Vintage Ads

[Delta Dirt]

Case always focused on fuel economy-----don't reckon we can get out of the shop yard for 12 1/2 cents with today's prices.

Old Abe is sure looking noble over there in the corner.

DD

[Loadstar]

Case always focused on fuel economy-----don't reckon we can get out of the shop yard for 12 1/2 cents with today's prices.

Old Abe is sure looking noble over there in the corner.

DD

You got that right Anson. that kind of fuel economy is only a dream these days.

Been a long day and its late so here is a random pic of the first ad in my files. A 1940 Mobiloil Arctic ad.

[Delta Dirt]

Are you getting in the field some now Ralph?

Reckon I remember the flying Mobil horse about as long as the Case eagle. That's a colorful ad for its time.

DD

[A554]

Almost everybody around here pulled a plow and drills together at one time or another. We call them double hookups. Still have a few neighbors doing it. One is pulling a 40ft Flexi Coil 820 with 4 10ft JD 9350s. Another neighbor has two sets consisting of a CIH 9380, 40ft FC plows, and 4 10ft JD 9450s. Back in the day grandpa pulled a 32ft JD 250F plow with four 8ft JD LZB drills with a JD 5010. Later on in the early 80s we pulled a 48ft Morris with six JD LZB drills with a Versatile 950.

Back in the days before good chemical weed control we liked to pre work the field and let it lay to dry a day or so for the weeds to dry up and die. Otherwise, hit it too soon behind the cultivator and those press wheels on the drill would just transplant your weeds and wild oats and they would be growing before the crop came up.

According to this 1938 ad some farmers did use the "once over" seeding method. This man pulling a "wheatland plow" although they were generally known here as a tiller. Case press drill right behind it putting in the seed. Seems it would have been simpler just to buy the seeding box attachment for the tiller and eliminate one machine. He would need to pull packers behind the tiller of course to duplcate the press drill action. Of course there is no way a tiller is going to give the precise seed placement that the press drill would have. Either way that old L Case was putting in the crop at a fuel cost of 12 and a half cents per acre.

I have posted these ads before but they show the cultivator drills that were popular in Australia before the introduction of air seeders.

These seeders had several rows of cultivating tynes ahead of the seeding tynes and they were used to provide a weed kill as well as sowing the seeds.

These seeders were called "combines" in Australia which was more about combining the seed and fertiliser together.

Combines were often used for cultivating only just before the seeding operation to provide a weed kill. They were often wider than the cultivator and could get over the area quicker.

[Old Binder Guy]

Ralph,

I've been absent for some time. My computer caught a virus and the technician said the can of Campbell's chicken noodle soup I dumped into it didn't help him out much. I saw conversation about IH grain drills and thought I could post them this morning. I pulled a chisel plow behind the 4568 and ahead of the three 12' IH 150 shovel drills. Mostly for using it as a hitch, and it helped loosen the compaction from the tractor. The 1256 was actually pulling a 14' and a 12' 150 shovel drill. I used 10" spacing drills. This was in another lifetime, it seems; in the late 1970's. Gary

[Loadstar]

Are you getting in the field some now Ralph?

Reckon I remember the flying Mobil horse about as long as the Case eagle. That's a colorful ad for its time.

DD

In the field, on the road, burning up lots of expensive fuel and putting expensive fertilizer in the ground.

Here is an ad for a 1951 David Brown. Much like the one I saw in town today on the back of a truck.

[A554]

Another ad for David Brown tractors - this one from 1955.

They were popular in Australia but the Ferguson TEA 20 was more popular. David Brown continued selling here until the merger with

case.

[Loadstar]

Another ad for David Brown tractors - this one from 1955.

They were popular in Australia but the Ferguson TEA 20 was more popular. David Brown continued selling here until the merger with

case.

We did see a few David Browns after the local Case dealer started getting a few in.

I never saw any of these front wheel assist 7 and 806 tractors either but IH introduced them in 1964 according to this ad.

[Old Binder Guy]

Ralph,

My cousins have a 660 with the front wheel assist and I believe I remember two 806 tractors that Bourke Motor sold with it in central Montana. Gary

[Mark (EC,IN)]

Ralph,

My cousins have a 660 with the front wheel assist and I believe I remember two 806 tractors that Bourke Motor sold with it in central Montana. Gary

I'm pretty sure the 660 had to be after-market.

[dale560]

you would be surprised how many mfwd 806s were sold here in western nd. not lots but you see one for sale a year about. the guy in minot buys them and sends them west. my dad always talks about tractors with fwd sat on the lots new or slightly used and guys would trade them for 2wd.

[Loadstar]

Gary, that mfd 660 would be a rare one. Can't say I have ever heard of or seen one. It would be interesting to see a picture of one.

Here is the typical 660 as seen in 1963.

[Old Binder Guy]

Ralph,

That's a neat 660 ad you posted. (and Mark EC, IN) I too, doubt that front assist came on the tractor. now that I think of it? My uncle bought the 660 used back in the late 1960's. I remember it had a real weird cab of some type too. I have no photos of it.

This is the 660 I had for a few years and Farmall Kid (son Mike) on it plowing "the rock pile" circa 1978. Gary

[Loadstar]

Ralph,

That's a neat 660 ad you posted. (and Mark EC, IN) I too, doubt that front assist came on the tractor. now that I think of it? My uncle bought the 660 used back in the late 1960's. I remember it had a real weird cab of some type too. I have no photos of it.

This is the 660 I had for a few years and Farmall Kid (son Mike) on it plowing "the rock pile" circa 1978. Gary

Gary, the first 660 I ever saw had a home built plywood and plexiglass cab on it.

You mentioned Kelley Springfield tires over on the IH tractors on Montana Farm thread and I sure do remember that name. In fact I still have one on the Cockshutt 50. A Kelley Kant Slip is the name.

Here is a tire brand that I had never heard of before this ad came up. Lee tires from Conshohocken PA. 1952.

[Old Binder Guy]

Ralph,

I do remember Lee tires, but I hadn't heard the name for a good long time though.

Gary

[Steve C.]

We put a set of Lees on my wife's Maxima 10 or 12 years ago. They were a little noisier than the Goodyears she has now, but we got about 70,000 out of them. Haven't seen any since then, though.

[Mark (EC,IN)]

Gary, that mfd 660 would be a rare one. Can't say I have ever heard of or seen one. It would be interesting to see a picture of one.

Here is the typical 660 as seen in 1963.

Here is a 560 with a MFWD added (I took the picture at Farmall Land a couple years ago). I have a picture of a 660 with MFWD added that I took at Rantoul a few years ago also, but It's not on this computer and the wife will have to scan it before I can post (I'm a computer dummy)

Also A 460 with the attachment

If I remember correct, these units drove off the belt pulley drive somehow.

[Loadstar]

Gary, that mfd 660 would be a rare one. Can't say I have ever heard of or seen one. It would be interesting to see a picture of one.

Here is the typical 660 as seen in 1963.

Here is a 560 with a MFWD added (I took the picture at Farmall Land a couple years ago). I have a picture of a 660 with MFWD added that I took at Rantoul a few years ago also, but It's not on this computer and the wife will have to scan it before I can post (I'm a computer dummy)

Also A 460 with the attachment

If I remember correct, these units drove off the belt pulley drive somehow.

Those are interesting views of the 60 series tractors with front wheel drive Mark. The add on looks good enough for factory.

More on obsolete tire names. Dunlop was another name I grew up with but never hear any of for a while now. This ad from 1952.

[Loadstar]

And while on the subject of tires, back in 1948 Firestone was promoting the advantages of big soft, low pressure, super balloon tires.

[M Diesel]

Dunlop still makes tires, in the shed I have several fairly new dirt bike tires by them.

Remember a Donald Duck where he wins a new car? He thinks the nephews are pulling a fast one about the car and trashes it. At one point he over inflates the tires and they float away into the sky. While watching them he hears the radio announcer talk about the super balloon tires on the car he has just won.

[Loadstar]

Dunlop still makes tires, in the shed I have several fairly new dirt bike tires by them.

Remember a Donald Duck where he wins a new car? He thinks the nephews are pulling a fast one about the car and trashes it. At one point he over inflates the tires and they float away into the sky. While watching them he hears the radio announcer talk about the super balloon tires on the car he has just won.

No, I had not seen that cartoon before, but I have now thanks to youtube.

[M Diesel]

THAT'S the one!

Art, I don't think many of us are surprised at your assessment

[Loadstar]

THAT'S the one!

Art, I don't think many of us are surprised at your assessment

I found Donald Duck a little annoying with that hard to understand voice of his,

Here is a nice Goodyear tire ad from 1956, I remember those Hi Miler brand truck tires. In fact I think I still have one on one of the old IH trucks.

[Loadstar]

General Tire had some nice colorful ads in the 1940s.

[Loadstar]

A 1963 BA fuel ad showing a typical spring time in Sask. scene. Planting the crop with the legendary Massey Ferguson 36 disker with big Massey power up front. I think those were the first tractors I ever saw with front wheel assist. Model 97 I believe.