creeper gears in h-m

jamie majors · Oct 7, 2013

what was the creeper low 1st gears actually used for when they first came out in h's @ m's

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luv2wrench · Oct 7, 2013

corn picker

rustyfarmall · Oct 7, 2013

Had to be something other than a cornpicker. Lots of Hs and Ms around here, and nearly everyone of them served time under a cornpicker, but none that I know of had the low, low first gear. If all of them did have the creeper gear, then that option would not be rare and anyone who wanted it today would easily be able to find it.

Athol Carr · Oct 7, 2013

The O-4 and O-6 orchard tractors were fitted with the low first gear. hence the heavy front wheels fitted to these tractors.

Haas · Oct 7, 2013

The industrial tractors (I-4,I-6,I-9) I think usually had different gearing. My I-6 has the low low gear and a high speed 4th. Third gear is about the same as 4th in an M.

Bob M · Oct 7, 2013

Agree....

As a young adult I harvested more acres of sweet than I care to remember with a Super M and a 2-row mounted picker. Nearly all of it was done using 2nd or 3rd.

Anonymous-0 · Oct 7, 2013

So the H could pull the forage chopper with a screen in it.......

Glenn

randy hall · Oct 7, 2013

potato digging gears

LMack · Oct 7, 2013

Low gear (not the lo-lo creeper gear) could be used for pulling a trans planter, cultivating small crops, planting fragile seed such as peanuts, pulling out of a hole, working a trailer in close quarters, pulling logs, stretching a fence, turning around in close quarters, going over rough ground, pulling a plow through a piece of heavy ground, operating a corn picker in really good corn mounted or otherwise, pulling a peanut combine, pulling a wheat combine . . .

Mark-Mi · Oct 7, 2013

My dad bought a new M with creeper gear to use at dead pulls on concrete.
Dad said grandpa asked him why did you buy that M with creeper gear. Dad told him " To pick down corn".

PretendFarmer · Oct 8, 2013

My H as you may or may not be aware, has that low low first. Serial ending in X1A. I recently drove around someone else's X1G H. That was cool. X1G is low low first and 7 mph fourth.
Besides the tractor pulls, I like the low gear for backing up trailers because with the low first comes a low reverse.

Trkr · Oct 9, 2013

I have a 50M with the X1A low first gear.I bought it from the estate sale of the original owner years ago.Came from a dairy farm in northern N.J.,was told the owner used to pull an old Fox chopper with it,in the hills up there.I could see you needing a low gear doing that with an M and wagon full of ensilage behind you and keeping the chopper wound up.The low reverse does make it nice backing a wagon load of hay up into the bank barn without slipping the clutch.

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