Re: Farmall H versus John Deere B

Posted by Steve - IN on May 22, 2003 at 05:46:47 from (12.222.17.59):

In Reply to: Farmall H versus John Deere B posted by Tim Kincaid on May 22, 2003 at 02:02:23:

Tim, There might be other reasons you haven't considered. I've got a few memories of exactly what you're talking about -- my Grand Dad worked at the International Harvester plant in Indy during the war and farmed nights and weekends while Uncle Sugar had my Dad flying machines made by Boeing.

Hard to keep 'em down on the farm once they've cruised at 30,000 ft., so Dad never farmed as anything more than a hobby or to help his Dad after that; but my Grand Dad bought more land and a brand new Internationl Harvester H with the money he'd saved from that IH factory job during the war.

That H was the first tractor I learned on, but it could only pull a 2 bottom plow. He needed something bigger, as he'd tripled the size of his farm. Also, somewhere along the way he'd been slighted somehow by the IH dealer, had some good implements made by JD and the JD dealer was closer than the IH dealer. You guessed it, the tractor he got to pull a 3 bottom wasn't an M, it was green. But as I remember it when that shiney, new green popping tractor came home a lot of attention centered on that big seat. Go park your aged backside on a Farmall H for 8 hours, then next day switch to a JD pedastal seat with the 3 inch cushion, arm rests and a cushioned backrest. Now that I'm older than Grand Dad was then, and as the owner of a Farmall H and a JD, I know that on the all important sore butt decision scale, he got it right.

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