Vintage Ads

[Loadstar]

On 4/11/2018 at 11:07 PM, U-C said:

That's one nice looking swather, I know that you were able to choose between a cab version and one without but I was wondering if there was an aftermarket cab avaible?

Here is also something cool a Walter Wood's Self Raking Reaper

 

Yes, there were after market cabs available for most swathers. Prairie cab was one. My 4000 did not have a cab. I was at the mercy of all the extremes of the weather.

Well the question is finally settled. Who introduced the windrower? According to this 1965 ad it was Owatonna.  In 1949. 

 

[hillman]

 McCormick Deeering Orchard tractors- 04 and 06

 

[Loadstar]

3 hours ago, hillman said:

 McCormick Deeering Orchard tractors- 04 and 06

 

 

The orchard tractors are so different looking than anything we had here. Of  course , no orchards here either. 

I was checking  to  see if I had an ad for them but happened across this swather (windrower) ad. I forgot to record the date on this Country Guide ad but I'm going to ball park it at late 1960s. You could get a 16 foot for $2995 list price. They were a little ahead of some of the competition with that liquid cooled engine. 

 

[Ron Cook]

We always swathed with a No.5 John Deere sickle mower with the swathing attachment until my Granddad and an uncle made a McCormick Deering binder into a swather.  It worked for them, but we went back to the mower and attachment.

Ron

[ray54]

U-C I could fix you right up with a lever steer New Holland 907 with a fuel sipping Ford diesel. 

 

Loadstar I had been thinking Owatonna was to have been the first but had know idea  where to find that information.So thank you for finding the answer. 

[utility 64]

Photo of the international exhibition of the agricultural machine in Paris in 1979.
The Axial Flow combine harvester is presented to the French public and won the gold medal.

[IHhogfarmer]

Here’s a brochure from our old  local IH dealer from 1979. 

 

[U-C]

Eicher Vineyard tractor

[U-C]

FAHR Low pressure baler

 

[Loadstar]

1 hour ago, IHhogfarmer said:

Here’s a brochure from our old  local IH dealer from 1979. 

 

 

 

I always did like the looks of those 2+2 tractors but never owned one. 

I just posted this ad over in the pull type combines section of facebook and thought it might be of interest here too. I don't know if Massey sold many of the 405 pull type combines but I don't recall seeing many. The later 751 and 851 models were more popular here. 

 

[U-C]

CLAAS Super pull type combine Brochure

 

[U-C]

 

[U-C]

 

[dale560]

7 hours ago, U-C said:

 

I guess claas would have had one of the first rotary combines the way it appears. The wagon behind must have been for chaff collection we used to run square self tipping wagons for chaff.

[IHhogfarmer]

9 hours ago, Loadstar said:

I always did like the looks of those 2+2 tractors but never owned one.

I had the chance to drive a 2+2 a few years ago at the local CaseIH dealership but I never got to drive it because it was about this time of year and got too busy to go out and try it, they do have a cool and unique look

9 hours ago, U-C said:

 

That is a nice video of the Claas pull type combine thanks for posting it 

[Loadstar]

Interesting to see how the baler worked on the Claas combines. The bales look pretty loose and more like sheaves than bales. Maybe a little bit like this Welger baler.  From 1960. 

 

[Old Binder Guy]

Ralph, I can't imagine trying to combine and get acreage done, with a baler that stopped tying for some reason? Probably, I'm remembering a hay baler I had tying problems with and combining, not wanting to stop and go get covered with chaff, working on something on the back end of the combine?

I've ran a binder quite a few hours. They cut grain and tie it into bundles that you drop in piles. But I've also been on a binder that stopped tying and had to get underneath the knotter platform and work on that. Maybe I'm just letting my "imaginer" work too hard today?

This all reminded me of the Campbell wheat farm at Hardin, Montana. Campbell was the world's largest farmer at the time. He had two "camps" in Montana and two in Texas. At Hardin, Aultman & Taylor Company came in and did some PR work there. Campbell owned a "herd" of A&T's 30-60 gas tractors. This photo shows 14 of them plowing a section of ground in "so many" hours (I don't remember).

This picture shows a bunch of tractors pulling a swarm of binders. The thing that sticks in my mind in the Aultman & Taylor literature published afterward: "There were no STOPPAGES due to the tractors." (to say nothing about what they were pulling behind the tractors.)  Gary

PS: Because this thread is about "vintage ads" here's an Aultman & Taylor gas tractor ad.

 

 

[lightninboy]

Interesting pull-type combine. And what is a low-pressure baler?

[Loadstar]

2 hours ago, Old Binder Guy said:

Ralph, I can't imagine trying to combine and get acreage done, with a baler that stopped tying for some reason? Probably, I'm remembering a hay baler I had tying problems with and combining, not wanting to stop and go get covered with chaff, working on something on the back end of the combine?Gary

 

PS: Because this thread is about "vintage ads" here's an Aultman & Taylor gas tractor ad.

 

 

 

I agree Gary. A combine or baler by itself can be frustrating enough when things go wrong. Putting two together is just complicating your life needlessly I'd say. Maybe the low pressure baler did not have the tying problems that we encountered when trying to make the old New Holland square baler compress square bales. 

I never saw any of these Case balers around. This was all New Holland baler country. Hot starting that Wisconsin V4 would be enough in itself to drive you right off your rocker. From a 1951 ad. 

 

[Ron Cook]

You did not shut off the Wisconsin until quitting time.  I have the baler engine to power a buzz saw.  It makes no difference there, either.  When warmed up, it is a bugger to get started.  I usually do not even try.

Ron

[lightninboy]

I've got a 2006 6.5-hp. Briggs & Stratton that won't start once it's warmed up, so engines haven't necessarily improved.

[iowaboy1965]

Coil or condenser

[Loadstar]

4 hours ago, lightninboy said:

I've got a 2006 6.5-hp. Briggs & Stratton that won't start once it's warmed up, so engines haven't necessarily improved.

Any of the small engines I have now start better than that old V4 Wisconsin did. I can recall my dad losing days of harvest cranking that engine. Changing points, magnetos, etc. It was the most frustrating engine on the farm. My brother worked on it in later years and has improved it to the point it is fairly reliable starting on his buzz saw. 

Here is another purpose those V4 Wisconsins could be found. Running a welder.  This is a Lincoln from 1950. 

[AKwelder]

2 hours ago, Loadstar said:

Any of the small engines I have now start better than that old V4 Wisconsin did. I can recall my dad losing days of harvest cranking that engine. Changing points, magnetos, etc. It was the most frustrating engine on the farm. My brother worked on it in later years and has improved it to the point it is fairly reliable starting on his buzz saw. 

Here is another purpose those V4 Wisconsins could be found. Running a welder.  This is a Lincoln from 1950. 

There are more than a few old welders (the guys, not the machine) that would love to have those 

 

the belt drive units can bring some big dollars, they like them for tack rigs on the front end

[U-C]

Those Wisconsin engines also made there way to Switzerland and build into Tractors. Like this Oekonom tractor: