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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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 :)

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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

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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. :P 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.

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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.

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Ralph I'm not a 100% sure but I think Monarch was an English tractor brand :unsure: I sure would like to have a Ford Monarch sign though Very Neat !!

Found this ad thought it was interesting and quite resourceful

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One question I pondered over though , is well water temperature the same as ground temperature ???

Well water always seemed colder to me :huh:

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Ralph I'm not a 100% sure but I think Monarch was an English tractor brand :unsure: 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 :huh:

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! :)

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 ;)

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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.

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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 ;)

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Snow in Lewistown, Montana.

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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

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Ray

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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,

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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

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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.

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