H and m still in use?

I was wondering how many people still use h and m farmalls on a regular basis or has most people updated to a more modern tractor?

These older tractors are easier to work on.
 
Still running our Farmall M on the farm all the time. Also hoping to purchase our old AW-7 Diesel back one day. F12 will be going to work again, once the motor is completed. I like tractors to do what they were built to do. My neighbour has a 10-20 turning into so much iron oxide in his yard, whereas I like to see them running and working.
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I still use both. My m is the biggest horse I have. I use the h as well for the jobs where I can as it is so miserly with fuel.

Granted, I am just a piddle patch hobbyist, but I make the hobby business pay its own way instead of pulling money from my household real job. I can fix anything on them as well myself whereas a modern tractor I could never afford to pay for (out of the hobby income anyway) and one breakdown would sink me even if the tractor was paid for.
 
I should have added....adding a 3 point hitch to both has made them much more modern and usuable for me as well.
 
I use my '54 Stage II Super H to push snow all winter every winter. Have an 80 inch wide x 16 inch high blade mounted on the loader. Two pair of wheel weights and a pair of tire chains that weigh over 200# each. The live 2-way hyd makes clearing right down to bare concrete on my driveway easy.

My #2 snow mover is the '51 M with StanHoist loader I cleared the barnyard with back in the mid/late 1960's. Has the 80 inch StanHoist snow bucket. M has Char-Lynn P/S, M&W live 2-way hyd. Because of the P/S the M gets used for all the BIG loader projects, like loading 350 cubic yards of tree prunings and brush 2 years ago.

If I had more than 2-1/4 acres to Farm, I could use them more.
 
I use my '47 M almost every weekend on my acreage. I bought it with a loader and what I think is a two-row stalk cutter that I use as a mower to keep the horse pastures trimmed up. While the Model 33A trip bucket loader isn't the greatest loader of all time, it does a lot of work for me that wouldn't get done without it. The $1500 I paid for everything back in 1987 is one of the best purchases I've ever made.
 
I have 2 H's both are sort of out to pasture. The one with the loader (1945) I use for brush clean up, raking and pulling wagons. The other one (1941) is at the hunting cabin pulls a brush hog. I have $4000 into that one, I know I could never sell it for that, but its completely rebuilt and painted. It will probably last another 76 years.
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We still use two H tractors- 1948 and a 1949 model for mowing and raking hay, as well as running an elevator for ear corn and grain. They are very handy for pulling a spike tooth drag as well.
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I have 4 of them. The SuperM is an 'everyday user'. It still plants all my corn and beans,Does a bit of everything.Has a 'quik tach'loader that is removed when it is time to farm.Also pulls the double rake.This one will stay forever.Granted,it doesn't work as hard as he used to,but still dependable vital part of my operation. I would be lost without him. A '45 M is dedicated to a cultivator,it is used to cultivate my rowcrops. the Super H pulls the sprayer,carries the front mount wheel rake/windrow turner,and pulls a single rake when the big double is not needed.the 'new' 400 is ready and waiting for its job. All have 3 points,and wide fronts.They all have their place and complement the bigger/newer ones.If a tractor lives here,it works for a living. No parade or show tractors here.
 
Our 1949 H Farmall is the smallest tractor we have on the farm. It probably gets a hundred hours a year in use. It has a 6 foot belly mount mower. When we fed cattle, and cracked shell corn to put into the silo, it was on the forage blower sending the cracked corn into the upright silo, in addition to putting time on the belly mount mower every year. I have another tractor of that vintage (another color/brand) which I use for raking hay in the summer months.
 
One of my Ms was getting 30 - 35 hours a year on the bush-hog, but since Im renting my property now it doesnt see but a couple hours a year, and most of that is washing the barn dirt off of it. My other M is a retired show tractor, since I dont take it to shows any more. Ill be pulling it out this weekend. Only one of my tractors sees regualr duty, and thats my 154 LoBoy. It gets uses every other week for a couple of hours or so mowing the ditches in the summer.
 
Used my M to plant 100 acres of beans last year. 12V, wide front, fenders, new rubber, power steering, and radio. Pulled a 5100 soybean special. Big fun. I gotta say, however, I quit using it to bush hog. If you got jarred of the seat for whatever reason, I don't think you'd live to tell about it.
 
I probably use my H and several Ms more than the larger and newer tractors I have. I use them for planting, raking hay, pulling silage wagons, etc. They are among the finest utility tractors ever built, and so reliable.
 
I use both of my H's and my M all the time.

One H has a loader on it, and the other two are just used where they are needed.
 
I would like a dollar for every scoop of snow I scooped with My H and Stanhoist trip bucket loader -- 39years that was My snow removal tool-- Up graded to a 544 utility with a IH industrial loader -- with a custom built 7 foot bucket -- what an improvement -- Roy
 
My SuperM is the biggest tractor on my farm! ;)
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Mowing hay with International 990 haybine

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Seeding with my AWESOME JD GrainDrill

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Pulling disc harrow.

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And picking up chicks too! ;)
 
i dont have an H or an M but I have a couple F20’s and use my 38’ all the time for yard work, and grading gravel driveway. I built a three point for it and it works awesome.
 
I still have three gas tractors I use around here, but the M is the most regular use. I use it to grind feed every 10days to couple of weeks. My grinder doesn?t have the auger saddle extension so it has to be on an open tractor - that leaves either it or the 4020. I like to use the M because the tricycle front and power steering makes placing the grinder hopper an easy task for one person. It uses a good bit of gas but I love to hear her working that grinder. When I first started farming it was my loader tractor and was used everyday to feed, but now she just does this and pulls the four row sweet corn planter once a year. It?s also fun because the rear tires are a little big and when I travel between farms to get to grain bins she really flies down the road. She?s quite a jackrabbit.
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Ditto on my MD and a 7' trip-bucket Freeman loader -- it's moved a heckuva lot of snow over the last 20 years here in Northern Indiana......
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