Re: 39 H

Posted by DR. EVIL on April 22, 2022 at 20:59:27 from (174.192.139.84):

In Reply to: 39 H posted by grandpa Love on April 22, 2022 at 18:46:15:

That '39 H looks a whole lot like the '39 H Dad traded on my '54 Super H sitting out in my shop. BUT OUR old '39 H had a white grill.
It ran O-K, was a low compression distillate head tractor, don't think it would have pulled the Deere 490 corn planter, Dad always planted with the '51 M back then, but first day the '54 Super H was on the farm it got hooked to the planter.
Our old '39 H had lots of wear lots of places, gear shift lever got out of the shift rails about once a month, kept a punch & hammer in the tool box to remove the shift lever and line up the rails in nuetral as needed. The belly pump had been modified to the 850 psi but it still struggled to lift really big loads of oats & corn, never mind getting them up to the crib. The Super H flew right up the hills to the crib even with huge loads in our new 150 bushel Oliver/Electric Wheel wagon with 2 feet of sideboards. One day it was a little greasy-muddy and I wasn't sure the SH was going to pull all the hills but it dug in and did it!
It's not hard to understand why IH sold 400,000 H's between '39 and '52 when you run one a bit. Our '39 H was narrow enough to fit down the narrow aisle of our hog house to haul the load or two of manure every years, rear wheels dished in and axles cut off, Dad bought a JD '40 B to pull the spreader for those 2-3 loads a year. I tried hauling manure a time or two, it was slow and crude, even less power and Traction than the '39 H, no radio possible on the B, Armstrong start, no generator & battery. It finally sat for years at a time and never ran. It may have been better than a team of horses but I really think I would have taken the Horses over the B. And the H by far over the horses.

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