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jim warehime 07-27-2012 17:41:27 174.252.114.91 Report to Moderator	Here is my 41h distillate tractor with mounted cultivators. Its almost complete just need heat shield and lights. Does anyone have the 5/8th inch diameter by 6inch long pointed pin that mounts the cultivator hoop to the axle housing? Thanks jim. [Reply]   [No Email]
W.Brehm 07-28-2012 16:57:51 71.38.189.121 Report to Moderator	Re: FARMALL H WITH CULTIVATORS PICS. in reply to jim warehime, 07-27-2012 17:41:27   My Grandpa Brehm's H is still in the immediate family, my Uncle has it. The 806 was bought by my Dad's first cousin, that isn't in immediate family. Myself and another uncle are interested in my Grandpa's H. [Reply]  [No Email]
The Red 07-28-2012 11:35:55 69.246.205.0 Report to Moderator	Re: FARMALL H WITH CULTIVATORS PICS. in reply to jim warehime, 07-27-2012 17:41:27   One last picture. This is Grandma driving the H right after they traded an F12 for it around 1944-1945. I never in my lifetime ever saw her on it. She was dangerously slow driving a car! [Reply]  [No Email]
Super-H-Mike 07-28-2012 10:19:50 76.164.147.69 Report to Moderator	Re: FARMALL H WITH CULTIVATORS PICS. in reply to jim warehime, 07-27-2012 17:41:27   I spent many hours aboard a set-up just like that. Funny, but I always enjoyed cultivating ! Peacefull and satisfying to kill those weeds! [Reply]  [No Email]
Jim Becker 07-28-2012 10:05:27 173.74.120.222 Report to Moderator	Re: H WITH CULTIVATORS. Sweeps, shovels, tines lay by. in reply to jim warehime, 07-27-2012 17:41:27   Maybe you didn't consider some of these a change? 1) Rear wheel weights added. 2) Pulley wheel installed. 3) Repainted, but not recently. 4) Later style decals. 5) Rear tire tread different. 6) Short pipe muffler replaced with later style. 7) New style safety fuel cap installed. 8) Gasoline starting tank removed. 9) Magneto replaced with battery ignition. [Reply]  [No Email]
The Red 07-28-2012 10:43:47 69.246.205.0 Report to Moderator	Re: H WITH CULTIVATORS. Sweeps, shovels, tines lay by. in reply to Jim Becker, 07-28-2012 10:05:27   Jim an excellent job! Only thing that cannot be seen is that Grandpa threw a rod through the block in the Fall of 1970 trying to haul 3 wagon loads of soybeans which was too much for that tractor. Local mechanic found a 1953 NOS block and head and did an overhaul at the time. Picture below was taken in 1968. My 19 year old cousin on the left, your's truly on the right with actual red hair at age 16. AC sickle bar mower on the back which constantly broke down. I think that is why Grandpa had me do the ditch mowing! [Reply]  [No Email]
LA in WI 07-28-2012 06:59:53 50.50.78.146 Report to Moderator	H WITH CULTIVATORS. Sweeps, shovels, tines lay by. in reply to jim warehime, 07-27-2012 17:41:27   JIM, I see your cultivator is equipped with what we Iowans called "tines" or "spring tines". I don"t recall seeing them much. THE RED"s cultivator has "sweeps" on the rear, maybe some on the front also but can"t see them. Our cultivators had "shovels" next to the shields, and they were for left or right, depending which side of the shovel was cut off so it wouldn"t throw too much dirt on the young corn plants. Sweeps were basically wide shovels, they had wider wings and were better at getting out more weeds. Of all the work done with tractors, that cultivating is the thing I miss the least! It was always so darn slow so you couldn"t get out of the dust and the weather was hot. "Laying by" cultivating was more fun....anybody know what that term means? I"m thinking if you are less than 50 yrs old, you might not have a clue. This was when fuel was most likely to leak out the tank due to the hard bouncing. LA in WI [Reply]  [No Email]
agpilot 07-28-2012 17:35:03 50.33.3.49 Report to Moderator	Re: H WITH CULTIVATORS. Sweeps, shovels, tines lay by. in reply to LA in WI, 07-28-2012 06:59:53   Hello The Red: "Laying by" might mean different things depending where you were in the corn country. In SW-MN it ment final pass through the corn fields and likely the 3ed time. We had a wide front on our S-MD and the corn was almost too high for getting bent under that wide front... but the boss said 'get-it-done' so I ignored the few that broke off.. The shields were off so running max in 3ed or not quite 3/4 throttle in 4th put quite a bit of dirt unto the rows in beans. I tended to enjoy doing all the field work when ever I was not in school. It kept me out of manure jobs around the livestock.. Good old days even turning that SMD with 4 row cultivator hung on the wide front with only my 'arm-strong' steering. It was good to look back at another 40 or 80 acres just cleaned up and showing fresh black dirt.. ..and that's from more then 50 year old memory images.. Some good things last a while.. By the way, I have a picture of our MD with a 2 row cultivator on it. Taken about 1945.. That MD was the 6th sold to the public.. I hope you get your grandfathers H some day.. ag ret. [Reply]  [No Email]
Lmack 07-28-2012 16:07:54 24.131.58.167 Report to Moderator	Re: H WITH CULTIVATORS. Sweeps, shovels, tines lay by. in reply to LA in WI, 07-28-2012 06:59:53   In the 50's my dad tried to get through the corn twice, once to cultivate and then to "Lay By". Sometimes the lay by trip was done with disk hiller's and some times with sweeps (4 per row) but always at above 4 mph and included side dressing with Ammonium Nitrate. Cultivating was slower until we got the flat sweeps in the 60's about the time I became chief corn cultivator. By that time the pointy heads were telling us to reduce cultivation so we eliminated the lay by trip and replaced the Ammonium Nitrate with gaseous Ammonia which was much easier. Our corn yields just about doubled along then. In those days we had only one way plows (right) so my dad started using a plowing method called "back furring" which involved starting in the center of a tract and plowing out to the edge using the harrow tracts as a guide so that even odd shaped fields could be plowed with no "water strip" from the corners or at intervals in the field. Plowing out those row hills (cross plowing in some cases) with the harrow to set up the back furring was a very rough job. I did away with the disk hillers to save my back. [Reply]  [No Email]
DK44H 07-28-2012 10:32:50 66.196.54.179 Report to Moderator	Re: H WITH CULTIVATORS. Sweeps, shovels, tines lay by. in reply to LA in WI, 07-28-2012 06:59:53   I'm 27. I know what that term means. Here it's also referred to as ridging or hilling. That's the fun job. The reason for laying by is the not so fun job.... [Reply]  [No Email]
The Red 07-28-2012 07:24:54 69.246.205.0 Report to Moderator	Re: H WITH CULTIVATORS. Sweeps, shovels, tines lay by. in reply to LA in WI, 07-28-2012 06:59:53   I was 7 years when Grandpa retired from active farming. He sold the cultivators and the milking equipment. Why he kept the AC pull combine is anyone's guess. It was never used again as far as I know. This is the same 1941H with a JD #5 sickle bar mower in 1998. It was used through about 2002 give or take. After that is was used to pull the honey wagon or run one of the grain bin augurs. [Reply]  [No Email]
The Red, TRIVIA TIME!! 07-28-2012 07:38:14 69.246.205.0 Report to Moderator	Re: H WITH CULTIVATORS. Sweeps, shovels, tines lay by. in reply to The Red, 07-28-2012 07:24:54   Allright on the tractor itself there are 6 differences between Grandpa's H in the 1950ish picture to the 1998 picture. Name them!! [Reply]  [No Email]
The Red 07-28-2012 06:10:22 69.246.205.0 Report to Moderator	Re: FARMALL H WITH CULTIVATORS PICS. in reply to jim warehime, 07-27-2012 17:41:27   This picture was taken around 60 years ago. This was my Grandpa on his 1941H with cultivators. I have the pictured mislabeled as 1942. That barn is still there since I own it. The H is in the vicinity and doesn't look any different than in this picture. [Reply]  [No Email]
tractor300 07-28-2012 06:35:44 74.36.163.136 Report to Moderator	Re: FARMALL H WITH CULTIVATORS PICS. in reply to The Red, 07-28-2012 06:10:22   Rode quite a few hours on one exactly like that, with dad when I was a kid. Tried it once bare footed, but didn't last long. That steel warms up real good. [Reply]  [No Email]
The Red 07-28-2012 07:27:13 69.246.205.0 Report to Moderator	Re: FARMALL H WITH CULTIVATORS PICS. in reply to tractor300, 07-28-2012 06:35:44   I bet with all that friction it would generate! Farm neighbor has one of those fancy 18 inch deep 5 shank strippers he pulls behind his huge John Deere. Those shoes get red hot! [Reply]  [No Email]
The Red 07-28-2012 06:15:46 69.246.205.0 Report to Moderator	Re: FARMALL H WITH CULTIVATORS PICS. in reply to The Red, 07-28-2012 06:10:22   For the restoration purist, note the original decal of "McCormick Deering Farmall" with no IH label to the left I believe. I haven't seen the tractor in several years so I don't recall. [Reply]  [No Email]
F-Dean 07-28-2012 04:39:57 166.249.133.216 Report to Moderator	Re: FARMALL H WITH CULTIVATORS PICS. in reply to jim warehime, 07-27-2012 17:41:27   Spent many hours/days on one of those! I believe that is a Model 238 cultivator. [Reply]  [No Email]
jim warehime 07-27-2012 18:54:20 174.252.118.37 Report to Moderator	Re: FARMALL H WITH CULTIVATORS PICS. in reply to jim warehime, 07-27-2012 17:41:27   I also need to find a good all fuel sediment bowl, the repro ones like steiner sell aren't made right the outlet port is on the wrong side... any help would be appreciated thanks jim. [Reply]  [No Email]
Dennis Stuhr 07-27-2012 22:05:30 24.116.229.54 Report to Moderator	Re: FARMALL H WITH CULTIVATORS PICS. in reply to jim warehime, 07-27-2012 18:54:20   I think I ordered one from OEM for my 1950 M. Dennis [Reply]  [No Email]
sflem849 07-27-2012 18:06:00 69.197.84.39 Report to Moderator	Re: FARMALL H WITH CULTIVATORS PICS. in reply to jim warehime, 07-27-2012 17:41:27   You are also missing the lid for the battery box. ;) No need to restore that one! It looks just fine right now. I will keep my eyes peeled for the pin. [Reply]  [No Email]
Vito 07-27-2012 17:55:22 75.130.91.54 Report to Moderator	Re: FARMALL H WITH CULTIVATORS PICS. in reply to jim warehime, 07-27-2012 17:41:27   Jim, That's a good looking tractor. Vito [Reply]  [No Email]