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Farmall 12 -- old advertising

SweetFeet

SweetFeet

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Just thought this was a neat old ad for the Farmall 12... and that some of you might enjoy seeing it. Wish I could read it - but the orginal photo is not clear.

If it was ten or twelve dollars I'd buy it - but thinking it was 24.99.

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Love it. Granddad bought one brand new. We still have what's left of it. He bought an 8n about the time I Was born so I never heard one run.
Ron
 
My uncle had a Farmall but I can't remember if it was a 12 or 14. Is there any physical difference in the two? He had the Farmall for cult. and planting and a JD-D for plowing and tillage. This was back in the 40s.
 
Very neat piece of advertisement. They were nice tractors but they don't beat our old Regulars do they.Good Luck to you.
 
Love the old advertising Sweetfeet. Glad you shared it with us. I'll have to dig out my F12 papers.
 
John B.,

The old ads really are neat.

It is surprising to me that machinery companies would use a heart... or sometimes flowers in their ads. They must have somehow wanted it to appeal to the womenfolk too.

Kind of like rusted... we used to have an F-12, but sold it. Against my better judgment - but sold nonetheless. :)
 
Mt. Man,

Nope, they sure don't beat out a Regular. Really like the old Regulars! Can't wait to drive ours one day.
 
The F-14 had the tilted steering shaft... but many F-12 were converted.

There may be other differences too - but I don't know that much about the either tractor. I am most familiar with F-20's and Regulars than any other IHC tractors.
 
The f-14 had the taller steering support, universal joint at front steering box, longer brake levers, taller seat post, breather for engine was on right side of valve cover, the f-12 had breather behind fan made from a street L fitting and pipe. Also top radiator where air cleaner bolts on had three holes on f-14 and only 2 holes on f-12. Small but very interesting changes. Tom
 
The tilted steering and longer brake handles were the easiest.most obvius way to differentiate.The biggest difference (of coarse) was a wopping 2 more horsepower.This was accomplished by increasing the engine rpm by 200.From 1400 to 1600. the input shaft gears were changed to maintain current speeds.Other than that,they were the 'same' tractor.
 
It will never run again. It has been exposed to the weather for 60 years. 55 of those near salt water. It's enough to keep it and take it were ever we go. my grand father inherited a farm from his uncle. He sold it and bought a farm on Edisto Island and a 35 Ford truck and that F12.
Ron
 
Delta Red,
Only if you want to see and old, round lady on a tractor. LOL.

I hope to plow with it too. Learned a tiny bit on our F-20 this year - but I want to actually learn to do it all myself.
 
I spent part of a couple summers cultivating corn for a neighbor with an F12. Great running old tractor, started easy, 3 speeds, all of them slow. Our John Deere H had far easier cultivators to operate(hand lift), and better speeds. Never cultivated with horses, but an F12 had to be a HUGE improvement.
 
I ran one just like the ad tractor for a neighbor when I was growing up...1946-1947. It didn't have fenders so I ate a lot of dust and dirt plowing and fitting down crop land and cultivating. It was pretty crude but they paid me and fed me good and were swell people.
 
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