Posted by LA in Wi. on March 10, 2008 at 07:44:41 from (71.98.10.56):
In Reply to: Vintage Pictures posted by MN Scott on March 09, 2008 at 15:16:20:
Great pictures. Since I"m an old dude, this brings back good memories of our Iowa farm in those years. Yes, that M or more commonly an H often was the first tractor many farmers bought (some never bought the F series...they weren"t ready for tractors yet). When that first tractor came, most of the horses were sold...but 2-4 of them were kept for raking, mowing, planting, etc. I"m guessing that MN operation had about 240 A, because an H was often bought for a 160 A farm. I recall a lot of pulled implements had a very long hitch (tongue), since that hitch had recently been used for the horses. While at my grandpa"s farm in about 1949, my one uncle was cultivating with their JD A (2 row) and the other was cultivating with a team of horses. The horses were resting and my uncle looked over the field and said to me "Yep, this field should yield up to 90 bushels per acre this year". This was black soil near Waterloo. I think that is why the H and M have such slow field gears, the implements were still designed for horse speeds. I"m astounded that IH put such a fast 5th gear in them, that must have been like flying in those days; was fun to watch the dirt fly high off the rears when we pulled out of a field and onto the gravel roads and shifted to 5th. Got cooled off, too! LA
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