Got the H home

cwcuk · Feb 7, 2019

The old H I brought got home today, driven by the guy I got if off about 3 miles away.
So far all I have done is take the tin off it and took a plug out to see how she was burning
They is a few bolts missing out off the rad cowl
the shutters on the rad move ok and are in good order but won't work with the lever.
So next I will drop the oil pan off and clean it all up and the pump screen, will update with pics as and when
David

Ellis Kinney · Feb 7, 2019

That is a nice looking tractor. It has the old one gallon tank on it. I have also never seen one with the radiator shutters. Ellis

lfnel · Feb 7, 2019

I grew up green but sure can appreciate any old honest piece if hardware thie this one. That's a nice tractor. As with the green ones, does the one smaller fuel tank indicate that it's a distillate, tractor fuel, burner? Shutters are a hint too!

Oregon Tractor Jack · Feb 7, 2019

That would be a distillate due to the gas starting tank. The shutters I believe were standard on the the distillate engines. The shutters can be found on other tractors and may have been an option. I have an H that has the high altitude piston option that has always been a gas tractor that has the shutters. It's always cool to keep as much of the original stuff on a tractor as possible.

OTJ

cwcuk · Feb 8, 2019

The serial number says she is a kerosene tractor in the UK not sure we ever had distillate tbh most were run on TVO a mix of kerosene and petrol. they always had 2 tanks and were started on petrol

On our farm at the beginning of WW2 my late Farther brought a new T6 crawler one of the 1st 2 in the uk he even went to pick it up from Southhampton Docks
I remember when I was a lad driving it for days on end and starting it on petrol then when the manifold got hot you turned her over to Kerosene. Also if you were going to stop it and she was going to get cold you would swap it back to petrol before you did stop it or it would not start on kerosene

MJ in the UK · Feb 8, 2019

Hi Dave, nice to see you have got the tractor home. The original magneto would have
been a IH H4 one but I have not got a spare one at the moment but I may be able to
find you one. AS you are not far from me I would like to come over and look at it
somtime, my daytime phone number is 01522 778705 Michael Hart. ,

cwcuk · Feb 10, 2019

(quoted from post at 04:38:17 02/08/19) Hi Dave, nice to see you have got the tractor home. The original magneto would have
been a IH H4 one but I have not got a spare one at the moment but I may be able to
find you one. AS you are not far from me I would like to come over and look at it
somtime, my daytime phone number is 01522 778705 Michael Hart. ,

Michael I will give you a call this coming week
David

JohnV2000 · Feb 11, 2019

Wow that tractor is making me very eager to get my Farmall H home! Hopefully thats next weekend!

SadFarmall · Feb 12, 2019

The magneto may be a correct option for UK delivered tractors. AOS6 tractors in Australia had either the IHC H4 magneto or a Lucas equivalent. It depended on how much 'local' content was required by government at the time. Similiarly Farmall H tractors in Australia sometimes had 28" rear wheels and Farmall M got 32" wheel with 13.5-32 tyres…
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