Loadstar Posted April 15, 2014 Share Posted April 15, 2014 I just finished watching a fine Farmall M road trip video on youtube and it inspired me to post this ad featuring a Super M and Super W6. Didn't record the date but I'm guessing 1954? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loadstar Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 Another Cockshutt 96 series press drill for seeding time. This one a double hitch of twelve footers for the big farmers. Nice all weather cab to shelter the driver from those sometimes chilly spring winds. But better wear the ear plugs with that GM diesel screaming away under the hood of that 1900 tractor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Binder Guy Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 Ralph, I've been somewhat absent lately, here. This is something I ran into looking for something else in my files. This was a Reeves steam engine ad for a 20 hp cross compound in 1902. This early model was referred to by the old timers as "the boot top" smokestack type, built through 1903. Gary Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George 2 Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 Ralph: It is 1953. Notice the channel frame SW6 with the 18 inch wheels on front. That identifies it as 1953 only. The SW6TA came out for 1954 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loadstar Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 Gary, nice Reeves ad. Of course I have nothing quite that old in my collection. George, thanks for checking out that SW6 ad. I know you are better at identifying them than I am. I have another seed drill ad here, this one from Oliver. Kind of an interesting combination of high wheels and rubber tires. All the "high wheeler drills" that I ever saw were steel wheels. This one has some big diameter rubber tires. Might be hard to find a new set in that size. This ad from 1951. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A554 Posted April 18, 2014 Share Posted April 18, 2014 Combine seeders with big wheels were popular in Australia and still available into 1990s Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loadstar Posted April 18, 2014 Share Posted April 18, 2014 Combine seeders with big wheels were popular in Australia and still available into 1990s Yes, I have seen pictures of the John Shearer end wheel drills but not the actual drills. Somewhere I have some information on the first air seeders built by Morris Industries and it seems to me they incorporated that type of drill into their air seeder. For now here is something completely different that I happened to find today. Interesting to see the price of a new "anteater" back in March of 1981. More to come. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loadstar Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 Sorry for the low quality image here but I just clicked a quick photo while paging through some old papers today. Thought it was interesting to see how cheap you could buy a new pickup in 1969. Admittedly it is a pretty "bare bones" pickup but Ford sold a lot of them here in that time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loadstar Posted April 21, 2014 Share Posted April 21, 2014 This was a Texaco oil ad for winter of 1940 listing the advantages of using Texaco oils in your vehicle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Cook Posted April 21, 2014 Share Posted April 21, 2014 Ralph, That ad tells the truth. In the very early sixties, I worked at the Sioux City Air Force Base Exchange Standard Oil station. When winter came, the fellows that had been stationed or lived in the north, like Alaska, would come in and have their oil changed in their personal vehicles. They insisted on refilling with Havoline. Claimed it was the only oil that would allow an engine to crank up in the severe cold. So I eventually tried it myself. Drained the Standard Permalube out and filled with 10W Havoline. By golly, it worked! I didn't like the way it smelled though, so I changed back come warm weather. Ron Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loadstar Posted April 21, 2014 Share Posted April 21, 2014 Ralph, That ad tells the truth. In the very early sixties, I worked at the Sioux City Air Force Base Exchange Standard Oil station. When winter came, the fellows that had been stationed or lived in the north, like Alaska, would come in and have their oil changed in their personal vehicles. They insisted on refilling with Havoline. Claimed it was the only oil that would allow an engine to crank up in the severe cold. So I eventually tried it myself. Drained the Standard Permalube out and filled with 10W Havoline. By golly, it worked! I didn't like the way it smelled though, so I changed back come warm weather. Ron Ron, good to hear from someone that actually used the product. I think Texaco had disappeared in name by the time I started buying oil. BA is another name that has not been heard of in a while. Gulf oil eventually took over control and retired the BA name in the late 1960s. (British American oil). This ad from 1951. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loadstar Posted April 22, 2014 Share Posted April 22, 2014 This was a popular tillage tool here in the fifties. My dad had one for a while I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loadstar Posted April 23, 2014 Share Posted April 23, 2014 An old name in fertilizer was Sherrit as seen here in this 1966 ad. Couple of old Massey combines with (I think) an IH in between. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George 2 Posted April 23, 2014 Share Posted April 23, 2014 IH 141 in the center. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loadstar Posted April 24, 2014 Share Posted April 24, 2014 IH 141 in the center. This 141 is from the opposite angle but I think it is a close match to the one in the fertilizer ad. That big IH engine standing tall on top of the separator body. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Bud guy Posted April 24, 2014 Share Posted April 24, 2014 IH 141 in the center. This 141 is from the opposite angle but I think it is a close match to the one in the fertilizer ad. That big IH engine standing tall on top of the separator body. It could be a 127 too. Either way having the engine up there blowing chaff and dust right at you is not my idea of comfort for even back then. Don't ask me how I know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Binder Guy Posted April 24, 2014 Share Posted April 24, 2014 Ralph, Every time I see an IH 141 SP, I have to do a double take to make sure it isn't a 127 SP. My uncle had one of these and I'd guess my cousins still have it. Gary Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Bud guy Posted April 24, 2014 Share Posted April 24, 2014 Ralph, Every time I see an IH 141 SP, I have to do a double take to make sure it isn't a 127 SP. My uncle had one of these and I'd guess my cousins still have it. Gary IH 127 SP combine literature.jpg Nice. Looks like it is a 141 if the engine shielding is any indication. My neighbor has a junked 127. That's the only one I have ever seen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loadstar Posted April 24, 2014 Share Posted April 24, 2014 One major difference between the 127/141 and the Massey Harris 90s was engine accessibility. If you ever had to work on that old flathead Chrysler six down underneath the grain pan you would think the IH engine placement was a good idea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Bud guy Posted April 24, 2014 Share Posted April 24, 2014 One major difference between the 127/141 and the Massey Harris 90s was engine accessibility. If you ever had to work on that old flathead Chrysler six down underneath the grain pan you would think the IH engine placement was a good idea. Its a pain just checking the oil on the Massey. Made for a sleek low profile combine though. I still think I rather have that though then getting showered in chaff. Engine should have been on top and behind the grain tank like a JD 55. They had everyone beat with that layout. In my opinion IH didn't know how to build a combine until the 101/151/181 combines. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Binder Guy Posted April 24, 2014 Share Posted April 24, 2014 Ralph, Every time I see an IH 141 SP, I have to do a double take to make sure it isn't a 127 SP. My uncle had one of these and I'd guess my cousins still have it. Gary IH 127 SP combine literature.jpg Nice. Looks like it is a 141 if the engine shielding is any indication. My neighbor has a junked 127. That's the only one I have ever seen. Big bud Guy, They are quite similar, but the 141 has a hooded cover over the engine and the gas tank above, went down below on the 141, I believe. Gary Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delta Dirt Posted April 25, 2014 Share Posted April 25, 2014 Live and learn here on the forum. I always thought the 141s were the first IH combines to have the engine mounted up top. Engine was tough to get to on the 125 SP also----my dad parked the old 125 once he bought two 141s. He greatly improved the 141s by converting alot of the original belt drives to chain drives. Don't reckon I have ever seen a 127 either??? DD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George 2 Posted April 25, 2014 Share Posted April 25, 2014 The advertising literature shows the short air intake for the 141. The ones I have seen here in Ontario all had the big upward extension like the one in the picture, and it appears to have a hooded cover over the engine. That is why it appears to be a 141 as opposed to a 127. In reality a 141 was just a 127 with the live axle as opposed to the old chain drive axle. Maybe the rad air extension was an update from the 101, 151, 181 series. For sure the first large IH SP combines that sold well here were the 403 and 503 combines. When I first started farming back in the mid 1970's there were lots of used 403's on dealers lots. Since there was no obvious pick of the litter, I bought a new 715 corn and soybean special in 1978 and never looked back. I got about 16 years of good service from it before buying a used 1460. That old 715 paid for itself handsomely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loadstar Posted April 25, 2014 Share Posted April 25, 2014 Still looking for my 127 combine ad. Here is a better view of the 141 from 1954, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Binder Guy Posted April 25, 2014 Share Posted April 25, 2014 Delta Dirt, I'd run my uncle Bill's 141 before I ever saw uncle Fritz's used 127, so I'd been just like you, back then. In my mind, the 127 was something IH was trying to develop and was introduced and sold while it was still likely on the drawing board. The throttle panel was newer on the 141. The whole console around the steering was different and lots of little things that got changed. And like George said, they went from the chain drive concept to the live axle. I can't remember though... Did the 127 have the variable speed belt drive? Ralph, That 141 in your ad with that radiator grille... I've never seen one in reality. I didn't know this one existed? I'd only seen the tall screen type George speaks of, like in his photo with the two Massey-Harris combines. And Anson, speaking of those Masseys, that old 123 and 125 SP with the Green Diamond engine, they were a dream to work on the engines, compared to that blasted Massey-Harris, with their engines under the thresher. One summer, I helped my father in-law pull both Chrysler industrial flathead engines on his 90 and 92 Massey's just for deep servicing. We changed plugs and points; and naturally oil etc.and replaced the drive belts on both while out on skids. Everything we did would have been much easier to do on the old 123 and 125 IH combines, even if you did need to wear a hard hat to do it. The first picture is of me and my cousin James, with our first 123 SP combine. While I was very young in this picture, before it was traded off, I got to operate it on Dad's lap. The 125 SP he traded it for, I spent plenty of time on. And the 125 SPVC he traded that one for, I didn't think I'd outlive that one. This was my father in-law and my harvest outfit gathering in 1967. He only had the Massey-Harris 90 at that time. His 92 came a few years later. I had a new IH 403 Windrow Special in this photo. That was a pretty good combine and had an 18' header. Going from 14' to 18' was quite a mindset! I'd been looking for a used 181, as cousin James had a 151 and uncle Audie had two 181's, but this 403 came in and we (Dad and I) thought, why not. This 760 was the last combine I used before I left the farm a third of a century ago. It was one year old and a custom cutter's trade in. I got a good deal on it. It had the V-8 diesel Perkins and hydrostatic drive. I liked those features. You sure had to keep the radiator clean on it though, and that wasn't easy. So much for my "harvesting career" since I've digressed to an 28"X34" McCormick-Deering threshing machine today. I guess I've been around the barn and THEN digressed? Gary Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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