How many of you enjoy old literature on tractors etc.

JOCCO

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From our old tractors and implements even vehicles? Do any of you collect it? I do not collect it as such but have it for items I have and might rescue a piece instead of seeing it go to the dump. I do get pretty wrapped up reading it at times!!
 
I have two large filing cabinets full of sales brochures and another full of Hoard's Dairymen, WI Agriculturist,Farm Journal,The Farm and lots of others. I collect from the late 50's to the mid 70's stuff. Also have way to many operaters manuals. Great winter reading and some times the old magazines have more stuff for my size operation that the current farm magazines. Tom
 
I do,i even subscribe to Hemming Classic Car magazine,they have real life experience's in there. I use to get literature from the dealers as a young man,but threw a lot of it away !
 
Me for one.But some of you already knew that. I've been contributing to the vintage ads thread over on red power forum for over 6 years now. Still haven't run out of material.
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I still have some of the sales brochures from when I was a kid. My dad would go to the parts counter at the jd dealer and I'd go over to the racks and pick out a couple. I always thought they had the prettiest pictures in them.
 
I have a box of old magazines I got at an auction that I just love and look through often. They are mostly farm journal, the farmer, and hoards dairyman. They date back as far as the 1910's. One interesting thing in them is that refrigerators cost the same today as they did back then for a basic model. They have adds for them for about $300 for what must be about the first ones made. Of course those dollars were worth more then, but I found it interesting.
 
Jon: if you ever talk to MRS Jocco it would be best not to mention Boxes of magazines or literature as we both might live a bit longer!!!
 
I have a few old tractor and old Chevy car ads, brochures and manuals, but my main accumulation is of early gun ads -- mostly boy's rifles such as Stevens and Hamilton .22s from the early 1900s. I also like ads for early model Ruger Bearcats and Single Sixes, Stevens/Savage .22/.410 O/U guns, and Marlin Mounties.
 
Ross I forgot to tell I have Fur fish game from 1920's till about 2010 so yes there is a few gun adds in them!!!
 
I have owners and parts manuals for Ford pull type and self propelled combines. Sales brochures for MC self propelled combine. Manual for either an M or E case plow. 290 JD planter. Dearborn pull type corn picker, a Ford original service manual for 600-900 and 1801 tractors. Has a full section on SOS. I have a bunch of White And New Holland manuals. Haven't gone through them yet. Gonna try to get rid of them. Too much stuff laying around.
 
I try to buy all the original manuals and some ad literature on about every tractor and piece of equipment I own, have run out of storage space,am going to buy a 12 X 20 Amish built building to store it in so I can't get to it all.
 
Yes, I've accumulated more junk than I thought I had, daughter lives in Chicago and the last three or four times she's been home she's told me to start thinning the stuff out because she don't know what it is, don't know if it's worth anything and don't have time. I've collected a lot of Farmall Super C adds, Fast hitch mainly plus about twenty Blue Ribbon service manuals that I'd like to sell, trouble is guys are reprinting them and trying to sell them on Ebay for 50 to 70 bucks. I even have a stack of ink blotters and about a 1954 program from a rodeo at the Chicago Amphitheater I think it's called. Daughter might be right.
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I used have a pile of Fur/fish and games too but pitched them in about 1970 and switched to Playboys.
 
I have a bunch of books and manuals for not only my stuff, but old tractors I don't even own.
I even have a huge Nebraska Test book that I love to look through once and a while.
People come to me once and a while to borrow a repair manual for a tractor they have.
Of course I have a bunch of books on Model T's.
Richard in NW SC
 
"[b:654c4848f0][i:654c4848f0]From our old tractors and implements[/i:654c4848f0][/b:654c4848f0]"

Enjoy reading the original operator's manuals because they were all written in the same language.
 
(quoted from post at 12:53:27 03/19/19) "[b:851d58257b][i:851d58257b]From our old tractors and implements[/i:851d58257b][/b:851d58257b]"

Enjoy reading the original operator's manuals because they were all written in the same language.

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I like to pickup brochures and such for equipment I own. Fun to see the accessories that were once available. Might be fun to try to fabricate some of this old stuff you will never find toady.
 
I have enough of everything to make a stack about 10" tall and with my recent move I lad to leave what would amount to anouther stack like that. I never did find my Ohio Farmer magazines from 1897-1898 Or the MM Universal tractor that Grandpa had.
 
I too love old farm literature. So many ideas that work for my size farm. Newer literature is either for city farmers or BTO. I ain't neither.
 
I?ve got boxes and boxes and boxes full I like traditional farmers idea about building a shed to keep it all In could have brochures manuals books and toy tractors in there
 

My favorite to collect is "The Country Gentleman" magazines. I just love them. Full of good info, good serials, good articles on equipment and new ideas. The advertising back then was way better than now. Farm Journal is good and so is The Farm. I also like some of the old farm papers, like "The Rural New Yorker". Bygone days, good stuff.
 

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