192? mccormick deering (farmall)

i have had this ,i've been told by no expert mind you that it is a 1928 mccormick deering(farmall)International row cropper he called it.
it has steel wheels,the fronts are close together and the rears are 11' wide from outside to outside with 2 rows of 8" kleats,it has 2 gas tanks and some kind of manifold switchover,you can start it on gas then switch it over to diesel or whatever,the steering shaft goes the full length of the hood an hooks into a tower at the front,at the bottom of the tower is a shaft with 2 cables hooking into it and 1 cable runs down each side hooking into the rear brakes,you can turn the front wheels sideways and what ever way you turned {R-L} it pulls the cable on that side and locks the brake on that rear wheel causing tractor to go in circles,the tractor did run until 2008 then it was parked over the winter(we live in canada so winters are long and cold)and in the spring it was seized,my question is can anyone out there tell me the exact year of it and the approx.value if i was to decide to sellit thank you....J.Lorne Simmons

yes, can identify with serial number and picture would be nice !does the steering have open gears at top

I would take some ATF or diesel or penetrating oil and pour it down the exhaust. This will help limit any further damage to the motor and may help free it up for you or the future owner. Then COVER THE EXHAUST with a soup can or bucket or ??? so no water or crap can get in it.

A picture would really help in this case. IDK where the serial numbers were on the Regulars/F-XX tractors.

It is probably a Farmall Regular, F-20, or F-30. Post picture and or serial number to tell for sure

Harold H

If the steering gears are open than the tractor is a Regular. If the gears are covered it would likely be an F-20 or possibly an F-30. In any case he serial number should be stamed on a flat machined surface on the left side of the engine block, on the top of the left frame rail and it should have a serial number plate on the brakcet supporting the fuel tank. Which should help you to determine the year it was built. The exception to this is the early Regulars as they only have the serial number stamped on the engine block.

Serial number location on block

Take the plugs out and get a bunch of ATF in there too. It will keep it from getting tighter & may loosen it up again.

"Regular" has 3-speed transmission, a separate starting tank (can't start kerosene with a cold engine), and open steering gear. The automatic brakes were meant to make short turns in corn fields so as not to knock down corn (old IHC brochure I have shows how it was done--I learned to do that from the brochure). All Farmalls had this until the letter series came out. There were a few changes made to the tractor during production years (larger venturi, different seat mounts, addition of oil filter, enclosed governor levers). A "revolutionary" tractor because it really was a farm-all--it did everything that previously had been done with horses. Of course, it didn't nuzzle the farmer who fed it, like a horse might.
A fun machine in a parade, but a bit of a beast in the field, especially on 36" rubber (much faster than the original 40" steel wheels). Noisy, rough-riding, uncomfortable seating position, steering that would whip out of your hands if you hit a rut and weren't holding on. Spent years on a "Regular" and an F-20. Fond memories, but today, I'd just play with them.
Incidentally, I can find no references in IHC literature that calls this tractor "Regular." Farmers used to say that, to distinguish from F-20: "No, she ain't a F-20, she's just a reg'ler Farmall." From a distance, they looked a lot alike if you didn't know the details.

Incidentally, I can find no references in IHC literature that calls this tractor "Regular." Farmers used to say that, to distinguish from F-20: "No, she ain't a F-20, she's just a reg'ler Farmall."

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When the Regular was the only "Farmall" there was no need for any designation other than Farmall. When the F-30 came along in '31, Harvester started using the "Regular" designation to avoid ambiguity with the larger Farmall. The term was used in IH publications after that time. That only inlcuded about one year of production until the F-20 replaced the Regular.

For Jim Becker:
Can you point to IHC publications that used "Regular" (with the capital R, which turns "regular" meaning "ordinary" into a name)?
If so, would you give the title and copy out the line of text that uses "Regular" as a name?

I have one old IHC publication that does use "regular" (small R), I think in comparing it to an F-20, but in a fair number of other publications I have, I have seen "original Farmall" or "the Farmall," but not "Regular Farmall."

I am not trying to start an argument, I hope you understand. In fact, I would like to see if this is really true, mostly because modern writers of IHC history always say things like "IHC began calling it the Regular Farmall..." I have the impression that a lot of writers of these books depend on the "truth" as published by previous writers. If the previous writers are passing on errors, then the errors become truth. This is small potatoes in a world where there are far more important things happening, I realize, but it's kinda nice to get away from that stuff for a while and go back to the days we remember fondly (I guess because we sometimes block out the stuff that wasn't so nice back in those days). I can't explain this to anyone in my family who didn't grow up on a farm, but I'll bet a lot of you fellows who read these columns can get into this.

I can't argue the capitalization of "regular" but the phrase "regular Farmall" was used in multiple IH publications. The word "regular" was used not capitalized in a lot of places. Some uses were in places that would have been capitalized anyway, thus inconclusive. The mid-late '30s general line catalogs had references, usually as "regular Farmall" but sometimes stated such that "regular" was a noun.

Here is a capitalized example from a Parts Catalog.

The TC6C parts catalog is titled "Farmall tractor (Regular and Narrow Tread) So the "Regular moniker was used even then.

The tread thing was one where IH was really bad at using different words. In the context of the F-20, I have seen reference to "xxx and narrow tread" where xxx could be "standard", "regular" or "wide" even at different places in the same publication.