H Can It Do It

Gene Stevens · Apr 2, 2009

I picked up a 10' drag disk that turned out to be a 12'. My ferguson TO 20 will pull it in 1st but just bearley. Will the H do the Job when I get it goining?

Gene

davejoe · Apr 2, 2009

If the disc is doing anything at all (cutting in) the H will not even move it. If it does pull it you will not get enough speed to do much. A good 8' is about right for an H. Dave

Gene Stevens · Apr 2, 2009

I had hoped the H had a little more HP (more than the 26 for the Fergie) and with the longer wheel base it would be able. Looks like I need a smaller drag disk.

Thanks

Gene

Anonymous-0 · Apr 2, 2009

not a chance,as davejoe says. or bigger tractor!

Janicholson · Apr 3, 2009

You might be able to trade it even for the 8' disk the H will pull. A ad in the paper might work, or see your local implement dealers, the 12 would be much more valuable to them, than a smaller disk they might have on the lot! JimN

Steven f/AZ · Apr 3, 2009

I pull a 12' drag type disc with my H - cuts about 3" deep in 3rd gear. I can do about 5" deep in 2nd - anything more than that and it just spins. It is deep enough to work the weeds down in our tree rows, but I need to go over it a couple of times to do any good. For real farming and productivity - no, the H is not big enough.

Here's my H pulling a 12' field cultivator with 12" sweeps on it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOsJRm76748

Farmall Ed · Apr 3, 2009

The video's are nice, I really enjoyed them.Thanks for sharing them. Ed

Anonymous-0 · Apr 3, 2009

Amazing how those little Fergies could almost pull what an H could. Is this a single or dual disk. We pulled a single 11 ft disk on our TO-20 in 2 or 3rd gear easily. Double disk too much. 8ft double disk sounds right.

oppie_25 · Apr 7, 2009

What kind of sickle mower do you have on there?

Steven f/AZ · Apr 7, 2009

(quoted from post at 07:57:38 04/07/09) What kind of sickle mower do you have on there?

IH 1110 balanced-head.

LenNH · Apr 8, 2009

When my father replaced his 10-20 with an H, we used the old 7" double-disk harrow that had come with the 10-20. In fresh-plowed ground, the H would pull that disk in second gear only. In corn stubble, it would probably pull faster, but sometimes that was hard on the old machines that were meant to be pulled at 3 mph. One thing is very obvious about the original H: it is not a torquey machine. The motor is small and gets its h.p. from speed. Like a little guy peddling a bike uphill: gear down, peddle like the devil, get there. Big guy, strong legs, peddles slowly in a higher gear, gets the same results. The old IHC tractors (F-20, 10-20, etc.) got their h.p. at slow speeds with big displacement. Tons of torque, not all that much h.p. In heavy going, they just dug in like a mad bull. The H would just die down when a big overload occurred. I"ve spent hundreds of hours on the oldies and on two Hs. The H is a wonderful tractor to drive, from the comfort standpoint, but it sure doesn"t have the torque of the older gals.

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