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kcm.MN

kcm.MN

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Would you bid $40,000?

Read about it here:
https://antiquetractorblog.com/2015/11/20/whats-so-special-about-the-40-k-farmall-h/


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I watched that tractor sell on RFD channel. Supposedly has
original paint and dealer name on it. No, I wouldn't pay that
much.

I knew a local guy that had an original Massey Harris 33. It was
straight as an arrow. Had very good original paint with the
dealers name and phone number on a decal on the side of the fuel
tank. Has a two digit phone number on the decal. Was a much
nicer tractor than that H.
 
I think a bit of B S. On this tractor. It ding even have the
original muffler clamp. Hood dont look right either. I think I
got a couple better originals.
 
I have a 1945 H in nice original condition witch I bought of a vegetable farmer 20
years ago. If you look at the hood it looks as it has not kept as well as the rest
of the tractor and mine is just the same. I spray a coat of preservitive on my
tractor every year to keep the originality. It is magneto ignition and when I start
it up in the spring it useually starts on the first or second crank of the
handle.Sorry no pictures. MJ
 
Dad bought an H brand new in 1951. He came home from the war in 1945 and started farming on rented land with used and borrowed
equipment. I was born in April of 1949 at the normal planting time for our area, so I kept him from getting into the field for
about a week. As it turned out, that was a good thing, because this area had a hailstorm that killed all the cotton that was
planted at the normal time. He was ahead of the game that year, but when he bought the new H in 1951, his crop got hailed out, and
he decided to move his small family to town to try to make a living. Twelve years later we were back in the area, and Dad was
trying to farm cotton again. He located the H he had bought new, after several others had owned it. I learned a lot about working
on them by keeping it running for those few years. It made me partial to green tractors.

Butch
 
It should look better than that unless the climate is that bad where it was stored. I worked on a neighbors original Super M that looked better than this H. The neighbors Super M has the dealer sticker too but spark plug wires and tune up parts have been replaced.
 
I was at a farm/estate sale.

An item came up for bid that on a good day was only worth a few hundred dollars.

Two bidders kept going back and forth until they were well into the thousands of dollars.

The auctioneer stopped the sale and got down to have a chat with the bidders.

Turned out to be that a sister of the deceased who no longer lived in the area had wanted the item for sentimental reasons, however it happened although the bidders (distant cousins) knew each other they didn't know they were both given the same pay whatever it takes instructions.

Once they got things figured out the item re-sold for a few hundred dollars.

Makes me wonder if something similar happened with this tractor.

Maybe two bickering brothers that both want to own grandpa's first tractor that will pay whatever it takes to spite the other.
 
Wow, I gotta get my original, un-repainted white cub demonstrator to Mecums! One of the tires on it is a replacement, so I guess I could let it go for 39K...
 
(quoted from post at 07:24:21 11/25/21) Wow, I gotta get my original, un-repainted white cub demonstrator to Mecums! One of the tires on it is a replacement, so I guess I could let it go for 39K...
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Only if you were able to keep the original air. :shock:

I wonder if maybe someone wrote out 4000 on a bid card, but added an extra '0'? Or maybe bid $400.00 but left out the decimal? :lol: :lol:
 
I'm on board with you. I hate to be a correct police, and shoot the story down, but some things in photos don't smell right.
The hood paint has aged/faded differently than the rest of the tractor. The decals on the hood, and the gear shifter don't jive with the same year. And if the tractor is a 43 as the gear shifter would indicate, it was highly unlikely it was sold new on factory rubber. You had to have a pile of rubber ration stamps to order one new on rubber in 43. Not saying this was impossible by any means. But I have heard stories about people having to sweep the country side getting rubber stamps from neighbors, friends, and family to accumulate enough stamps to get tractor tires. Also, if he purchased this tractor new to cultivate corn on his lone homeplace, he would of wanted steel wheels anyways. Those who had rubber tires, but also kept thier steel wheels, would put the steel back on to cultivate. Neighbor down the road would take his rubber tired rear wheels off, and put the skeleton rear steel back on his oliver 70 every year, just to cultivate.
 
(quoted from post at 07:49:16 11/25/21) I'm on board with you. I hate to be a correct police, and shoot the story down, but some things in photos don't smell right.
The hood paint has aged/faded differently than the rest of the tractor. The decals on the hood, and the gear shifter don't jive with the same year. And if the tractor is a 43 as the gear shifter would indicate, it was highly unlikely it was sold new on factory rubber. You had to have a pile of rubber ration stamps to order one new on rubber in 43. Not saying this was impossible by any means. But I have heard stories about people having to sweep the country side getting rubber stamps from neighbors, friends, and family to accumulate enough stamps to get tractor tires. Also, if he purchased this tractor new to cultivate corn on his lone homeplace, he would of wanted steel wheels anyways. Those who had rubber tires, but also kept thier steel wheels, would put the steel back on to cultivate. Neighbor down the road would take his rubber tired rear wheels off, and put the skeleton rear steel back on his oliver 70 every year, just to cultivate.
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it is a '43 shouldn't the hood decal read "McCormick-Deering"?
 
I was on an auction once where two brothers wound up bidding on the same item.

The auctioneer stopped the bidding and asked the brothers if they realized they were bidding against each other.

One replied, I thought that was what auctions were for.

The bidding resumed.
 
I saw that too. Yes it should! Either
wrong hood decals, or wrong 43 steel
knob gear shifter.
The reason I know this, I have a 43. I
put on McCormick hood decals, not
realizing the earlier years had
McCormick Deereing. I didnt do my
homework, and didn't find out until
after the fact, that Deereing was
dropped a few years later than 43. So
my decals are wrong for my 43. I never
re-decaled it. Maybe when I repaint it
next time. Its getting close to due
again.
 
In my area most running H Farmalls sell for $500-1,200....A real nice Super H might bring $2,000...Even with very little use no H Farmall is worth even close to $40,000...
 
I agree with you guys. Paint fade on hood ain't right, looks like grille was pounded out on top of emblem. I don't think rear rubbers look like they are 70 years old. Fronts yes, rears no.
 
I have 4 1940 H tractors and all but one ran when parked I I have tried to sell them all as a package deal for $2000 and no one so far has wanted them
 
All H's had a farmall grill emblem through the entire production from day one. The Super's may have went to the IH emblem.
The Deerering was dropped from the hood wording above the larger FARALL lettering. It was reduced to just say McCormick in the smaller lettering. This change did not happen in 43. 46 or 47 would be my
guess.
The wheatland versions possibly had something else. I think only the row crops carried the Farmall logo.
 
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