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11 hours ago, Loadstar said:

Yes, I remember helping my dad pull the engine out of the Massey Harris 60 after removing the right side tire. I don't recall the 510 V8 being noisy, probably got  little heat through the firewall. I could have opened the window and put my hand on the carburetor it was so close. Luckily it had a very good and trouble free air conditioning system on it. I did have the Perkins 354 in the 550 which was really just a 510 with some different sheet metal. That engine was a tight fit. I know I wanted to replace a leaking valve cover gasket one time and found I could not remove the cover without lifting the cab. I gave up on the idea. The 550 is long gone but I've still got the new gasket if anybody needs one :-)

Back in 1975 I would say that these 7 series Masseys were the most popular combine in the area. 

 

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Initially there were a lot of 750/760 combines sold in my area. But as time wore on that changed. After 1978 when the 1480 was introduced several were traded in on 1480 combines. Some 750's also traded in on 1460's. Once the 1600 series came out the Masseys pretty well disappeared from this area and their market was split between CIH and JD. There is only one relatively new Massey now in our area. I know of at least of 5 newer CIH and 5 newer JDs in my local area (5 miles radius).   

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Massey sold a lot of the model 26 and 21 combines. Interesting that the model 21 was actually a bigger capacity machine than the 26. This ad from about 1949 Canadian Farm Implement magazine. 

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Get a two year subscription to the Country Guide and Norwest Farmer plus this quality stock knife. All for just a dollar. Seems like a dollar bought a lot back in 1937. The sad part was that there were not many dollars around. 37 was one of the driest and poorest crop years in this area. 

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This Case model A pull type combine (or one just like it) was my dad's first combine. He bought it new about 1950. Not sure but I think the price was about $1800 which was a lot of money for a small farmer in those days. This one in the ad appears to have hydraulic table lift. Dad's only had lever lift and I'd guess it was a pretty heavy lift when he had the drum type pickup attachment hanging on the front of that header. Even though it was only six feet wide. 

 

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1 hour ago, Loadstar said:

This Case model A pull type combine (or one just like it) was my dad's first combine. He bought it new about 1950. Not sure but I think the price was about $1800 which was a lot of money for a small farmer in those days. This one in the ad appears to have hydraulic table lift. Dad's only had lever lift and I'd guess it was a pretty heavy lift when he had the drum type pickup attachment hanging on the front of that header. Even though it was only six feet wide. 

 

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cool combine do you still remember him using it? 

-Urs

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13 hours ago, U-C said:

cool combine do you still remember him using it? 

-Urs

I sure do remember the Case A6. I think it's last year was either 1966 or 67 when we had a September snowfall that laid the wheat crop down bad. My uncle had come to help out and he was driving the "new" Massey Harris 60 while dad was on the old Case A6. Having to cut low to get the down wheat was it's downfall. Working at night with the meagre lighting systems of the old tractors it was hard to see what was going in the header. A big rock went through and broke the spike tooth concaves on the little Case and I think that was the end of it's combining days. 

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Hey George,  found this IH 600 ad today.  Just about brought it,  but once I flipped it over & saw the price.  $325 in US dollars!!!.  So I took a picture instead.  Guess seller I was going to pay for hotel bill in dyersville ia,  haha.  

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That is the same as the 650 catalog. I wonder if they airbrushed the 600 catalog to get the 650 catalog. And yes the price of some of these brochures is getting expensive today. I wonder what my 4300 brochure would be worth today. I haven't seen one advertised on ebay so I don't know. Anyway I do not intend on selling any of them. That will be a job for my son when I pass on. I am still looking for a Super W-4 catalog. I had one when I was 7 years old but my sister got hold of it one time and she ripped it up on me because I wouldn't play with her. Such is life.   

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1 hour ago, redturbo said:

Hey George,  found this IH 600 ad today.  Just about brought it,  but once I flipped it over & saw the price.  $325 in US dollars!!!.  So I took a picture instead.  Guess seller I was going to pay for hotel bill in dyersville ia,  haha.  

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My great grandpa bought one of those 1957.  Cost was $6,600 and they gave him $3,600 for the WD-9 he traded in.  Two years later that 600 turned into a JD 830. 

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On 11/5/2017 at 6:55 PM, redturbo said:

Seller wanted $110,  corner was ripped.  So just took picture,  he would come down 10 bucks.  I put it back into the pile.

 

Really nice but I can't see myself ever paying that much for a brochure. Wish I'd known years ago how much they would be worth eventually. I'd have picked up all the free stuff I could. 

Here is something I do have. Likely not worth much but still interesting. Remember the Ford "unibody" pickup trucks? This one from  1961. 

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This Bolens-Huski reminds me a bit of the Gardenaid ad that U.C. posted above. This one is from 1948. Quite the little two wheeled tractor but, judging by the size of that engine I'd bet less than ten horsepower. 

 

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From  1951, an advertising magazine I have. Its all Allis Chalmers obviously. Interesting to see a bit of history in the background as they work on building a dike to hold back the flood waters of the  Missouri near Omaha , Nebraska. 

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-5F here this morning. Hopefully everybody has their Marvelube 5W oil in their engines ready for this cold. I don't recall my dad ever using anything lighter than a #10 in the tractor and car. But I do remember sometimes they would not start either. It got a lot lower than -5F as well.  This ad from 1953. 

 

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On 11/4/2017 at 8:03 PM, George 2 said:

That is the same as the 650 catalog. I wonder if they airbrushed the 600 catalog to get the 650 catalog. And yes the price of some of these brochures is getting expensive today. I wonder what my 4300 brochure would be worth today. I haven't seen one advertised on ebay so I don't know. Anyway I do not intend on selling any of them. That will be a job for my son when I pass on. I am still looking for a Super W-4 catalog. I had one when I was 7 years old but my sister got hold of it one time and she ripped it up on me because I wouldn't play with her. Such is life.   

A 4300 brochure has been on ebay for some time now, at $150, no takers.  BK

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