[Farmall] O-12 Progress

[John Hall]

Dean, I based my sales figures on what I have found over the years when old 
iron hunting. F-12's probalby outnumber all the rest of the old iron of that 
vintage that I have found. F-20's would be second. For what its worth, IHC 
tractors account for almost all of my pre 1940 finds.

John


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dean Vinson" <dean at vinsonfarm.net>
To: "'Farmall/IHC mailing list'" <farmall at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2007 11:50 AM
Subject: RE: [Farmall] O-12 Progress


>I don't have any real historical data to draw on, John, but the F-12 and
> F-14 tractors seem pretty rare to me around here (Ohio/Indiana).  I do see
> them at tractor shows and occasionally as yard ornaments, but I think the
> F-20s were much more common (maybe it's just because that's what my dad 
> grew
> up with, so my memories are influenced by his stories).  But certainly the
> big flat soybean and corn farms would have been more likely to use the
> bigger tractors, I think.  And the big majority in row-crop form, too.  I
> didn't even know there were O and I and W series tractors!
>
> Saw a heck of a nice little O-12 or something at the IHC collector's 
> auction
> in Sydney, Ohio, several years ago.  Straight and original and clean, and 
> I
> should have bought it--seems to me it didn't bring that much, but I was 
> just
> standing there looking at it as something of a curiousity since it didn't
> look like an F-20 or an M.  Duh!
>
> Dean Vinson
> Dayton, Ohio
> www.vinsonfarm.net
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: farmall-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
> [mailto:farmall-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of John Hall
> Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2007 7:00 AM
> To: Farmall/IHC mailing list
> Subject: Re: [Farmall] O-12 Progress
>
> Got to thinking about the concentration of 12's in my area. We are fairly
> heavily populated with F-12's and some F-14's. Not too many of the other
> versions besides an occasional W. Appears they are plentiful in Karls neck
> of the woods also. I guess you could say they were good sellers on the 
> east
> and west coast since I'm in NC and Karls in California. Are there any
> sections of the country where, compared to other tractors of the same
> vintage that were sold there when new, that these were not popular? I 
> would
> venture to guess maybe the midwest since they were so small?
>
> John Hall
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Karl Olmstead" <olmstead at ridgenet.net>
> To: "Farmall/IHC mailing list" <farmall at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Sent: Friday, February 02, 2007 10:03 AM
> Subject: Re: [Farmall] O-12 Progress
>
>
>>I can't imagine where you got that idea, John!  But just for you, I went
>>out last night and performed an inventory.  Lest you think that these are
>>all pristine tractors, you should know that most have stuck engines, and
>>many are obviously just parts tractors.  Two of the F-12s exist only on my
>>parts shelves, and several more are just frames and transaxles.
>>
>> O-12 : 7
>> O-14 : 0
>> I-12 : 1
>> I-14 : 1
>> Fairway 12 : 1
>> Fairway 14 : 0
>> W-12 : 1
>> W-14 : 0
>> Regular : 1
>> F-20 : 2
>> T-20 : 5
>> F-12 : 24
>> F-14 : 1
>> 22-36 : 1
>>
>> That's the majority of my collection; in addition there are dibs and dabs
>> of newer Farmalls, Olivers, JDs, A-Cs and a Ford.
>>
>> I'm concentrating on filling the most obvious voids... the -14s.
>>
>> -Karl
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>>> Dang it Karl you got so many of them things that I (and probably half 
>>> the
>
>>> others on the list) can't remember which one you are working on!!!!
>>>
>>> I got to ask---how may  12's and 14's do you have including F, W and O
>>> versions?
>>>
>>> Seems to me you are by them like I am by chainsaws---I think we have 51.
>>>
>>> John
>>
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