Super series

Charlie M

Well-known Member
In today's old tractor world is there any more interest in the supers than the regular lettered tractors. Seems like every basket case Super C I've seen went for about twice what is should have and some of us
were dumb enough to pay the money. I know the Super MTA's are tractors some guys want. Just curious.
 
only thing I would think is supers have a few improvements and few more h.p. before the next model came out. also fewer supers were made than regular model.
 
One reason the A,B,C,and H don't bring as much as the super series is because the super series are newer tractors, most of which were made in the early 50"s. The others were made from the late 30's through the 40's. IMO
 
Auction prices are such that early Supers don't carry a premium unlike the series 2's. Super MTA gas and diesel carry their own premium in price. I am not old but hope I go on a while so I can take advantage of fading 1950's tractor prices. Anyways, plain jane series 1 super H's are just under 1,000 dollars and series 1 super M's are just a little more than that.
 
When Dad traded the '39 Farmall H for the stage 2 Super H spring of 1968 it was amazing how much time it saved in a day. The extra 7 hp helped but running back & forth to the hog pasture at 6-1/2 mph instead of 5 mph with loads of feed and water, hauling in loads of ear corn when picking, or oats when combining, or hay/straw when baking speeded up the whole job, no waiting for the next empty wagon or rack. Mowing hay with the Oliver sickle mower on the '39 H was a slow process, clearing a plugged sickle required clutching about 5-6 times, with the Super H with live hyd only twice. Plus mowing at 6-1/2 mph cut over an hour off mowing 20 acres of hay. We always ran the Knoedler burr mill feed grinder with the '51 M, one day I hounded Dad enough we hooked the '39 H up to it, It had been overhauled, ran O-K, I tossed two scoops of ear corn into the little aluminum Harvest Handler elevator and waited, first scoop full pulled the H way down, second scoop full dropped into the grinder and all of a sudden it was quiet. Without a word, DAD unhooked the PTO from the H, started it, pulled out of the crib, jumped on the M, it was coughing and sputtering, still warming up, hooked up the PTO and eased out the clutch, M cleared up and started the load that killed the H. Years later we did grind with the Super H, but it was absolutely ALL it wanted for load.
Only fault I can find with the Super H is it could use more hyd oil capacity, 6 quarts not really enough for a loader with hyd bucket. Lift-All on 300/350 had something over 3 gallons. Live PTO would have been nice for some jobs but I got them done with the transmission driven pto just fine anyhow. This was years before you could buy an over-running PTO shaft. I wouldn't complain if IH had put power steering on Super H's and Super M's. Dad had a Super M-TA for 4 years as his main fieldwork tractor. Was the tractor I first did any fieldwork with. Wish I knew it's serial number, would like to have it parked in my shop some day.
 
Supers have always brought a price premium over older models, nothing new about that.

Prices have been dropping on the plain models. You can get an average running H or M for $800-900 or less at most auctions. Real nice examples still bring good money, as do tractors with sentimental value.
 

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