Vintage Ads

[Big Bud guy]

5 minutes ago, Loadstar said:

I am really slipping. Nearly a week since posting any vintage ads. Time just flies this time of year as harvest starts. Here is a Minneapolis Moline Harvestor SP 168 combine . 1955.

I have a brochure for one of those.  It was MM combine similar to this one that turned my land lord green.  They were running a pull type MM then went to a MM SP.  Had it only one year before they traded it for a JD 55. 

[Loadstar]

41 minutes ago, Big Bud guy said:

I have a brochure for one of those.  It was MM combine similar to this one that turned my land lord green.  They were running a pull type MM then went to a MM SP.  Had it only one year before they traded it for a JD 55. 

I don't think there were a lot of these MM combines sold around here. Now JD 55 is a different story. They were everywhere. Lot of  pull type 65 machines as well. They must have been ok. 

[TroyDairy]

I always find it interesting that 30s-60s ads seem to all claim they Make you money.  Not sure how that worked!?

But today they all seem to push You Can do more/faster.  

[dale560]

Lots of mm pull type combines got sold for scrap when it was high down here. Even seen one that was stored inside pulled out and scrapped. Those JD combines are around here to dads buddy has 2 45s one older and a newer style. A lot of 95 ,96 and a few 105 used down here. The 105 must have been a decent combine guys still ran them until they bought 9600 jds to replace them.

[Loadstar]

2 hours ago, TroyDairy said:

I always find it interesting that 30s-60s ads seem to all claim they Make you money.  Not sure how that worked!?

But today they all seem to push You Can do more/faster.  

I guess we farmers finally saw through that line about making more money. Every time we make more money, they find ways to raise the price of our inputs and machinery. 

John Deere was pushing more capacity and reduced grain loss when they introduced this new 7721 pull type combine in 1980. (Or maybe late 70s)

[U-C]

Here is another Grunder Motor Mower ad (I think the ads are from the 30s):

[Loadstar]

On 8/24/2017 at 3:13 PM, U-C said:

Here is another Grunder Motor Mower ad (I think the ads are from the 30s):

 

Interesting art work on that ad. You would think they might put a seat on it for the operator. 

Here is a combine that is familiar to me. The 1967 Cockshutt 542. A neighbour bought one in 1969 and came to help my dad finish harvest in the late, cold and damp harvest of 69. Dad drove that machine til the early morning hours of November 11. I guess the old Chrysler flathead six put a bit of heat behind the seat but he said he nearly froze sitting up in the open and cold wind. Ground was freezing already. 

 

[U-C]

34 minutes ago, Loadstar said:

Interesting art work on that ad. You would think they might put a seat on it for the operator. 

Here is a combine that is familiar to me. The 1967 Cockshutt 542. A neighbour bought one in 1969 and came to help my dad finish harvest in the late, cold and damp harvest of 69. Dad drove that machine til the early morning hours of November 11. I guess the old Chrysler flathead six put a bit of heat behind the seat but he said he nearly froze sitting up in the open and cold wind. Ground was freezing already. 

 

Oh yes you could order a seat for that motor mower just look at the ad that I posted on August 16! Nice Combine by the way, a cab sure was a big difference when they came out with AC and a heater. When did they start to put a diesel engine in Combines? My Grandfather bought a used combine in 1977 but that thing was already an ancient machine (one of the first combines imported into Switzerland) it was a Koedel & Boehm (or Koela for short). The combine looked similar to the one at the bottom but with the cutter bar of the top one. His had no corn head though.

-Urs

 

[lightninboy]

I found this picture on the KXRB radio website. Obviously the rear wheels are converted from steel, but I wonder what the front wheels are. Like did Firestone make front wheel rims for converting steel?

[Steve C.]

On 8/26/2017 at 11:39 PM, U-C said:

 

So, looks like that machine threshed and baled at the same time.

[Owen Aaland]

12 hours ago, lightninboy said:

I found this picture on the KXRB radio website. Obviously the rear wheels are converted from steel, but I wonder what the front wheels are. Like did Firestone make front wheel rims for converting steel?

I believe those front wheels are also steel cut offs.

[Fred B]

it also looks like they just sat the girl on the M, i can't see anything she's towing, not dressed properly for real work, hat not gonna stay on, feet resting on pedals, looking straight ahead with hands correct, but turning into the fence, other than that all looks nice.      i agree on the front wheels.

[Fred B]

2 hours ago, Owen Aaland said:

 

[George 2]

7 hours ago, Owen Aaland said:

I believe those front wheels are also steel cut offs.

Look at that grille on the M The grille part extends at least 3 inches higher than the regular production models. It puzzles me.

[Loadstar]

On 8/30/2017 at 4:26 PM, Art From DeLeon said:

I don't know about the grille, but the missing decals tell me that maybe the ad was for a totally different product, and the tractor was airbrushed into a 'generic' tractor, to avoid anyone thinking that the product that could not be used in ALL makes.

Kind of like the Hubley toy, that looks like an "M", but has NO other link to IH.

Yes,  looks like some kind of a set up for a calendar photo or something like that. 

Since its harvest time I'll post an IH McCormick swather (windrower). Those old pull types all looked kind of crude and weak to me but I guess they were as good as it got in 1955. You could get one as wide as 15 feet for the big farmers. My dad had a 12 foot Massey Harris. Uncle had a 12 foot Cockshutt. Wooden pitman arms had a tendency to break when the going got tough and the bearings developed a little slack. Dad sometimes fabricated up a new one out of a piece of hard wood to save a few dollars. 

After a few days in the swath my uncle would fire up his Cockshutt 132 combine and pick up the swaths. Or sometimes it was a few weeks depending on the weather. 

[U-C]

AEBI Transporter TP 25 Broshure cover: in rhe back ground you can see a Bernese Farmhouse in the Emmental Valley (which houses house and barn under the same roof).

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[redturbo]

[U-C]

another broshure cover pic of the AEBI TP 25

[Steve C.]

2 hours ago, U-C said:

another broshure cover pic of the AEBI TP 25

I really like your posts - they definitely give us a look at equipment that many of us wouldn't even know exists.

[U-C]

On 9/12/2017 at 7:08 PM, Steve C. said:

I really like your posts - they definitely give us a look at equipment that many of us wouldn't even know exists.

Thanks man, here is another thing you might like it is a slope tractor Manufactured by the AEBI Company called a Terratrac they also sell the new models here in Canada and USA but this is a archiv film of there first Terratrac Model the TT 77 which had about 43 or 45 engine HP the company started serial production in 1976: 

-Urs

[Old Binder Guy]

On 8/30/2017 at 3:49 PM, George 2 said:

Look at that grille on the M The grille part extends at least 3 inches higher than the regular production models. It puzzles me.

I was just going to say the same thing. It doesn't have the Farmall Badge above the slots, and the slots go higher than a standard M. This isn't a real early one either. It has the later seat support and steering wheel, from the first Farmall M's. Gary

[Loadstar]

Thanks for keeping this vintage ads thread from fading into obscurity Urs and Redturbo. I've been busy with harvest the past 2 weeks or more. Finished up last night near midnight. I was thinking as I turned up the heater in the CIH 1660 just a bit against the cool night air, would I still be out here working near midnight if I was on the open Massey Harris 60 my dad used to run when I was a kid? I used to ride along on the ladder, or in the grain tank sometimes but only recall steering the combine once. 

I don't have an ad for a model 60 handy but here is the big model 90 Massey from 1952. 

 

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[George 2]

3 hours ago, Loadstar said:

Thanks for keeping this vintage ads thread from fading into obscurity Urs and Redturbo. I've been busy with harvest the past 2 weeks or more. Finished up last night near midnight. I was thinking as I turned up the heater in the CIH 1660 just a bit against the cool night air, would I still be out here working near midnight if I was on the open Massey Harris 60 my dad used to run when I was a kid? I used to ride along on the ladder, or in the grain tank sometimes but only recall steering the combine once. 

I don't have an ad for a model 60 handy but here is the big model 90 Massey from 1952. 

 

Yes, that test track was at Milliken (now a suburb of Toronto). Back in 1969 I toured the test track with a friend of mine who worked there. They also had a section of road with a surface they called "Belgian pavay". It was pavement full of potholes and small raised lumps. It was like going down a washboard gravel road and shook the guts out of you and the machine you were driving in.