Re: History lesson please

Posted by Hugh MacKay on May 02, 2003 at 16:12:27 from (64.228.11.134):

In Reply to: History lesson please posted by Sean in Calgary on May 02, 2003 at 10:49:11:

Sean: The first off set was the Farmall A in 1939. The B was as well but in my opinion was another catagory. The A was followed in late 1947 by the Super A, and it had hydraulics added. These tractors were designed for row crop cultivation, and being 1 row and offset, operator could have a good view of the ground working tools in relation to the crop. They were the tobacco farmers favourite. What IH didn't count on was they became a lot of peoples favourite. About the same time the Super A came on the market a much lighter version called the Cub came along. The Cub stayed in production pretty much unchanged other than cosmetics until production ended in 1975.

In 1954 the Super A became first the Super A1 for roughly 2000 copies and then the 100. The engine changed from 113 cu inch thermosyphon cooling at introduction of the Super A1 to a 123 cu inch engine with water pump and presurized cooling. The single point fast hitch was also added at that time. In 1956 it became the 130 and in 58 it became the 140 which lasted until the end of production in 1979.

IH followed in 1980 with 274 followed a few years later by 284. These tractors were Japaneese diesels and really never enjoyed the success of the others. Five years after CaseIH became a reality these tractors were gone. Some say they died with the tobacco industry. I think it was at the hands of larger tractors.

These little tractors had a row crop clearence of 22 inches. There was a high clear model with larger wheels that had close to 30 inches clearence. By the way being a cultivator tractor the Super A was one of very few tractors ever biult that would pull 3 times it's own weight on a stone drag.

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