W-4, W-6, W-9

There is no row-crop equivalent to the W-9.

The W-9 was for the big time operators out in the midwest where they would farm entire sections (640 acres) at a time.

In reality, most row crop farms thought the M was too big in the early 1940's. If you bought an M you were considered crazy. A row crop the size of the W-9 would surely have flopped.
 
I remember growing up in south central So Dak and we had a Farmall H and Super H. Our neighbor was a "big" wheat farmer (I suppose he farmed 1000 acres). He had a W-9 and I thought that was such a big tractor. I think he pulled a big one-way disk. My dad farmed about 500 acres with the two H's, you just spent a lot of time on the tractor. Roger
 
There are several "Gaps" in the IHC line:
No W-20
No F-40
No row-crop version of the W-9.

If they had continued the WD-40 and WD-9, they may have been able to keep up with John Deere.
 
they where way ahead of john deere by 15 years. ihc had the first diesel tractor motor ready in 1934. john deere did not have one till 1949, with the model R. it was the model D and the row crop G that was their big tractor. the 40's would work circles around those 2 piston slappers.
ihc started loosing ground with the 60 series tractors.
there was no reason to have big row crop tractors to work open fields, as that was the wk40, wd40, w9, wd9, super wd9, 600, 650, and 660"s job.
 
The G was to compete with the F-30. The D hp wise was between a W-30 and W-40. No doubt a 40 would outwork a D but IH sold about 10,000 W40s and JD sold over 26,000 Ds during that same time period. JD sort of lost the battle but won the war.
 
The downfall of IHC-Farmall wasn't their product line, it was management and union. Though I pretty much bleed green, I would have to concede that during their hay-days, IHC's Farmall line of tractors was in most ways superior to Deere's. Dad had the same stationary engine on an irrigation well in the early 50's as was used in the W-9 tractor. Wasn't there a crawler that used that engine too? I think the engine carried a U-9 label. It was a big 4-banger, 55 hp as I recall, and even burned tractor fuel - lots of it. It was a red-hot, fire-belching dragon after dark.
 
(quoted from post at 04:46:52 03/01/14) ... Dad had the same stationary engine on an irrigation well in the early 50's as was used in the W-9 tractor. Wasn't there a crawler that used that engine too? I think the engine carried a U-9 label. It was a big 4-banger, 55 hp as I recall, and even burned tractor fuel - lots of it. It was a red-hot, fire-belching dragon after dark.

Yes, the T-9 was the crawler.
 
Someone mentioned the R John Deere. I remember the first one I had ever seen in 1955. Never seen such a massive piece of iron. My Dad say nobody ever needed that large of a tractor. He & I farmed 640 acres with JD B and IH SC. That was JD's most powerful tractor at the time. Today, every tractor JD makes in the US is more powerful than that R. After listening to it run for a few minutes my ears pounded the rest of the day.
 
yes you are correct. W-4 = H, W-6 = M, they even had the same engines in them, and the W-9 was bigger yet with no simular tractor size made for it in the row-crop series. Not really familiar with the W-9 but I think it was 6 cylinder with the same bore and stroke as the W-6 which was only 4 cylinder. wouldn't swear to that comparison though. As for the other JD views below, my opinion is JD hung on to that 2 banger design way to long. Thats why IHC prevailed untill JD ditched that idea. And after they did, IHC exsperienced problems of there own. JD then prevailed. I think both case IH and JD both make quality equipment in modern day. My 2 cents.
 
The older W40 was powered by a 6 cylinder truck engine. Its replacement was the W9.

The W9 was powered by a 4 cylinder engine. The bore was 4.4" and the stroke was 5.5" resulting in a displacement of 335 cubic inches. 4.5" oversize sleeves and pistons were available to increase the engine size to 350 CID.
 

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