Vintage Ads

[Brady Boy]

Stumbled onto this Brochure while at the Puget Sound Show. Hope it fits in here. More pages to follow, when I get time.

BK

[Loadstar]

Stumbled onto this Brochure while at the Puget Sound Show. Hope it fits in here. More pages to follow, when I get time.

BK

Very fitting I would say. I don't have any of those magazines. Here is a Canadian version from ten years earlier. No specific brands, just a look at what all the various farm equipment companies had to offer. Looks like a W4 McCormick advertising Goodyear tires. There were a lot of them around here in 1949 I think.

[jordi 1455]

Fiatagri 90 series, in america sold as Hesston.90 series

[Old Binder Guy]

Stumbled onto this Brochure while at the Puget Sound Show. Hope it fits in here. More pages to follow, when I get time.

BK

Very fitting I would say. I don't have any of those magazines. Here is a Canadian version from ten years earlier. No specific brands, just a look at what all the various farm equipment companies had to offer. Looks like a W4 McCormick advertising Goodyear tires. There were a lot of them around here in 1949 I think.

Ralph,

I was just looking at the headlight mountings on that little W-4 McCormick. I've never seen any mounted there before. Has anyone else?

[Loadstar]

Fiatagri 90 series, in america sold as Hesston.90 series

There is one of those Hesstons not too far from me.

Gary, not sure on the headlight arrangement but seems to me I have seen both styles. Here is the other option, up front. As seen on a 1954 W6,

[664 CDN]

Stumbled onto this Brochure while at the Puget Sound Show. Hope it fits in here. More pages to follow, when I get time.

BK

Very fitting I would say. I don't have any of those magazines. Here is a Canadian version from ten years earlier. No specific brands, just a look at what all the various farm equipment companies had to offer. Looks like a W4 McCormick advertising Goodyear tires. There were a lot of them around here in 1949 I think.

Ralph,

I was just looking at the headlight mountings on that little W-4 McCormick. I've never seen any mounted there before. Has anyone else?

Most likely had belt work & was tired of turning the right light upside down on the front frame.

[Brady Boy]

Hope Harry Krell of Espanola WA, doesn't mind me borrowing his Tractor Farming Magazine. BK

[Brady Boy]

Farm Ability 1959

[The_CSMs_Wife]

I haven't been really following this thread regularly, but The CSM has and he wanted me to add these images of ads he found during his deployment to Iraq in 2005.

[Loadstar]

Ralph,

I was just looking at the headlight mountings on that little W-4 McCormick. I've never seen any mounted there before. Has anyone else?

Most likely had belt work & was tired of turning the right light upside down on the front frame.

Ray, I expect you are right about the belt work and headlight interference in that low position. Here is a W6 with the low mounted headlights too. As well as that modern and comfortable Macdonald cab. From 1948.

[Loadstar]

Farm Ability 1959

That is a good looking B series pickup and it reminds me of my own. Or this ad for a really sharp looking 4x4 version.

[Old Binder Guy]

Ralph,

This was Dad's 1958 A-120 4X4, close to the B-120 4X4. I was hauling home two old IHC or McCormick-Deering Type M gas engines as about a sophomore in HS. Gary

[Loadstar]

I haven't been really following this thread regularly, but The CSM has and he wanted me to add these images of ads he found during his deployment to Iraq in 2005.

Interesting to see the litttle IH available even in Iraq.

Gary, its always nice to see that A120 four wheeler on here.

I just discovered I have this ad for the IH 1971 pickups. Available with 5 speed manual trans.

[Brady Boy]

News, hot off the press! BK

[Loadstar]

News, hot off the press! BK

Nice to see that IH had their own newsletter along the lines of JD with their "Furrow" magazine.

Here is a 1951 Case DC tractor ad. I wonder if any one farmer kept both front ends on hand to switch back and forth for different jobs?

My uncle switched his narrow front DC over to a wide axle and never changed back.

[Brady Boy]

News, hot off the press! BK

Nice to see that IH had their own newsletter along the lines of JD with their "Furrow" magazine.

Here is a 1951 Case DC tractor ad. I wonder if any one farmer kept both front ends on hand to switch back and forth for different jobs?

My uncle switched his narrow front DC over to a wide axle and never changed back.

Did they have different designations for the same tractor, depending if it had a narrow or wide front end? BK

[Brady Boy]

The NEW No. 15 Field Harvester. BK

[twostepn2001]

News, hot off the press! BK

Nice to see that IH had their own newsletter along the lines of JD with their "Furrow" magazine.

Here is a 1951 Case DC tractor ad. I wonder if any one farmer kept both front ends on hand to switch back and forth for different jobs?

My uncle switched his narrow front DC over to a wide axle and never changed back.

Back in the 50's and 60's, on the south plains of Texas, they changed out the front ends pretty often. In the fall, they would put on the single tire front to mount up a cotton stripper. Soon as the harvest was done, they would switch to a wide front to plow, list then plant with. Soon as the cotton was tall enough, they would switch to the narrow dual wheel narrow to run a cultivator with. Also if they was going to run a crustbuster or knifing rig, they would put 4" spacers on the narrow dual fronts so it would straddle the beds.

When switching between the single wheel and dual wheel narrow fronts, Dad could do it by himself in probably a hour or less. When they put on the wide front, he usually had a "illegal immigrant" helper to mount it up and have it finished in about a hour so too.

All they ever used was some 4x4 wood blocks and a house jack, or as lot of people called it.....a dentist jack. If you didn't latch the handle right, it would come up and remove all your teeth....lol

[Steve C.]

News, hot off the press! BK

Nice to see that IH had their own newsletter along the lines of JD with their "Furrow" magazine.

Here is a 1951 Case DC tractor ad. I wonder if any one farmer kept both front ends on hand to switch back and forth for different jobs?

My uncle switched his narrow front DC over to a wide axle and never changed back.

Back in the 50's and 60's, on the south plains of Texas, they changed out the front ends pretty often. In the fall, they would put on the single tire front to mount up a cotton stripper. Soon as the harvest was done, they would switch to a wide front to plow, list then plant with. Soon as the cotton was tall enough, they would switch to the narrow dual wheel narrow to run a cultivator with. Also if they was going to run a crustbuster or knifing rig, they would put 4" spacers on the narrow dual fronts so it would straddle the beds.

When switching between the single wheel and dual wheel narrow fronts, Dad could do it by himself in probably a hour or less. When they put on the wide front, he usually had a "illegal immigrant" helper to mount it up and have it finished in about a hour so too.

All they ever used was some 4x4 wood blocks and a house jack, or as lot of people called it.....a dentist jack. If you didn't latch the handle right, it would come up and remove all your teeth....lol

We called those handyman jacks, or jawbreakers.

[Loadstar]

Back in the 50's and 60's, on the south plains of Texas, they changed out the front ends pretty often.

When switching between the single wheel and dual wheel narrow fronts, Dad could do it by himself in probably a hour or less. When they put on the wide front, he usually had a "illegal immigrant" helper to mount it up and have it finished in about a hour so too.

All they ever used was some 4x4 wood blocks and a house jack, or as lot of people called it.....a dentist jack. If you didn't latch the handle right, it would come up and remove all your teeth....lol

Since there was no row cropping here it was not too common to see narrow front tractors. A few showed up during the post WWII machinery shortage when dealers imported them for customers desperate for any tractor they could get.

Here is a newer Case narrow front, 1958 800 ad. The ads appeared in the Country Guide here but I doubt Case sold anything other than wide front , non three point tractors out here in the West.

[George 2]

True statement about the west and no 3pt or NF. Here in Ontario everything was 3 pt and even some NFs. Just this past week at the local elevator, a gentleman from about 3 miles northwest of me had his International 806 out hauling loads of wheat. This International 806 has both 3 pt hitch and adjustable wide front axle (short wheelbase). The wheels appeared to be set on about a 80 inch tread. Not too common a combination.

[Loadstar]

True statement about the west and no 3pt or NF. Here in Ontario everything was 3 pt and even some NFs. Just this past week at the local elevator, a gentleman from about 3 miles northwest of me had his International 806 out hauling loads of wheat. This International 806 has both 3 pt hitch and adjustable wide front axle (short wheelbase). The wheels appeared to be set on about a 80 inch tread. Not too common a combination.

In the early seventies when we wanted to get a snow blower but didn't like the price of the front mount models, we looked at three point hitch snow blowers which were far less money. The problem was finding a decent sized used tractor with three point hitch. Plenty of little Ford Ns and Fergusons to choose from but they were too small. We ended up building a three point hitch to fit the Cockshutt 40 tractor. Three point lift links and draft arms came from , what else but an old Fordson Major. The original owner had thrown the parts into the long grass when he got the tractor as he had no need for them.

Here is one of the little Fergusons that were popular as chore tractors. Although I think the Fords were more popular.

[George 2]

The reason 3pt was so popular in the east was that there were a lot of Fords and Fergusons. Oliver and Case on the 55 and VA series respectively also had it. As such there was an early changeover from the old pull type 2 furrow plows to the 3 pt 2 furrow type. There were also a few A-C Snap Coupler equipped WD-45 tractors. Even IH Canada chimed in with good mounted plows for the Super A (A212) and Super C (C214). They were not 3 point and they actually functioned better than a 3 pt plow. There is one in my shed mounted on the Super C my parents bought new in 1953.

Even some of the bigger tractors in the area had 3pt. One of the neighbours had a Cockshutt 40 with 3pt from the factory. Another had a JD 50 with 3pt from the factory

[Loadstar]

The reason 3pt was so popular in the east was that there were a lot of Fords and Fergusons.

I figured there was a fair bit of row cropping down East. Corn, tobacco, etc. There were a few that tried farming big acres here with the litttle Fords way back but they did not stand up well to the heavy work.

Here is an ad from 1971 for Nabob West coffee showing a little Ford N at work in wheatland swathing.

[Ron Cook]

The reason 3pt was so popular in the east was that there were a lot of Fords and Fergusons. Oliver and Case on the 55 and VA series respectively also had it. As such there was an early changeover from the old pull type 2 furrow plows to the 3 pt 2 furrow type. There were also a few A-C Snap Coupler equipped WD-45 tractors. Even IH Canada chimed in with good mounted plows for the Super A (A212) and Super C (C214). They were not 3 point and they actually functioned better than a 3 pt plow. There is one in my shed mounted on the Super C my parents bought new in 1953.

Even some of the bigger tractors in the area had 3pt. One of the neighbours had a Cockshutt 40 with 3pt from the factory. Another had a JD 50 with 3pt from the factory

No ad here, I am just sneaking in to ask a question.

I recently obtained an A193 plow for my Super A. The share and moldboard are completely worn out. Must have been plowing gravel. I need to just replace the whole thing, probably with something with modern shares. What do you suggest I look for.

Ron