Vintage Ads

[Loadstar]

11 minutes ago, 806 man said:

 First smile on a farmers face with a combine in a rain storm I've ever seen,  Hard to come by in our area anyway. Nice ad otherwise.

Oh man, I totally missed that ad when it was originally posted. Thanks for bringing it back to the front page. I've seen a few 402 pull types here but they were never as popular as the 914 that followed. I have posted a 402 ad somewhere way back in this thread but not as nice as that one. 

Here is a page from the Case model A pull type brochure much like the one my dad had for years. 

 

[lightninboy]

Hey, Ralph, you got any ads of Farmhand trip bucket loaders small enough for a Farmall C?

[dale560]

Never had a 402 combine but the 806, and 7020 dad had put a lot of hours on the 7020 he traded it for a 8630. The 7520s neighbors had and potato guy I worked a lot for had the 7020 and two 7520s.

[Steve C.]

Got to run a 7520 pulling a Glencoe Soil Saver back in the late '80s. Wouldn't start a load, but pulled hard once you had it wound out. Could lug it down to 16 - 1800 rpms and it kept going. Huge black cloud when you throttled it up.

It was crude, but I had a ball running it.

The 7020 must have been pretty doggy with the 404 in it, even if it was cranked.

[Loadstar]

On 12/13/2016 at 8:06 PM, Big Bud guy said:

They were popular here too.  Here is a scan of its little brother the 7020 which actually came out before the 7520.  There were a few 7020s around and I even have one but they weren't near as popular the 7520 since they were a little on the small side. 

 

Great ad. I think I have that same brochure. I actually looked at a 7020 at an auction before deciding on a 2390 Case. Better cab for one thing. 

Lightningboy,, I don't seem to have any ads of tractors as small as a C with the Farmhand loader but did have this one of what I think might be an M Farmall with the Farmhand loader on it. 

[Big Bud guy]

1 hour ago, Loadstar said:

Great ad. I think I have that same brochure. I actually looked at a 7020 at an auction before deciding on a 2390 Case. Better cab for one thing. 

Lightningboy,, I don't seem to have any ads of tractors as small as a C with the Farmhand loader but did have this one of what I think might be an M Farmall with the Farmhand loader on it. 

This brochure is probably is not like yours because it shows only the 7020.  Its from 1971.  I would like to have one that shows both tractors but they cost an arm and leg whenever they show up on ebay.  This one we picked up back in the day when we were shopping around.  Its probably a good thing you didn't get the 7020 because one other thing they didn't have that some people don't know about is a live pto.  Maybe it wouldn't have mattered in your situation but over the years I've known a few guys looking at 7020/7520s for PTO work and I've had to inform them they were not "live."

[Big Bud guy]

On ‎12‎/‎14‎/‎2016 at 6:03 PM, Steve C. said:

Got to run a 7520 pulling a Glencoe Soil Saver back in the late '80s. Wouldn't start a load, but pulled hard once you had it wound out. Could lug it down to 16 - 1800 rpms and it kept going. Huge black cloud when you throttled it up.

It was crude, but I had a ball running it.

The 7020 must have been pretty doggy with the 404 in it, even if it was cranked.

The problem in my part of the world was a well tuned 5020 could almost keep up with a 7020.  When you consider how much more expensive the 7020 was guys weren't so keen to trade up to a 7020. 

[bitty]

Our neighbors had a 7020. They pulled a 6 bottom variable width junk deer plow with it. They had the tail twisted very hard and it seemed to do ok for what it was. Now the plow on the other hand was the biggest piece of junk ever made. It plowed so rough, then the neighbor complained that his 17' 470 disk was too light to leave it level. 

[dale560]

Dad pulled an 8/18 melroe with his 7020 it actually was a pretty good tractor for its time not overpowered. It would pull a 38 ft vibrashank to. He had the driveshaft break the oil pan on his 7020 and a clutch put in it but was pretty reliable. I think he traded a 1030 case for the 7020. If I remember right he had the 7020,  806 plus a 1206 he traded for a white cab 1466 ,then a 1586 he farmed with. Also had a 900 case in there but don't remember where that went. His 7020 did a lot of work for 5 or 6 years. Pretty sure there was weeks in the spring it wasn't shut off much. He was around 3000 acres tillable then.

[Loadstar]

3 hours ago, Big Bud guy said:

This brochure is probably is not like yours because it shows only the 7020.  Its from 1971.  I would like to have one that shows both tractors but they cost an arm and leg whenever they show up on ebay.  This one we picked up back in the day when we were shopping around.  Its probably a good thing you didn't get the 7020 because one other thing they didn't have that some people don't know about is a live pto.  Maybe it wouldn't have mattered in your situation but over the years I've known a few guys looking at 7020/7520s for PTO work and I've had to inform them they were not "live."

I'll have to check but I think my brochure has both 70 and 7520 in it. I didn't know about the lack of live pto on those models. Probably why I don't ever recall seeing one hitched to a pull type combine. 

This is the top of the line for horsepower in 1953. The diesel model R. 

[Loadstar]

On 12/15/2016 at 7:42 PM, dale560 said:

Dad pulled an 8/18 melroe with his 7020 it actually was a pretty good tractor for its time not overpowered. It would pull a 38 ft vibrashank to. He had the driveshaft break the oil pan on his 7020 and a clutch put in it but was pretty reliable. I think he traded a 1030 case for the 7020. If I remember right he had the 7020,  806 plus a 1206 he traded for a white cab 1466 ,then a 1586 he farmed with. Also had a 900 case in there but don't remember where that went. His 7020 did a lot of work for 5 or 6 years. Pretty sure there was weeks in the spring it wasn't shut off much. He was around 3000 acres tillable then.

Here  is a page from the 70/7520 brochure showing a 7520 pulling an 8 furrow plow. 

[dale560]

I know dad had the plow before he traded to 8630s. He had 3 7ft 100 drills then the last year pulled 2 14ft 620s and a cultivator in front seeding. Before he got the 7020 he ran the 1206 with 2 6 ft drills and cultivator in front. I was only 10 years old when he got rid of the 7020 but used to ride a lot in it.

[George 2]

On ‎15‎/‎12‎/‎2016 at 8:14 PM, Big Bud guy said:

The problem in my part of the world was a well tuned 5020 could almost keep up with a 7020.  When you consider how much more expensive the 7020 was guys weren't so keen to trade up to a 7020. 

When I worked at Deere in 1970, we made a field trip to the Williston, ND and Wolf Point, MT areas to settle some lawsuits. When I was at Williston the dealer sold two model 5020's. They were in stock. He also had a 7020 in stock but remarked there was little interest in it by his customers and he was thinking of transferring it out. And the lawsuits got settled but it was an inefficient way to sort out what was just a shipping error. . 

[Loadstar]

7 hours ago, George 2 said:

When I worked at Deere in 1970, we made a field trip to the Williston, ND and Wolf Point, MT areas to settle some lawsuits. When I was at Williston the dealer sold two model 5020's. They were in stock. He also had a 7020 in stock but remarked there was little interest in it by his customers and he was thinking of transferring it out. And the lawsuits got settled but it was an inefficient way to sort out what was just a shipping error. . 

You have some interesting info there George2

Turns out I have this brochure for the 70/7520. 

I better start posting some red stuff pretty soon or I'll be in trouble. 

 

[IKS]

7 hours ago, George 2 said:

When I worked at Deere in 1970, we made a field trip to the Williston, ND and Wolf Point, MT areas to settle some lawsuits. When I was at Williston the dealer sold two model 5020's. They were in stock. He also had a 7020 in stock but remarked there was little interest in it by his customers and he was thinking of transferring it out. And the lawsuits got settled but it was an inefficient way to sort out what was just a shipping error. . 

Shipping errors get very costly , I was hired to load whole goods after the shipper ,trucker ,Customs officers and receiver all failed to check the serial # so a Header for Idaho ended up at the NH facility in Pa. It was determined this happened when it was no where to be found when it was to be loaded for shipment to Idaho .

[George 2]

12 hours ago, Loadstar said:

You have some interesting info there George2

Turns out I have this brochure for the 70/7520. 

I better start posting some red stuff pretty soon or I'll be in trouble. 

 

That is the 1971 version of the brochure with both tractors. The one I have is the 1970 version with just the 7020 in it. The 7520 wasn't released until 1971.

[Loadstar]

A good old Farmall ad for a change. From 1949, a Farmall H cultivating corn. 

[Brady Boy]

More cultivators, from 1946.  BK

[Brady Boy]

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[KeithFink]

2 minutes ago, Brady Boy said:

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Removing a rear wheel to eliminate crop damage would seem to have the opposite effect. Oh well,I'm sure they knew what they were doing.

 

Keith-

[Brady Boy]

On 12/20/2016 at 7:17 AM, KeithFink said:

Removing a rear wheel to eliminate crop damage would seem to have the opposite effect. Oh well,I'm sure they knew what they were doing.

 

Keith-

LOL Keith, and ya probably get get better fuel mileage too.  BK

[Loadstar]

Super WD9 for 1953. This big tractor put out 58 drawbar horsepower and 64 on the belt. 

[Delta Dirt]

Re: M-448 cultivator

I've still got several disk hillers and the flat steel gauge wheels for the old front mount cultivators------along with a few feet.  But have hauled the old cultivator frames off----just take up too much room.

That was a popular item here in the Delta-------cotton farmers plowed with the row and then cross-plowed.  Seems like every M or Super M had a front mount cultivator and an umbrella hanging on them.  

When fall came-----that same M was switched to cotton picker status.

 

DD

[redneckchevy9]

Little bit older than the letter series, but still a nice F Series ad.  Notice how the rear wheels in the "action shots" don't match the stationary pictures.