1947 John Deere B Decal installation

I bought my decals from Kuhns Equipment Repair and Tractor Parts. I specifically bought Vinyl. There were no directions or anything else with the decal shipment!
I have posted many questions during the restoration of my 1947 John Deere B Tractor sn202247. I could not have gotten this far without help from this Forum. Thanks to everyone!
Now I need to know the Exact Placement of the decals and the way to Install them for Best results.
Please help me again? Thanks, Bob
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Bob,You have gone to a lot of work and expense to get to where you are now. I personally would send those decals back and call Travis Jorde in Rochester, Minnesota and get a set of his. He will tell you where every one goes and how to apply them and a wonderful gentleman to do business with. His number is 507-288-5483.
 
Reviewed the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/John-Deere-Tractor-Data-Book/dp/0760302286">John Deere Tractor Data Book: Two-Cylinder Models Through 1960</a> on page 188.

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Hope this helps.

Looks like you did a very good job on your tractor; nice work.
 
In addition to what James posted.
The JD115 on sides of hood on yours since it is a round rear axle housing they go centered on the side of the hood. On later ones with square axle housings they go up towards the front side of the hood.
 
I think once John deere went to the press frame, the John Deere on the hood was moved from the center to 2" from the front edge of the hood. Travis can tell you for sure.
 
No it was when the round axle housings went to square axle housings.
Someone may have some exact serial number ? But this is what I have seen with my own eyes on original paint machines.
 
Very nice job! Those decals will really set it off. Mike may very well be correct on the hood decal placement. Here's what I read somewhere. They started with the forward placed decal when they moved the two rivets holding the pivot plate for the shutter linkeage up and out of the "channel" where it would have been in the way for forward placed decal. JD wanted the John Deere decal right next to the model designation so the two would be read as one. The thing I don't know is if they started the forward location exactly the same time they moved the rivets. I think they moved the rivets in '47 with the pressed frame but that doesn't mean they moved decal at same time. I would go with Mike's advice being that he has said he has seen original unpainted '47-'49 w/round housings having centered locations. They started square housings in late '49. Here's a pic of mine but it is a 1950 and I don't have pics of rear for warning decals. Everythings the same accept hood decal possible placement. John Deere also goes centered on rear of seat back metal plate.
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We had two model B's on our farm. The picture is #274xxx, a 1950 model with square axles and John Deere placed in the middle of the hood... Dad sold it in 2002. Mine is a '52 model 308xxx with a water pump and John Deere 2" from the front of the hood panel. My understanding was the placement change came with the water pump models at the 306xxx range.
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I was always under the general assumption that the Forward decal position applied to JD tractors determined to be "Late Styled".
I am not sure a 1947 Model "B" is "Late Styled".??
I know the Horse Power is much less..

Ron.
 
Your decals should be like B-maniac has his. The rear axles went from round to square at serial number 248257.
 
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I was always under the general assumption that the Forward decal position applied to JD tractors determined to be "Late Styled".
I am not sure a 1947 Model "B" is "Late Styled".??
I know the Horse Power is much less..

Ron.
Ron, the styled B was made in to early 1947 and is sometimes called a 1947. The first "Late Styled B" serial number 201000, was built was built Feb. 4th, 1947. Late styled tractors had the single stick shifter. Styled had the Hi/Lo. The Late styled did have more Power.
 
Wonder if yours had the square axle with the holes drilled and tapped into the top or not ? First square axle models did not. The rear wheel castings with the extra little holes on the one in that picture should be on a tractor later than 1950 ?
 
CLW you just contradicted yourself ???
Bob's tractor is # 202xxx ? so it is a round axle as even seen in the picture.
So it WOULD NOT have had the decals like B-Maniacs tractor.
Your post with the quote from Green Magazine sums it up very well.
 
(quoted from post at 09:35:52 10/17/14) CLW you just contradicted yourself ???
Bob's tractor is # 202xxx ? so it is a round axle as even seen in the picture.
So it WOULD NOT have had the decals like B-Maniacs tractor.
Your post with the quote from Green Magazine sums it up very well.
Nice catch Mike. I Got ahead of myself when the article said tractor pictures in the summer of 49 had the decals moved fwd. and forgot to recheck Bob's serial number. Yes, Bob's decals would be centered on the hood, not forward. Mid summer would have been around serial number 240,000-245,000.
 
Correct on the wheel hole count and year, Mike. Also, if JD was anything like the company I retired from ,they probably made the policy change on Monday and the guy on vacation that week didn't get the info so after he came back, installed them back in center for a couple days/weeks until someone finally told him to move them up. I'm sure it happens in all factories.
 
Back in the days before mechanized peanut harvest, the crop was dug and stacked on sticks, placed in the ground like fence posts, called shocks. This was done in October. These shocks were allowed to dry while the rest of the crops were harvested. During November attention was turned to threshing the shocked peanuts. What you see in the picture is our old Frick Peanut Picker running at full capacity. The two tractors are bringing shocks of peanuts to the picking machine where they were fed to the feeder table with pitchforks. The Ford has a two shock carrier on its 3 pt.

The implement on the John Deere B is a 4 shock transporter Dad fashioned. It sat on the cultivator lip and bolted to both the frame and the axles with a walkway to the front, where one would pull up to a shock and one of the four long levers would be unhooked and lowered to attach a chain to the top of the shock-stick and then pull down on the lever to raise the shock out of the ground and re-attaching the lever to the hook on the platform. That B coming back to the picker with four shocks attached looked like it had 4 dead outlaws swinging on a rope. It was also a bear to steer.

These photos show Tom Newsome forking vines to the machine and Uncle Sam sewing up 100 lb. bags of finished product. Even now, when asked how a crop did, a producer will describe his yield in "bags per acre"
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The pictured B is ser# 274881. I have the original bill of sale dated 8/15/1950 where Dad bought the tractor, a 44H plow, BZ16 cultivators and a KBA 718 harrow for $2500.

I don't remember if it had holes on the top of the axle or not. The 52 does and still has the cork plugs. What I do remember is that it had white-faced gauges and a one-piece quadrant. The gear shift lever had a slight bend, rounded on top with no knob. Both B's were equipped with shutters which were promptly removed and set in a corner of the shop, where they remain to this day.
 

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