot of army surplus stuff was on the market in those years and those tanks might have been ex military stuff.

I did find one of my Jeoffroy tillage ads. They were really promoting deep tillage in those days. From 1949.

[Delta Dirt]

Re: Acme advertisment a few posts back

The word "Acme" seems to have been a highly utilized company name through the years------wonder what its origin or meaning was???

DD

[Loadstar]

Re: Acme advertisment a few posts back

The word "Acme" seems to have been a highly utilized company name through the years------wonder what its origin or meaning was???

DD

Anson, every time I see or hear the name "Acme" I instantly am reminded of the many hours I spent as a kid watching the Bugs Bunny Show. Seems to me ole wiley coyote used to acquire most of his road runner stopping gadgets from Acme. No doubt there are other associations too.

I am going to take this opportunity to post a Farmall ad from 1949. Sometimes my descreen process on the scanner does not do a very job at "de screening" as you can see in this one.

[M Diesel]

From a greek word.

Noun

1. acme - the highest level or degree attainable

acme - the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development; "his landscapes were deemed the acme of beauty";

2. acme - the highest point (of something)acme - the highest point (of something); "at the peak of the pyramid"

[Delta Dirt]

Thanks M- Diesel.

Reckon your story on the cross country trip in the oil slurping 1700 was an "Acme story"!!!!!!!

DD

[Steve C.]

Some Acme stuff.

[Loadstar]

Some Acme stuff.

Now that is the kind of Acme stuff I was thinking of too Steve.

I'm posting this 1949 Towner plow ad for Gary Yaeger since the photo is somewhere in the Great Falls, Montana area. The Paul Bunyan plow. Its a big one at 45 feet and probably needed that D7 Cat up front to handle it.

[Old Binder Guy]

From a greek word.

Noun

1. acme - the highest level or degree attainable

acme - the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development; "his landscapes were deemed the acme of beauty";

2. acme - the highest point (of something)acme - the highest point (of something); "at the peak of the pyramid"

Acme is sort of like the acronym, Peerless. OBG

[Old Binder Guy]

Some Acme stuff.

Now that is the kind of Acme stuff I was thinking of too Steve.

I'm posting this 1949 Towner plow ad for Gary Yaeger since the photo is somewhere in the Great Falls, Montana area. The Paul Bunyan plow. Its a big one at 45 feet and probably needed that D7 Cat up front to handle it.

Ralph,

That's a neat "Towner" ad and now I remember hearing the name, but I wasn't familiar with any of their equipment. I remember someone in our area talking about a "Towner disk" though.

The sight near Great Falls was a familiar one. Between Dick O'Day and the Mehmke's there was always something exciting heading into "the falls" from the west.

Gary