Farmall letter series

plow hand · Sep 25, 2010

I've seen several Farmall tractors for sale. Was anything printed on the letter sticker other than if it was a Super series tractor? just curious, Thanks.

Ken Ind. · Sep 25, 2010

Yes , if it was an v for vegetable or i for industrial other than that there was only the super or ta, Kenny

Farmallhal · Sep 25, 2010

The word "CULTIVISION" was used also at some time later on the smaller offset style tractor Farmall A and not sure if it got on the B or not, Hal.

Bkpigs · Sep 25, 2010

I believe the V was for high clearance. Majority of these may have been used in vegetable farms but I don"t think that is what it stood for.

rustyfarmall · Sep 25, 2010

(quoted from post at 06:10:15 09/25/10) I believe the V was for high clearance. Majority of these may have been used in vegetable farms but I don"t think that is what it stood for.

Yes, the "V" did stand for "vegetable".

Harold H · Sep 25, 2010

On the smaller Farmall's V may have stood for "vegatable" but on the larger Farmalls V stood for "High clearance" and that is the way all of the V tractors were described by IHC. The most common crop use for high clear larger tractors was sugar cane. The AV which was a smaller high clear tractor was mostly used in vegatables. Other letters used by IHC during the letter series era: O=orchard, OS=special orchard, W=wheel, T=track, R=rice field special, V=high clear, I=industrial, TA=torque amphlifier, D=diesel. LPG=lp gas,

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CNKS · Sep 25, 2010

"I" was never used as a decal for the industrial notation. International was on the grill and hood.

John M · Sep 25, 2010

It was on the I-4.

CNKS · Sep 25, 2010

That is correct, I was thinking more of those that call an International A an "AI" etc. You can buy decals that say that, but they never came from the factory that way. Anyway, the original question referred to Farmall, not the standard or International version of the standard tractors.

John M · Sep 25, 2010

True!

plow hand · Sep 25, 2010

Thanks for all your input.I have seen a lot of plain Jane H's and M's for sale and they were listed that way,they had something written above the letters. I think they must have found a good deal on super letter stickers..

ScottyHOMeY · Sep 26, 2010

Oh, yeah! Not uncommon. Dependin' on who was involved, the mis-labeling can be chalked up to macho tendencies, lack of scruples, inexperience . . .

Twenty-some years ago, my grand-dad gave up farming in a large way, but kept his BN for the chores he still had. As a gift, my uncle had a high-school shop go through the motor and repaint her. I followed up on their good work on the motor (pity the guy who had it for the few years it was out of the family after Grandpa died let the top end of the motor fill with water -- another story).

I can stil remember, though, that it came back from the high-school shop with "C" decals on the hood, because they couldn't find BN decals, but thought it didn't look right with nothing there!

Nowadays, she's back in service with "BN Cultivision" circles back on her like she started out with.

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