50's farmall second seat...

mrfikser

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Okay, I am reaching way-way back here.. back in the 80s I had a friend that had a 50-something farmall tractor, not sure of the model, probably a A-B-C, I don't think it was as big as as a M ...Anyway it had a second seat mounted onto the left axel housing and facing the operator , I believe it was designed for a second person to fill/control a seed hopper (behind the main operator) etc.. from what I remember the seat was mounted on a large "C" shaped spring, which looked kind of like a large tine off of a drag behind rake (but bigger and wider). the seat itself looked like a regular farmall metal seat... Also, this description is from ancient memory and may not be entirely accurate..
My question to you all is...Has anyone here seen anything like this, was it available to buy etc...
 
It was proabley home made, or black smith made, i am not aware of any company made, and sold that type of seat!!!
 

I agree with Fastfarmall. Most anything like that was homemade. However, it was most likely mounted on a Farmall B. The Farmall B had a lot of room left of the operator.
 
(quoted from post at 19:59:09 09/13/22)
I agree with Fastfarmall. Most anything like that was homemade. However, it was most likely mounted on a Farmall B. The Farmall B had a lot of room left of the operator.

thanks for the input
 
We had an IH #5 endgate seeder, slid into the guides for the back endgate on our Economy brand flare box
wagon. I drove the tractor, at first a '39 H later a '54 Super H, we could sow and disk in 80 acres easily in
a day. We disked 8 rows of old corn stalks, left one row standing, disked another 8. The standing row was my
guide row to drive the seeder wagon. Normally ran 5+/- mph, neighbor started disking them in as soon as we
were half way across the field. Then We peg tooth harrowed the fields to make them as smooth as we could, we
used 20 acres for hay, and 20 acres for hog pasture, Neighbor did the same with his 40 acres.
We always bought good grass seed, 100% alfalfa in later years, some years used bin-run oats, other years
used cleaned and certified seed oats. We could haul close to 80 bushel in the seeder wagon, or at least
enough to seed all 40 acres.
Always seemed to me drilling in oats was a lot more work plus slower.
 
(quoted from post at 14:18:12 09/14/22) We had an IH #5 endgate seeder, slid into the guides for the back endgate on our Economy brand flare box
wagon. I drove the tractor, at first a '39 H later a '54 Super H, we could sow and disk in 80 acres easily in
a day. We disked 8 rows of old corn stalks, left one row standing, disked another 8. The standing row was my
guide row to drive the seeder wagon. Normally ran 5+/- mph, neighbor started disking them in as soon as we
were half way across the field. Then We peg tooth harrowed the fields to make them as smooth as we could, we
used 20 acres for hay, and 20 acres for hog pasture, Neighbor did the same with his 40 acres.
We always bought good grass seed, 100% alfalfa in later years, some years used bin-run oats, other years
used cleaned and certified seed oats. We could haul close to 80 bushel in the seeder wagon, or at least
enough to seed all 40 acres.
Always seemed to me drilling in oats was a lot more work plus slower.

What parts of the country are you.
 
Just a thought on the seat question. It could have been a modified horse drawn manure spreader seat, see picture.


mvphoto97286.jpg
 
(quoted from post at 15:12:49 09/16/22) Just a thought on the seat question. It could have been a modified horse drawn manure spreader seat, see picture.


mvphoto97286.jpg

Yes, that looks like what I remember...I guess now I need to look for manure spreader parts..thanks..
 

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