826 seat color

I just purchased an 826 tractor. My friend has a picture of his back in 1970 when he purchased it. His has a 3 piece seat and is white. The tractor that I purchased has a black 3 piece seat. The owner (which is the original owner) says that he has never replaced the seat. Does anyone have a sales brochure of an 826 that shows the seat. Also tractor data says 18.4x34 for the rear tires. This tractor has 16.9x38. Did they offer other sizes back then? Thanks for the help. Ed
 
Interesting question, my 806 came with a Black and White, it's still on there, the only thing i will say it made u sweat, but i have a stand up cab, it helped a little !
 
I think IH used different colors of seats.Black or white or any combination. Whomever was the cheapest bidder got the job of supplying parts.Maybe the seat supplier ran out of white so they used all black?.I recently heard an interesting story.The line workers were paid to build tractors! They had a quota to meet.If they met it they got a bonus.So as a tractor went down the line,workers used what was there.So be it tires,front ends,seats,three points,PtOs?..the list goes on....So unless a tractor was specifically ordered with certain options,it could have come off the line in any way.So any 10(ormore) tractors could have the possibility of being all a bit different.This was told to me by an old guy who worked at IH in the 60s.He told me of a tractor that only had a hand throttle,a few had no PTO or hitches. I have no reason to doubt him. He also laughs when someone claims or says "factory correct" or "factory perfect" because there is no such thing.
 
As far as this old FARMALL assembly worker telling you this fairy tale, He may have told you this story but it's ALL BS. Every tractor had a build sheet on it, with tractor serial number and branch and region order number, also had the ordering dealer's name & address, and the name of the person who ordered the tractor and his phone number unless it was a stock order for inventory. Every option was listed on that build sheet, via a 4 digit option code, there would also be a part number of the major part of that option, things like gas or diesel engine, TA or less TA, Cat 1 or 2 3-pt, 1 or 2 sets of remotes, and FARMALL could build HUNDREDS of variations with just tires alone. You could up-size, down-size, R-1, R-2-0, duals with matching brand size & ply to the tractor, or just bare duals, no tires. Every few stations on the lines, start & finish lines an inspector signed off that the right parts for the ordered options were on the tractor. FARMALL was like Burger-King, they built it YOUR WAY, and enough pairs of eyes looked at it before it shipped that it should have been what was ordered.
I worked at FARMALL for 5 years, fall 1976 to winter 1981, last three years in Material Scheduling, the 12-13 of us in that dept responsible for getting ALL the purchased parts into the plant, finished parts for assembly and raw castings, forgings, steel, etc for machining. We had an approved supplier, we bought stuff on annual blanket pot's and brought parts in daily, weekly, monthly as required. Seats during the 826 production time came from SEARS MANUFACTURING in Davenport. The3x88/5x88 series used a seat from Germany, name escapes me right now.
Your friend, buddy, whatever told you a fairy tale. I'm actually sorry you posted that, somebody will believe that BS, a lot of the new "REVOLUTIONARY" manufacturing methods small companies started using in the 2010's were being used in the 1960's at FARMALL. We had manufacturing cells, single employee running up to 4 machines, NC controlled lathes to turn gear blanks, heck, I had parts in 1979 I turned inventory about 350 times a year, that's about two turns per day, today even the automotive "JIT" plants with computerized reports to suppliers can't turn inventory that fast. I had a FAX machine right next to my desk ten years before most small companies owned one. I had a computer terminal by my desk that I could look at the branch & region order for a tractor, or I could send an e-mail to any other employee in the entire corporation, or I could check the entire corporation for inventory on ANY IH part number regardless of what product line, ag, truck, engines, construction, Solar. About 1979 IH had their own satellite in orbit for world-wide phone communications. Each employee had their own 5 or 6 digit I'd number, we could call from anywhere in the world to any IH phone number. Yep, sounds like a little 2-BIT company that didn't know what they were doing!
 
I would love to learn more about International having their own sattelite in orbit around 1979 for communications.

I quickly glanced over NASA history 1979-1984 and found the following mention of IH (on page 240), but nothing on a sattelite (I am not saying I doubt you, but would love to see more info on this).:

"NASA announced development of a new lightweight flame-resistant material subject only to charring even at 800F (426C): polyimide resilient foam, a product of International Harvester s solar division at San Diego, under contract to JSC. Use of the new foam, available next year, would reduce hazards for buses, trains, and automobiles as well as planes."

https://history.nasa.gov/AAchronologies/1979-1984.pdf
 
I don't doubt anything you say either,but got to tell my uncle Herman bought a new H off the dealers lot in 1951, in about the late 60's the fan belt went bad, so they went to town and bought one,Well came home with the wrong belt, make a long story short It had a Narrow belt like a 113 or 123, My cousin Roger still has the tractor,it's serial number 377274x1 But we had a sharp parts man [Leo] at the time he fixed them up with the right one.
 
WAYYY off the original topic but so is everybody else. I have an IH tractor with a STAMPED part number which has parts which do not match ANY IH part diagram .And no, it is not aftermarket as the stamped part number matches the IH part number but the internal components are different than all diagrams and NO ONE at I H has been able to explain it . It is a hydraulic pump . I love I H but there are some mysteries associated with these 50 plus year old tractors .
 
Ok, interesting, but out old parts man was the sharpest IH man i ever knew,like some of the other's here, but he taught me a lot !
 
My 826 has the original seat bottom on it and it's all white. I want to think the seat back was black and white. I'll have to check my literature. BTW my 826 has 16.9 by 38 spinouts from the factory.
 
Beware of the farm supply store seats. The bottom cushion used to be backed with wood not metal. Not sure if that's still the case.

Biggest issue is with the metal brackets that hold the three sections together. They're poor quality, and bend like nothing.

It pays to go with a better quality seat.
 
IH did not build hydraulic pumps for equipment. They were out sourced from Cessna or Thompson. It would certainly be possible that Cessna or Thompson stamped an IH number on the outside of the pump body for IH. Can you tell me what is the number stamped on that pump? I'd like to do some research on it.
 

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