ST-470 Posted March 11, 2012 Posted March 11, 2012 and more 1400 series combine stuff............ Quote
Loadstar Posted March 11, 2012 Posted March 11, 2012 Interesting regional differences in those axial ads. Down south they have the corn headers and fields, up here in 79 the typical setup was the belt type pickup header picking up a swath of wheat. Heres an ad from 74 showing some of the haying equipment. Quote
A554 Posted March 12, 2012 Posted March 12, 2012 Something a bit different from the Massey Ferguson 1978 Farmers Buying Guide published in Australia. This is a sugar cane planter. Australia grows sugar cane in the tropical areas of northern Australia along the east coast. I understand sugar cane is grown by planting a short section of cane in the ground. I assume the cut pieces of cane are carried in the wheeled trailer part of this machine and then moved to the hopper of the planter attached to the tractor linkage. The cane plant is harvested annually for 5 or 6 years until yields decline and is then ploughed out and replanted. Quote
A554 Posted March 12, 2012 Posted March 12, 2012 Some more MF sugar cane machines from Australia. I understand MF played lead in developing cane harvesters in Australia initially with harvesters build around a tractor and then these integrated machines. These machines are harvesting cane that has been burnt to remove the tops and leaves from the cane. Nowadays the cane is harvested 'green' and the trash left in the field as mulch or raked and baled to be sold as garden mulch, stockfeed or transported to the sugar processing mill and burnt to provide power to the mill. The tractors and harvesters don't have cabs and it must have been many times when it was hot and humid operating these machines. Quote
A554 Posted March 12, 2012 Posted March 12, 2012 Not ads but a couple of photos of a Case IH sugar cane harvester working in southern Queensland in 2010. IH was also involved in cane harvesters in Australia starting in the 1960s and they took over a company called Austoft in the 1980s. The Australian manufacturing stopped in 2004 and was moved to Brazil. This machine is harvesting 'green' cane and there is a lot of trash left in the field. The tractors are Chamberlain 4080 models produced in the 1980s. Chamberlain had by then been bought out by John Deere and these tractors were powered by 6 cylinder JD engines producing 90 hp. The cut cane is collected in a bin carried on the trailer pulled by the tractor. The bin is designed to run on a light railway system operated by the sugar processing company. The trailer has a pair of rails and the trailer is backed up to a section of railway built as a ramp and the bin is winched onto the trailer. When it is full the bin is returned to the train tracks and later hauled to the mill by small diesel locos. Cane is also hauled by road trucks in areas without the rail system. Quote
Loadstar Posted March 12, 2012 Posted March 12, 2012 Not ads but a couple of photos of a Case IH sugar cane harvester working in southern Queensland in 2010. That sugarcane sure grows a tremendous height. Looks like the driver might need gps to know where he is driving. Probably takes a fair bit of horsepower to chop up all that green material. I've got just a plain old Loadstar ad here. This one features the new MV engines. Quote
TroyDairy Posted March 12, 2012 Posted March 12, 2012 That cane is a about the same hight as our corn silage! 18t/acre. You watch the rows to the right of the head to keep on track. In Cali Loadstar corn for silage gets about 15' tall. You can barley see the spout of the choppers! 50tons/acre with the cali silage. Cool ads guys keep 'em coming! Quote
Loadstar Posted March 12, 2012 Posted March 12, 2012 This little Power Horse was a unique little tractor available in the late 1940s. Sort of an early version of the skid steer loaders, minus the bucket. I don't know if they sold many. I've never seen one. Quote
A554 Posted March 13, 2012 Posted March 13, 2012 Two ads for Chamberlain Super 90 tractor produced in the 1960s. Powered by a GM 3 cylinder, two-stroke diesel producing 85 hp at 1500 RPM. These tractors are very collectable. Quote
Loadstar Posted March 13, 2012 Posted March 13, 2012 Two ads for Chamberlain Super 90 tractor produced in the 1960s. Powered by a GM 3 cylinder, two-stroke diesel producing 85 hp at 1500 RPM. These tractors are very collectable. Interesting. The Chamberlain Super 90 must have been a big tractor in it's day with those 23? inch tires on the back. A little curious to see the hookup on those two diskers in which the tractor runs nearly in the centre. Here we always had the hitches setup so the tractor ran either in or right beside the right furrow. I think I have posted this one before but it shows the tractor running right over by the furrow. Unfortunately the printer got the picture bacwards when the published it in the Country Guide magazine. Quote
Loadstar Posted March 14, 2012 Posted March 14, 2012 I guess Robin-Nodwell would have been considered a "short line" manufacturer here in the 1960s. Various attachments they sold are pictured here in this ad from 1965. Quote
fastcars63 Posted March 14, 2012 Posted March 14, 2012 Didn't New Idea made IH's round balers? Not the first ones. The 241 and 2400 where developed by IH and built in the Memphis TN plant. When IH closed Memphis they bought the hay tools from New Idea. I am not sure of the terms but IH built the 1190 mower conditioner, 1300 balance head mower, and New Idea wound up with the product. Quote
goodfarmall Posted March 14, 2012 Posted March 14, 2012 A couple of Allis ads. Local AC dealer sold more Cleaner combines in 60's & 70's than the other makes combined. Quote
Loadstar Posted March 14, 2012 Posted March 14, 2012 Nice to see my favourite (30 series) Case tractors in an ad. Heres one of mine from the 930 catalogue. The one on the left, western wheatland version with the big fenders was the most popular here. I recall seeing one of the GP models on the right . Quote
goodfarmall Posted March 14, 2012 Posted March 14, 2012 Couple of Oliver ads. Do not remember ever seeing one. Quote
Loadstar Posted March 14, 2012 Posted March 14, 2012 Couple of Oliver ads. Do not remember ever seeing one. We had lots of them here but they were painted red and called "Cockshutts". The 542 was a very popular machine. No corn headers of course. It seems we have not had much of a showing from the early 50s IH equipment line. Here is one for the McCormick Super WD9 from 1954. Quote
Loadstar Posted March 14, 2012 Posted March 14, 2012 And a couple of smaller models with the new torque amplifier option. Super W6 and Super M. TA hailed as the greatest thing since pneumatic tires. Quote
goodfarmall Posted March 14, 2012 Posted March 14, 2012 Here is a mailer I just got at the Winter Convention from the 50's Quote
A554 Posted March 15, 2012 Posted March 15, 2012 Two ads for Chamberlain Super 90 tractor produced in the 1960s. Powered by a GM 3 cylinder, two-stroke diesel producing 85 hp at 1500 RPM. These tractors are very collectable. Interesting. The Chamberlain Super 90 must have been a big tractor in it's day with those 23? inch tires on the back. A little curious to see the hookup on those two diskers in which the tractor runs nearly in the centre. Here we always had the hitches setup so the tractor ran either in or right beside the right furrow. I think I have posted this one before but it shows the tractor running right over by the furrow. Unfortunately the printer got the picture bacwards when the published it in the Country Guide magazine. The Chamberlain Super 90 was considered a 'big' tractor when most tractors on cropping properties were 50-60hp in the 1960s. The rear tyres on the Super 90 tractor are listed as 23.1 x 26 and 18.4 x 30 duals were an option. I cannot find any better pictures of the hitch used with these two ploughs but I assume the hitch is an A-frame on a pair of wheels. I have found a couple of tandem hitches available in the 1970s one sold by MF and a second used in the 1976 IH catalogue. These were popular with the availability of more powerful tractors and farmers using a pair of smaller implements together rather than buy a bigger unit straight away. Quote
A554 Posted March 15, 2012 Posted March 15, 2012 I have posted this Chamberlain ad as it shows a birds-eye view of a Chamberlain disc plough. These ploughs were very popular until the 1980s when chisel ploughs and heavy tyned cultivators took over. Most farms growing crops in Australia were also running sheep and cattle with a rotation of pastures and crops. The ploughs were mainly used to plough out the pastures in the spring to prepare fallows for crops to be sown in the autumn. These ploughs are much heavier construction than the discers Ralph posted. Each disc is mounted on an independant arm that is able to rise over any rocks or stumps it encountered minimising any damage. A large spring provided the down pressure on each disc and later versions used hydraulic cylinders. The plough is designed to run with the tractor on the land and they were not made to be joined together with other ploughs. There is an art to setting the plough to work properly and the additional 'weight' of another plough would make it difficult to get the front plough to work properly. I have seen ploughs worked in tandem by using a chain from the tractor to the rear plough - a pretty rough way of hitching. Quote
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