Re: What monstrousity of a loader is this?

Posted by LA in Wi. on November 17, 2006 at 09:01:45 from (66.84.235.72):

In Reply to: Re: What monstrousity of a loader is this? posted by a_lead on November 17, 2006 at 08:24:18:

Yes, that is an IH loader alright. Dad had one on his H (my H now)in Iowa. The narrow bucket was the "manure bucket" and the wide one (wider than rear tires) was the "snow bucket". I have photos showing the H wearing a "Heat Houser" and Dad moving snow in the late 1950s. As long as the motor was reved up and the fan was blowing warm air back, it was nice and comfy on that seat.

For several years after WWII most farmers were still using pitch forks to load spreaders. Three uncles of mine bought the first loader in the neighborhood and put it on an H. In those days farmers all had a few dairy cows and they would clean the barn daily by using a wheel barrow and push it out a door and dump it...best was if there was a slightly elevated ramp made of boards so you could pile the manure higher. This was commonly called a "manure pile". About late April it was time to haul the manure to the fields; nobody hauled manure in winter with NF tractors thru the snow Iowa got in those days. The first day the H was used it was comical...the H just sat there and spun the wheels in the slippery manure so tire chains had to be purchased. One uncle was a JD man and it was fun to watch him try to run that H and loader.

We'd haul with 3 spreaders to keep the loader busy. One day I was driving an AC WC on a spreader, stopped to get off and open a gate (our overshoes were always wet and muddy and slippery), my foot slipped off the clutch before I got it in neutral and the WC opened the gate for me. I forgot the WC had hand brakes so the gate was flattened.

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