1949 super A farmall

Greg_b

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Hi everyone,
Just got my Grandfather's old farmall home to Arkansas from Florida. My plans are to go through the tractor and clean it up to eventually show it as my Grandfather had most of the implements for it. It has the breaking plow, the planter with more seed wheels than I knew there were seeds to plant, a fertilizer spreader( I think), a disk, and cultivators. My question or questions are does anyone have a paint code for the implements my understanding is they we're blue? Also does anyone know the finish type of the seed hopper? This stuff has sat in a shop covered in dust and cobwebs for 40 years I bet. He just used the tractor to plow a little garden, bush hog and move things around the old place. It hasn't been used much the last few years he just got to old to get up on it. He passed last month so that's how I came to own it. My dad remembers some of how to use it but not all of it. So any information on how to operate some of this stuff would be helpful. Sorry for the long post just kind of excited to get to use this cool piece of history.
 
If you will remove bolts and guards sometimes there will be paint that been covered with a guard or something that also will show the original paint even a magnifing glass can show original colors. Those plates are valuable for people who want to use them for different seeds. An original owners manual will have a description and their purpose also instructions how to set the planter. Great find
 
All those implements, intact, in one fell swoop! Give thanks to your Grandfather and your lucky stars.
 
I believe finding ih blue is difficult. I recall ace hardware having rattle cans of ih blue. There is a Martin Seymour number that’s close to ih blue but i don’t have it.
 
Besides the blue paints already mentioned, VanSickle 460 International Blue is a good match. IH's blue was probably most subject to variation from the factory, so don't get too worked up over the exact shade. Implements were painted in a "red, white, and blue" color scheme. They actually used cream for white. There were other colors that showed up once in a while (mainly black and ocher). The seed hoppers you asked about were most likely blue, could depend on which type hopper you have.

When you are ready to work on a specific implement, ask about the colors. Be sure to identify the implement and specifics of how it is equipped and we will try to describe the color scheme.
 

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