Loadstar Posted March 22, 2014 Share Posted March 22, 2014 Nice view of the 86 series cab in this ad. I'm guessing the "totally new concept in 4x4 power" they mention is probably the 2+2 tractors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George 2 Posted March 22, 2014 Share Posted March 22, 2014 Fall 1978 ad. Notice the long gearshift levers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
664 CDN Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 Ralph I think the 2+2 were 3588 to 6788, but used the same cab. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loadstar Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 Guys, I am no authority on the 86 ( or any other) series IH tractors and I forgot to record the date on that previous ad. This one however is clearly dated March 1977 . So here we have the new series 86 tractors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loadstar Posted March 24, 2014 Share Posted March 24, 2014 While scanning the upcoming farm auctions in Sask. I came across this interesting 47 Ford Coupe. I don't have an ad for the coupe version but here is a nice 46 two door sedan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
664 CDN Posted March 24, 2014 Share Posted March 24, 2014 Better grab it Ralph, all you need is some air in the tires, glass & a front clip. Dad bought a new 48 ford when I was a kid. Ray Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loadstar Posted March 24, 2014 Share Posted March 24, 2014 Better grab it Ralph, all you need is some air in the tires, glass & a front clip. Dad bought a new 48 ford when I was a kid. Ray Ray, that was a nice 48 Ford you got to ride in. I think maybe you need this 47 coupe but I'll admit it is a long haul to your place. I kind of liked the looks of the 56 Fords like the one in this Hertz ad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loadstar Posted March 24, 2014 Share Posted March 24, 2014 And yes, there is a 56 four door sedan at the same auction. http://www.farmauctionguide.com/collectible-vehicle-and-equipment-auction-for-fred-and-marion-laval-and-guests-s-156877.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevingweq Posted March 24, 2014 Share Posted March 24, 2014 Well it's not an advertisement , But my Dad certainly tried to keep the Ford namesake alive and well and in the public's eye. No matter how shiny , rare, clean and straight his cars and trucks were they got driven , He enjoyed looking at " Trailer Queens " But he enjoyed driving his collection even more , Here's Dad in his 1959 Ford Retractable Dad George "Jolly" Wheeler 1929-2004 We took the Retractable and our 26' T Touring Car Down to a football parade about 20 years ago I was driving the 59' and on the way there I got a little exuberant going through a sweeping corner And i heard a hubcap go flying off , I was running a little late but stopped anyhow to try and find it but no luck, Got to the parade and within 5 seconds Dad says ,where the heck is my hubcap !! Then I heard all about how he never lost a hubcap ,and if I had been paying attention , He was to say the least a bit upset , We had some spares Thank Goodness !! Well about a year later he was driving the car and lost the hubcap from the same wheel on the same corner I did , And stopped ,looked and could not find the darn thing , He came home and told me about losing it , and mentioned how the wheel must be bent or something haha !! So we hop in the pickup and go in search of a hubcap ,We spend a good 40 minutes or so looking in bushes backyards , we had just about given up when dad spots a broken window on a garage door and he peeks inside there's the hubcap laying on the floor amongst a pile of shattered glass , He whips open the door grabs the hubcap and loudly whispers to me Let's Go !! , We got about a half mile away and we both started to giggle like school girls then started belly laughing all the way home , Always smile when I drive by that garage Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brady Boy Posted March 25, 2014 Share Posted March 25, 2014 I vividly remember my father's brand new 59' Ford Custom, I was 7. Didn't start as well in the winter as mother's 1940 Ford Coupe, but I was dazzled. Odd how my father was always a Ford man, in spite of the fact he's retired from Generous Motors. BK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loadstar Posted March 25, 2014 Share Posted March 25, 2014 Well it's not an advertisement , But my Dad certainly tried to keep the Ford namesake alive and well and in the public's eye. We took the Retractable and our 26' T Touring Car Down to a football parade about 20 years ago I was driving the 59' and on the way there I got a little exuberant going through a sweeping corner And i heard a hubcap go flying off , , He whips open the door grabs the hubcap and loudly whispers to me Let's Go !! , We got about a half mile away and we both started to giggle like school girls then started belly laughing all the way home , Always smile when I drive by that garage Kevin, I thought you were going to say you found both hubcaps in the garage. That is a fine looking 59 your dad had. I always liked the looks of the fifties Fords. There is even a 59 Meteor at this same auction sale. Little rusty though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loadstar Posted March 25, 2014 Share Posted March 25, 2014 Back in 1952 you could buy a Ford or Monarch car or a Fordson Major tractor all from the same dealer. At least that is how it looks from reading this ad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevingweq Posted March 26, 2014 Share Posted March 26, 2014 Ralph I'm not a 100% sure but I think Monarch was an English tractor brand I sure would like to have a Ford Monarch sign though Very Neat !! Found this ad thought it was interesting and quite resourceful One question I pondered over though , is well water temperature the same as ground temperature ??? Well water always seemed colder to me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loadstar Posted March 26, 2014 Share Posted March 26, 2014 Ralph I'm not a 100% sure but I think Monarch was an English tractor brand I sure would like to have a Ford Monarch sign though Very Neat !! Found this ad thought it was interesting and quite resourceful One question I pondered over though , is well water temperature the same as ground temperature ??? Well water always seemed colder to me Keven I think well water and ground water are the same temp. It was common practice to use a well to store some food items in the days before refrigeration or electricity on the farms. Around here the "ice house" was a popular alternative for keeping things cool on the farm. A hole in the ground would be filled up with ice or snow in the winter and covered with sawdust. My grandpa built a little log house over his. It was where the milk and cream were stored until ready to ship them to market. And that Monarch name would be referring to the cars. Just a re-badged version of the Mercury as seen here in this 1952 ad. I want one! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevingweq Posted March 26, 2014 Share Posted March 26, 2014 Very interesting , Very sharp car !!! Monarch was very popular up in your neck of the woods , I did a little searching and the Monarch Tractor had a small Ford 10hp engine in it , But other than that no connection to fomoco. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loadstar Posted March 26, 2014 Share Posted March 26, 2014 Very interesting , Very sharp car !!! Monarch was very popular up in your neck of the woods , I did a little searching and the Monarch Tractor had a small Ford 10hp engine in it , But other than that no connection to fomoco. There were not so many Mercury/ Monarchs around here. More of the Ford/Meteor it seemed. The lower cost Fords. I like this 52 Customline convertible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Binder Guy Posted March 26, 2014 Share Posted March 26, 2014 Kevin, My wife always grumbles at me for putting things in "tupperware", letting them get pushed to the back of the refrigerator until they spoil and "stink up" her refrigerator, so she has to clean it. The next time, I'll just show her the Willis and say, there! You didn't have to ride the elevator down to clean up the Willis!! We had an ice house on the ranch. It was used for lawnmowers, toys, lawn furniture, etc. and not ice by the time I came along. The first I remember was an electric Westinghouse refrigerator, that my mom continued to call an "Ice Box." The old oak four door Automatic Ice Box was in the basement "fruit room", a room with shelves, hundreds of jars of stuff I wouldn't even think of opening and eating, and the room had a dirt floor. Hanging in the ice house were several ice tongs, a huge ice saw and there was sawdust everywhere. The walls were filled with sawdust. Dad said the ice usually lasted into July. Harvesting ice in the winter was an annual event, until the ice house was stacked with it and covered with sawdust. This is a 1930's picture of Grandma Yaeger's yard with bum lambs, the clothes line in the distant right, the "clinker wagon" for the coal furnace and the ice house. The little "house" beyond the ice house was the cover over the root cellar. Down there were potatoes, fishing hip boots, inner tubes, carrots, gunnysacks, etc. The ice house burned in about 1980. We had a litter of German Shepherd puppies and the mommy in there. The heat lamp got too close to the straw, or they got it down onto the straw. The mommy chewed a hole big enough to get out of the door and saved several of her puppies. When we awakened in the morning, I looked out and the ice house was gone!! We never knew it, nor did anyone else notice it burning, I guess? Gary Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loadstar Posted March 26, 2014 Share Posted March 26, 2014 Kevin, We had an ice house on the ranch. It was used for lawnmowers, toys, lawn furniture, etc. and not ice by the time I came along. The ice house burned in about 1980. Gary Gary, I was actually "lucky enough" to get to help filling the ice house when I was a kid. Would have to have been the early sixties before there was a fridge. I can remember just shoveling snow into the pit under the little log ice house. The most unique feature of this ice house is that it's corrugated iron roof was actually originally the roof of my grandfather's Rock Island Heider tractor. Or so I was told. You can see the ice house in the background of this photo from the late 1940s. That "implement" in the foreground is a stoneboat and I guess many people will not have a clue what it was used for. Mainly hauling stones off the fields but also anything else that needed hauling on the farm. Feed, water, manure, even people in some situations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Binder Guy Posted March 26, 2014 Share Posted March 26, 2014 Ralph, I know a stone boat was for loading stones in the field, but in this late spring snowstorm (notice the half-cab of our 1947 Jeep sticking out of the drift), we used a TD-40 TracTracTor and a stone boat to feed baled hay with. Nothing else could make it to the cows and we even had to shovel out the TD-40 once, after it fell through a hard drift. No picture of the occasion, but I still picture it in my mind. There was no school for a few days either. Gary Snow in Lewistown, Montana. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
664 CDN Posted March 26, 2014 Share Posted March 26, 2014 Kevin, We had an ice house on the ranch. It was used for lawnmowers, toys, lawn furniture, etc. and not ice by the time I came along. The ice house burned in about 1980. Gary Gary, I was actually "lucky enough" to get to help filling the ice house when I was a kid. Would have to have been the early sixties before there was a fridge. I can remember just shoveling snow into the pit under the little log ice house. The most unique feature of this ice house is that it's corrugated iron roof was actually originally the roof of my grandfather's Rock Island Heider tractor. Or so I was told. You can see the ice house in the background of this photo from the late 1940s. That "implement" in the foreground is a stoneboat and I guess many people will not have a clue what it was used for. Mainly hauling stones off the fields but also anything else that needed hauling on the farm. Feed, water, manure, even people in some situations. Ralph I actually have my stone boat operators licence, dated about 1954, there is no expiry date LOL. I still have the remains of the old stone boat with a cast iron front. Used it for the stones that were too heavy to lift on the wagon. Gary that snow reminds me of the 3 day blizzard we had on Mar. 3 1947 Ray Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevingweq Posted March 26, 2014 Share Posted March 26, 2014 We had quite a storm in 1978 here on the east coast 55+ inches of snow 125 mph winds and literally hundreds of miles of roads choked with stranded, abandoned cars , My dad had gone into the Logan Airport we had a contract for repairing the runway equipment , he did not come home for 3 weeks , I was 12 and in charge of the snow cleanup and darn near wore the old 5hp Snowbird snowblower out , I remember it used 3 quarts of oil before it was done, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
664 CDN Posted March 26, 2014 Share Posted March 26, 2014 Kevin, I also remember the storm in 78. I think that,s when they had to use a bulldozer to open hwy. 21 after a couple weeks to get much needed heating oil & other supplies to several isolated towns with a convoy of trucks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ray54 Posted March 27, 2014 Share Posted March 27, 2014 Monarch I believe was a stand alone company that built crawler tractors in the early 1900's.They became a part of Allis Chalmers or the Monarch name may have been something AC used on the early crawlers. Ray Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loadstar Posted March 27, 2014 Share Posted March 27, 2014 Monarch I believe was a stand alone company that built crawler tractors in the early 1900's.They became a part of Allis Chalmers or the Monarch name may have been something AC used on the early crawlers. Ray Sure enough, the Monarch company was bought by Allis Chalmers in 1928. http://books.google.ca/books?id=vXUgeSYvtlEC&pg=PA114&lpg=PA114&dq=Monarch+Allis+Chalmers&source=bl&ots=GoOL56Ghdw&sig=wGNiv7R-0hzaVMjKGVnEcjXsjHE&hl=en&sa=X&ei=8H0zU8qoMaj8yAGZ7YGgCQ&ved=0CFYQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=Monarch%20Allis%20Chalmers&f=false Here is a combination Allis Chalmers and Cockshutt ad from (I think) about 1930. Its an old brochure I happened to have here. Apparently Cockshutt was selling Allis Chalmers tractors at the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George 2 Posted March 27, 2014 Share Posted March 27, 2014 Bill Cockshutt stated they initially paired up with A-C for a short period but there were issues and they later teamed up with Oliver until they built their own tractors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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