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BillyinStoughton

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Finished restoring my H about a month and a half ago...but I've always had one rule..."I won't own a tractor that has paint on it's drawbar." Well, after painting my H, it did have paint on the drawbar. So it was time to take care of that...and I put the old girl to work. Here are the pics. (There is no room for a trailer queen in southern Wisconsin...cause if it don't hay...it'll do tobacco). Ran it on the NH 467 haybine today. The old girl handled herself well in third gear no matter how thick the alfalfa got. It was nice to put some hours on the old girl.

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You know what...no matter how good it hays, it will still be in the tobacco field next weekend. Ain't life a b*tch for an old Farmall?

Billy
 
Nice looking Billy!


My rule is she's gotta work as good as she looks!



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Mine will be on the spreader today!

I came across a '42 H what do you think should I redo it? It's an all fuel straight and not tight may not take much to get it running. Seeing your pic gets me thinking!!!!!!


Butch
 
Billy, my Dad's 1950 H came from the factory with those "turkey track" tires. Those tires would not pull much in wet conditions, like hauling manure...just ball up and sit there spinning because the cleats could not clean out. I kept bugging Dad about getting "open center" tires on it, after a few years he did so and then it pulled better My H is used for our plow days and now proudly wears a "land-side hitch" for that purpose.
LA in Reedsburg
 
Billy, you probably have no count as to your revival efforts, very nice! I like your line about 'trailer queen'. With that nice bldg. maybe you have room for more?? Surprised to hear there is still tobacco in Dane Co. I thought the market was completely gone, haven't seen any in Vernon Co. at all. Billy, just one photo tip, flip that H around in the alfalfa field and get the sun on the front of your tractor, preferably in 'sweet light'. Hey, show us one in the tobacco field also, just remember the good light. Squish those tobacco worms :^).
 
What sort of tobacco do you grow up there?

I recall being quite surprised some years ago to discover the fields with all the poles sticking up in them where they grow leaf for wrappers down in Connecticut.
 
Can that haybine be offset more to the right? Is the drawbar on the haybine all the way over to the last hole on the left? Can you cut hay with it like that without have a tire in the uncut hay? I ask becuase I am looking to replace my haybine and that one looks like the right size for my small acreage.

Gordo
 
All the tobacco grown around here is chewing tobacco and cigar wrapper. Mostly numbers 903B and 608. It gets big and it gets heavy. We topped last week and some of it was up to my chest and it hadn't even flowered yet.
 
Good pickup on the pic Gordo. I actually had just closed the haybine up for road transport when that picture was taken...that's why you see the tires of the haybine on the windrow. You're sharp as a tack!
 
Boy, we still have lots of tobacco in Dane county...and it's gonna get busy in the coming weeks getting stuffed into the tobacco sheds.

Speaking of Vernon county. I ripped up to Rockton on the Harley a couple of weeks ago and was surprised I didn't see more tobacco up that way.
 
Heck, if that H could be had at the right price you might as well go after it. It doesn't take that much capital to restore an H. I didn't have to rebuild the engine in my H, but I did completely re-gasket the motor, replace every bearing in the transmission, rear end, and pulley gear box...and surprisingly it didn't cost me too much. I got all the way through it for about $1000. Ya can't do that with too many other tractors.

Nice picture. You made it up to the RPRU I see. I was there three days and was a busy boy.
 
Billy, sounds like you just did what I just started. I had everything behind the clutch out and got all new gaskets and seals. I didn't replace all the bearings, just the two outers on the axles. Everything else is good enough for the rest of the tractors life.
To Billy and the rest, don't forget Utica Fest is this weekend. Good tractor pulls both days and a bunch of other stuff.
 
503 and 503B, if memory serves me well. All a person needs is a strong back and a week mind, thus we Norwegians fit the bill. About the time harvest was over, we were in shape to go for a month of it. Ate and slept good also. Billy, I haven't seen a single field. Also, you were on the wrong end of the county - you probably had their chicken. Next time go to Chaseburg - The Hideaway. Two weeks ago they told me there were 200 bikers. The suds and food is tops. That was my tractor ride Sunday, great scenery, well...not many women, but still a beautiful ride. I got back after dark.
 
That sure looks good Billy! I really like the look of the metal belt pulley. I've never seen one around here.
 
Hey...hey...hey...who knows about Utica Fest but me? I'll be there for three days straight! Utica is the center of the Universe ya know. Be sure to stop into Mitch's Utica Bar after they close the beer pavilion. And the number one rule in Utica is, "It's not how deep ya furrow...it's how many rounds ya make!"
 
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