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Vintage Farm Advertising Posters |
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I struggle to put to words the strong emotional pull barns have on my life. Restoring and repairing the very barn
that I learned to walk in as a toddler played in as a child and worked in and around as soon as I could contribute
brought many of these feelings to the surface.
Left
Me standing in front of the very barn I would tackle a huge
barn restoration project
some forty years later.
I found I am not alone in these feelings. Many people for many reasons have the same strong associations with barns.
For that, reason Antique Farming is putting out a call for YOUR barn stories and photos.
If your interested in contributing click here
The Barn Project
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Antique Farming looks at The Chase Stone
Barn click on image
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New Additions
: Allis Chalmers Model B |
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Allis Chalmers designed the B to be lightweight and simple. It only weighed a ton and had a minimum of parts. However,
the $495 price included such luxuries as rubber tires and a cushioned seat.
The combination of an excellent tractor and effective marketing help the B to become a smashing success.
Allis marketing department had experience with such challenges as convincing doubting farmer the benefits of
pneumatic tire. Early sales literature for the Allis Chalmers B was devoted to convincing the farmer That
the new B required less work to maintain then horses.
Visit our Allis Chalmers B page
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Antique Farming Featured LOADER TRACTORS |
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Loader Tractors
Most all the tractor manufacturers had been
building equipment for "non-agricultural" or for
construction purposes. Some, moved slowly in providing
construction equipment. Others released products that
became classics and the watermark for others to reach.
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top before the hydraulic loader
complex loader rigs used cables and a
large mast.
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1940's saw an
explosion in 3rd party loader sales
taking advantage of
hydraulic lift
first used on cultivators. Early loaders used hydraulics to lift
the bucket the load was dumped or tripped by a long rope routed back to
the operator as shown on this 620
John Deere Tractor
equipped with a John Deere 45 loader.
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new era was entered with the release of the Case Construction King
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Case Construction King
Case stockholders approved the merger with
construction equipment builder ATC in December
1956,and immediately started retooling to
make the new loader backhoe. Only a few
months later the first Loader
Backhoe
was shipped. Some initial
design problems notwithstanding, completion of
this machine marked the dawn of a new era for
Case. This machine was the first of its
kind, giving Case an immediate edge on the competition.
click here to
read more on
Case's
Construction
Equipment
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John Deere Loader Tractors
Case wasn't the only company in 1956 with news in the
construction equipment department John Deere's industrial
division gained its identity separate from the farm machinery
business in 1956 when separate records of construction equipment
sales were kept for the first time. The first dealer to
exclusively sell construction equipment was appointed in Ft.
Dodge, Iowa.
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Antique Farming Windows Tractor Wallpaper |
The below tractor images were created from antique tractor literature.
I've taken and converted them to use as Windows wallpaper (or you can print them) .
You are welcome to download these antique tractor pictures for personal use.
See all our FREE Antique Farming Wallpapers
FREE Windows
backgrounds
1)
Chose an image
and click on the
link of the
desired
resolution.
2) Wait for
the image to
finish loading
and right click
on the image.
3) On the
popup menu,
chose [Set as
Wallpaper].
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Antique Farming Top Visited Pages |
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Massey Harris Tractors
Take a look at the roots of the Massey Ferguson Tractor
Company visit our Massey Harris Tractor page
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John Deere Tractor Model M
John Deere's Utility Tractor designed to replace the John Deere Model H,
John Deere Model L and Model LA
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Dairy Barn
The history of the dairy Barn and the work saving barn tools
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Farm Show and Tractor Picture Collections |
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Antique Farming looks at farming’s number one icon, the
Barn
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We will begin with a look at the
Dairy Barn
The rate, at which barns are disappearing, is nothing short of alarming. Visit part one of
the two part story documenting the process that rescued a Wisconsin barn from the
fate that has removed so many barns from our rural landscape.
Barn Restoration Part 1
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Antique Farming Visits the Keller Tractor Collection |
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There's little doubt the
Keller family tractor
collection has no equal.
Check out our antique
tractor photo archive, we
think you will agree. Also
we are confident you will not
find a rival to our
collection of easy to view
high resolution antique
tractor pictures on all the
internet.
Keller
Tractor Collection click
here.
Antique Tractor Picture
Archive
from Various Farm Shows
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JOHN DEERE 720 |
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The
John Deere 720achieved many records in the Deere line: It was the largest row-crop two-cylinder model built by
John Deere
the largest row-crop tractor tested at Nebraska; it provided more work per gallon of diesel fuel of any wheeled or crawler tractor
tested up to that time; and the gas and LP-gas models were also the most powerful row-crops of their fuel type.
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FORD NAA |
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The 3PT War
a $9.25 million dollar settlement agreement against Ford. Ford agreed to discontinue production of the
hydraulic system using Ferguson's reservoir-side
hydraulic pump
by the end of the 1952 model year. 1953 saw the release of the Ford NAA Ferguson,
who had begun producing Ford 9N look-alikes that he marketed as Ferguson TE-20 and TO- 20 ,
suffered in the final settlement for his success. He had manufactured nearly 140,000 of the 9N clones without Ford's permissio
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JOHN DEERE
INDUSTRIAL Tractors |
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John Deeres of a different color
To satisfy both customers and safety demands the John Deere BI was offered in various colors. The above Red John Deere BI was specially
ordered to be painted red at the factory by the Waterloo Iowa Fire Department.
The industrial version of the John Deere "BR". Features include individual rear wheel brakes machined into the large cast iron rear wheels. The front axle was also
set back and had provisions for a
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International Harvester Farmall H |
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International Harvester
Farmall H was the redesigned sequel to the Farmall F-20. The Farmall H had a new engine
that used a water pump. The H was introduced the same year as the popular Farmall M and
since both models shared the same frame, mounted farm implements were interchangeable.
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JOHN DEERE
INDUSTRIAL |
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John Deere Industrial
This
John Deere
AI Industrial tractor is fitted with a third party crane produced by LaPlante-Choate. The LaPlante-Choate used a second power take-off shaft mounted off the belt pulley to operate the crane
Before
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construction equipment
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