Re: A Few Questions

Posted by CNKS on February 25, 2006 at 10:00:11 from (204.249.178.138):

In Reply to: A Few Questions posted by Mark on February 25, 2006 at 09:12:46:

I don't consider it ugly, my dad had two of them for cultivating vegetables when I was a kid. I only got to drive them for one summer when I was 12, then the bank repocessed them and he had to start over (in spite of all the talk about farmers going broke, it is nothing new). The B was classed as a two row cultivating tractor, the A/Super A was a one row. It was good for it's intended purpose. The C replaced it, because of the WWII it was replaced a little later than intended. Some people say it should have not been manufactured, perhaps the C and A should have been manufactured, not the B. This is my speculation, but IH at that time was leaning toward smaller tractors, perhaps they thought a C like tractor appeared too big, although the engine is the same. The tractor market at that time was a little confusing. As to my dad's B's, for what he used them for, an A would have probably done the same thing. He bought the first B sold in my home county, probably because the dealer had a B and not an A. The B will turn shorter than the A, an advantage in our small fields. He liked it and bought a second one 4-5 years later. He never owned a C but did have two H's. In those days there was no mounted implement shared between tractors. If you had an A and B, you needed implements for both -- the C did not change that. In more modern times -- I own a 460 Hi Utility, I don't understand why it was made -- likely higher clearance for tobacco, etc. But there is a 460 row crop, with the same or more clearance, particularly with a NF. If you didn't want to cuiltivate, etc, there was the low profile 460 utility. Only advantage I can imagine is that the wfe on the 460 Hi Utility allows it to be shorter and have a shorter turning radius than the row crop WFE, but not the NF. There were simply too many models, likley one of many reasons IH is no longer with us.

Replies:

• Re: A Few Questions Mark 10:12:54 02/25/06 (1)
  • Re: A Few Questions CNKS 12:28:03 02/25/06 (0)

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