Bought some old literature

grandpa Love · Mar 1, 2019

We were out and about doing some estimates for work yesterday and stopped at a pickers store. My wife saw these and I had to buy a couple. The one about silage was printed the same year my Ford 960 was built. Neat stuff.

Even a great center fold!!

Traditional Farmer · Mar 1, 2019

Would you like to sell the one on Vetches?

grandpa Love · Mar 1, 2019

Maybe. Lol. Shoot me an offer. They had 5-6 more other ones. Maybe I should go get em all? I only bought ones with tractors on the front. They are sealed in bags.

tomstractorsandtoys · Mar 1, 2019

I find old literature fun to collect. I have several filing cabinets full of tractor and implement brochures. I also have hundreds of Hoards Dairyman,Praire Farmer,Successful Farming, WI Agriculturest and other farm magazines. Mine are mainly from the late 50's to the mid 70's. Tom

tim s · Mar 1, 2019

I love those old Farm literature books,, I have several here that I enjoy looking at,,it is a great way to compare now from then..

JOCCO · Mar 1, 2019

Grandpa I used to buy lots of that stuff (I look like a library) Don't see it so much now on ebay it can be too costly.

formerly ny bill · Mar 1, 2019

the equipment in your brochures is a far cry from the machines that the big timers use today. the idea of putting high sides on a manure spreader to use as a self unloading wagon always struck me funny. we never had a day where there wasn't at least a couple loads of manure to spread, so the spreader wouldn't have worked out for hauling silage.
one of my professors at college took us on field trips to area farms, about the time skid steers were just getting popular. farmer was using his bobcat to scrape the freestall barn and load silage. he had only 1 bucket and didn't wash it in between. prof says "cows like that?"

SVcummins · Mar 1, 2019

I?ve seen cows drink out of a pi$$ hole when they could walk ten more steps to clean water . Geldings will crap in their water trough and you can clean it every day and he will crap in it again by the next morning

JMS/.MN · Mar 1, 2019

Using a bucket for silage and manure, it"s no wonder that Johne"s disease spreads so well.

bwillett · Mar 1, 2019

That does not look like a bucket to me, more like a fork of some type.

Papaw8 · Mar 2, 2019

Must be something wrong with my eyes, looks like the tractor in the vetches booklet is leaning to the left but the left rear wheel is standing verticle.i must be nuts!

Papaw8 · Mar 2, 2019

Should be spelled vertical.

rusty6 · Mar 2, 2019

The old machinery and vehicle literature is really collectible now. And of course becoming more expensive to buy. I am lucky to have just accumulated a fair bit of it over the years. This magazine cover is one of my favourites. From about 1950.

Bought some old literature

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