Posted by ScottyHOMEy on September 24, 2009 at 07:26:37 from (70.105.241.42):
In Reply to: super H serial # posted by Don in Mn. on September 24, 2009 at 06:32:22:
I'd be guided by the serial number for production date. THe tractor may have been modified over the years.
See what you can find for date casting codes on it. A tractor built late in '53 should show Ys for the year. The same would be true of one built very early in '54, if you find most of your casting dates to be in the last two or three months of '53. (That's one argument for using the serial number to date it.)
If you find any Zs, you'll know that that part was cast in '54. What you still won't know is if that part was swapped on later or the tractor was actually put together in '54. (Another argument in favor of the serial number.)
The way IH did things, one shouldn't be surprised if there was some overlapping of parts/features during the transition from Stage I to Stage II Super Hs. Then there is the confusion of IH's records which, in that era, ran from November 1 to October 31 leaving us, fifty-some years later, to wonder if the tables we rely on for dating by serial number aren't a little like the auto manufacturers turning out cars in August and calling them the next year's model.
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