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On 5/7/2017 at 11:30 PM, U-C said:

That is a cool ad, Gary

Have you seen this video on youtube:

-Urs

-Urs, (like Ursern?) I had NOT seen this video. Thanks for posting it. I was especially taken by seeing Case steam engine incline icon, E.C. "Big Mac" McMillan on the incline. I put a couple of photos of him on the incline; years, and years ago. Gary;)

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  Announcement of my dealer CASE IH or IH French of the time for a tractor IH in October 1983 .

Tractors manufactured in Saint Dizier in France

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5 hours ago, Old Binder Guy said:

-Urs, (like Ursern?) I had NOT seen this video. Thanks for posting it. I was especially taken by seeing Case steam engine incline icon, E.C. "Big Mac" McMillan on the incline. I put a couple of photos of him on the incline; years, and years ago. Gary;)

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I have seen on youtube a video of a Case Steamer doing that, and I think it is also cool seeing old pics of steam tractors doing that climb. (here is the like to the video:

Urs is originally from Ursus which is latin for Bear. Ursern is the Valley Andermatt is in. Here is an ad of a hand powered threshing machine (which could also be powered by a horse sweep) build by the Albert Stalder Maschinenfabrik in Oberburg (this company was bought by AEBI in the 40's). My Great Grandfather had a threshing machine powered by a horse sweep and it was my grandfathers job to walk with the horse around to power the machine during the winter months.

-Urs

 

 

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U-C, Thanks for that video of the 40 hp Case. The man in the hat running that engine up the incline is my friend Carl Tuttle of Howell, Michigan. He performs that incline climbing at Pawnee, Oklahoma. Pawnee just had their steam show this past weekend. Carl used to come to our show every year when his and my friend Austin Monk was still living. He's the man in the light colored hat in this photo. Our late friend Austin Monk is in the Middle.  

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He's been to our place and helped me set the valves on our Case, after we built a new pushrod and piston rod.

The third gentleman above is Kenneth Kelley and he had a huge collection of Case steam engines at Pawnee.

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Ralph, I apologize for getting your thread so far off of "Ads." Gary;)

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4 hours ago, Old Binder Guy said:

 

He's been to our place and helped me set the valves on our Case, after we built a new pushrod and piston rod.

The third gentleman above is Kenneth Kelley and he had a huge collection of Case steam engines at Pawnee.

 

Ralph, I apologize for getting your thread so far off of "Ads." Gary;)

No worries Gary. I've been "AWOL" quite a bit lately. Burning the candle both ends trying to catch  up with spring planting etc. Good to see the thread   is still active. I have nothing on topic tonight but here is a 1952 ad for our good  old Mercury trucks. 

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this old Merc ad combines farm & truck.  Must be from the same campaign as it keeps with the "Move it with Mercury for less" slogan

 

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On 5/16/2017 at 4:28 PM, U-C said:

Here is an ad from 1946

 

 

About time I contributed something to this thread. 100 horsepower was a big tractor back in 1963. Just look at these big Minneapolis machines. 

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On 5/10/2017 at 9:44 AM, redneckchevy9 said:

this old Merc ad combines farm & truck.  Must be from the same campaign as it keeps with the "Move it with Mercury for less" slogan

 

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Would it be correct to say Mer trucks were mainly Canadian vs ford for US?

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13 hours ago, TroyDairy said:

Would it be correct to say Mer trucks were mainly Canadian vs ford for US?

Troy,  There was some regulations around WW2 time.

Ford of Canada as well as the other auto Makers were limited by Government laws as to how many copies of each model they could make.

They got around the rules by making  more model lines,aka Mecury Trucks , Monarch & Meteor cars   Only in Canada Eh.

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15 hours ago, Delta Dirt said:

I figured it might be getting to be about planting time up in Saskatchewan.

Loadstar will make up valuable time though with his crop spraying via his drone.  Be sure and send videos Ralph!!

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You are right Anson and planters are running long days here this past week. Of course my little old 28 foot Bourgault is pretty insignificant working next to the 70 footers all around me. I have not even had time to fly the drone for business or pleasure. (The Merc either!) . Although my nephew did get some video of me at work with the air seeder today. I've got video to edit and upload when time permits but right now I need to get some sleep to be ready for another day in the Magnum. 

I'll just throw in a 1956 ad for one of our uniquely Canadian cars, the Meteor. No, its not a Mercury although many people confuse the names. The Meteor was just a Ford with grille and chrome changes to make it look a little different. The Mercury was more a "mini Lincoln"  I think. 

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Good to hear you're hard at work Ralph. Very little going on around here yet. Maybe 1% now in our area. I'm hoping to get going tomorrow. Been out harrowing trying to dry things up a bit. Find a few of the soft spots that way too.  Neighbors have been out combining and getting stuck doing that too.  Last year we were kicking our feet back enjoying being all done. This year we don't have a kernel of seed in the ground yet. Just goes to show no two years area alike. (Except for the being wet part it seems)

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10 hours ago, poor farmer/logger said:

Good to hear you're hard at work Ralph. Very little going on around here yet. Maybe 1% now in our area. I'm hoping to get going tomorrow. Been out harrowing trying to dry things up a bit. Find a few of the soft spots that way too.  Neighbors have been out combining and getting stuck doing that too.  Last year we were kicking our feet back enjoying being all done. This year we don't have a kernel of seed in the ground yet. Just goes to show no two years area alike. (Except for the being wet part it seems)

I actually only started seeding a week ago. Had to waste a week or so on last year's flax field. Less said about that, the better. Most guys have been going a couple of weeks and I guess are getting close to done. Only about 120 acres or so to go but it will take a while at my slow speeds. Got some good drone video of seeding and harrowing to post when I get around to it. 

We have come a ways from the days of seeding with Co-op (Cockshutt) 33 tillers  like the one in this Co-op ad from 1948. 

 

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4 hours ago, Loadstar said:

I actually only started seeding a week ago. Had to waste a week or so on last year's flax field. Less said about that, the better. Most guys have been going a couple of weeks and I guess are getting close to done. Only about 120 acres or so to go but it will take a while at my slow speeds. Got some good drone video of seeding and harrowing to post when I get around to it. 

We have come a ways from the days of seeding with Co-op (Cockshutt) 33 tillers  like the one in this Co-op ad from 1948. 

 

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Good to hear that your almost finished with Seeding Ralph, we still have to finish seeding corn in one field but it rained over the weekend. I hope that your fields aren't as wet as last year.

I got a question where the Discers (oneway) any good? A neighbor is still using his but have no idea what brand it is.

Here is an ad of a JF binder with a single canvas, my grandfather had one which he bought used in 1958 (he also bought his first tractor from the same guy who owned that binder) and used it until the late 60's. My father says this single canvas binders were on of the best. 

-Urs

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On 5/22/2017 at 0:01 PM, U-C said:

Good to hear that your almost finished with Seeding Ralph, we still have to finish seeding corn in one field but it rained over the weekend. I hope that your fields aren't as wet as last year.

I got a question where the Discers (oneway) any good? A neighbor is still using his but have no idea what brand it is.

Here is an ad of a JF binder with a single canvas, my grandfather had one which he bought used in 1958 (he also bought his first tractor from the same guy who owned that binder) and used it until the late 60's. My father says this single canvas binders were on of the best. 

-Urs

 

Actually I am almost finished seeding as of today (99%) when I ran out of seed. Raining today so we needed a little shower to germinate the seeds in the dry spots. 

Re: one way diskers, I'll still say that the highest yielding crop of wheat I ever grew was planted with a Massey Ferguson 360 disker back in the 1980s. Maybe it was just a good year but that little field hit near 50 bushels per acre as I recall. Of course we did not have wheat midge, fusarium, assorted blights etc. to deal with back then. Now I consider 40 a good crop with the air seeder. 

Just for something completely different, here is an ad from 1948 for the famous "Radio Flyer" wagon. I don't recall what brand wagon I had as a kid and I literally wore it out to the point it was unrecognizable. 

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  That previous ad for the Radio Flyer wagon for $12.75 in '48 got me to wondering what a new one would cost. Well.....I found out. Probably ain't going to be any new wagons in my future.

 

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But in '48 that $12 was probably considered the same as the $109 today. 

My wife has a receipt (somewhere) from her grandfather for a fuel fill on the farm. If I remember, the date was '50 or '51 and the price was 9 cents a gallon. Total to fill the barrel was $20 or something like that.

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35 minutes ago, dads706 said:

But in '48 that $12 was probably considered the same as the $109 today. 

My wife has a receipt (somewhere) from her grandfather for a fuel fill on the farm. If I remember, the date was '50 or '51 and the price was 9 cents a gallon. Total to fill the barrel was $20 or something like that.

Using my handy Canadian Inflation calculator I came up with a price of $144.57 Canadian dollars in today/'s money to equal $12.75 1948 dollars. I'd guess a common labourer would be lucky to make $12 in a day back then as well. 

Here is something else that is a lot more expensive today than it was at the time of this ad. (1940)

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Weren't the Co-op combine the same as the Cockshutt 429? 

Looks to me like it.  Dad bought a new Cockshutt 429 in 1956, and was used until 1981, when it was honourably retired...

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2 hours ago, dewets said:

Weren't the Co-op combine the same as the Cockshutt 429? 

Looks to me like it.  Dad bought a new Cockshutt 429 in 1956, and was used until 1981, when it was honourably retired...

You are right. At that time all the Co-op machinery line was Cockshutt built. Not sure on  the model but I think the combine in the ad I posted might have been a model 112. 

This E-15A Co-op mower was actually the Cockshutt 15AS mower. My dad bought one new in the late 1950s. 

 

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