My 2-cents worth, reduced by inflation: The F-12 my father bought new was used just about every day for probably 15 years, and never gave any problems, except for maybe 1 fuel-pump diaphragm splitting. All fuel pumps back then had rubber diaphragms, and eventually they all developed leaks. Can't blame IH for that. My father was an almost-no-maintenance man and I was too young at the beginning to know any better. Still, the tractor did all kinds of hard work, including pulling a 7-foot double-disk harrow originally bought for a 10-20. I believe the F-12 was overbuilt in some ways, esp. behind the engine--the tranny was more like something out of the 20s than later models like the H, which had slimmer-looking gears (but maybe made with newer and stronger materials--I don't really know). It's true the F-12 wasn't terribly comfortable--engineers didn't seem to think much about this in the late 20s and early 30s--but it was, in my opinion, a great tractor. Really, it was one of the first tractors for small farms, and there wasn't much it wouldn't do, what with all the machines you could attach to it.
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Today's Featured Article - Tractor Traction - by Chris Pratt. Our first bout with traction problems came when cultivatin with our Massey-Harris Pony. Up till then, this tractor had been running a corn grinder and pulling a trailer. It had new unfilled rear tires and no wheel weights. The garden was already sprouting when we hooked up the mid-mount shovel cultivators to the Pony. The seed bed was soft enough that the rear end would spin and slowly work its way to the downhill side of the gardens slight incline. From this, we learned our lesson sinc
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