Posted by wisbaker on April 19, 2016 at 13:40:39 from (173.26.84.185):
In Reply to: Tractor restorers posted by DeltaRed on April 19, 2016 at 11:45:13:
I say respect the heritage. We had mostly Farmalls, my H wasn't "correct" even when we bought it, it was sold to us as a fairly "low Houred" tractor and the wear on the pedals and drawbar and overall tightness of the linkages and pedals supported that. BUT it had a M&W throttle lever on it, an 8 volt battery, no lights but had the H/L on the switch and no knob on the shift lever. There was non-OEM light mounts on the light bar and didn't have the chrome "FARMALL" emblem on the nose, but it was one in a hundred as it still had the little piece on the bottom of the grill in place you have to remove to put on the cultivators- call the correct police! We were told it was an early 50's model when we bought it but when I changed the back tires the date codes in the rims indicated 1946, so now we have to ask was it a war time tractor shipped on steel that got a new pair of pneumatic tires after the war when they became available? Couldn't do a lot of what we did with it on steel and wouldn't have much use now on steel but it would be "correct" It was probably less than 30 years old when it came to us, it's probably 70 now if it's still out there. Paint was faded and she had some rust but didn't have and dents and there was a repair on the housing the starter bolted on, evidently she kicked back once and broke out part of the starter mount. Our Super M had been gussied up with a new paint job, still needed a rebuild and we eventually did that, and we put on some hydraulic hoses and couplers that weren't OEM style to use 3-14 hydraulic lift plow. Oh when she got rebuilt the block was trashed and we got another one, dates and castings numbers would indicate it came from a 400 and when it went back together it wasn't the same size as a Super M should be. 40 years ago neither tractor was a show piece, they were old tractors still earning their keep. If someone were to get them and try to restore them would they go back to OEM and make 'em the way they were in 1946 or 1953 or preserve them as they were in 1983 when they last worked? My dad never drove 'em when they were new and if I replaced all the worn and broken stuff it wouldn't be the tractor that Dad and I used when we had the farm and that would also entail undoing some of his handy work. If I had either one of them or could get them back I would try to but back like they were when WE used 'em not like they were twenty years before I ever knew 'em, including the Delco alternators they both had when they left our farm, might consider putting a paint job on them but not much more.
They were Farmalls say either one of them had the 9 speed or a M&W live power kit correct? NO but they represent something one of the owners did to the tractor to make it better fit his farming operation and that is history. In that case it would point out how far behind IHC was in tractor development in the 50's, but how dedicated IH owners were to their red tractors.
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