A farmall road speed

[Fancy Farm]

What is the top road speed of a A farmall?

 

[ScottyHOMeY]

About 9-1/2 mph.

 

[the tractor vet]

Ya could go drag racing in a school zone and not get a ticket.

 

[Anonymous-0]

Got 11 on pavement.

 

[jonnny2006]

I like the A's. i run mine on e85

 

[Hoss In ME]

Seen a JCB backhoe do 94mph in 1/4 mile! Hoss

 

[Anonymous-0]

My Dads stock BN will run 14mph with 11.2x24's on the back. My Super A will run 22mph at 2000RPM but I Did a little work to the Governor.
Shaggy

 

[Bob Kerr]

I checked speed on my M with a GPS unit. most of them show MPH and are very accurate down to the tenth of a mile per hour. If you don"t have one see if you can borrow one from somebody. The M did 15. I was suprised it was that slow! My 23 Olds grain truck got up to 27MPH and I was suprised it was that fast! The next "speed" trials will be on the H and F-12.

 

[LenNH]

IHC sales lit. gives 10 mph at 1400 rpm. It is true you won't get any speeding tickets, but it is also true that this is a very useful speed around a farm and especially on farm trails and unpaved country roads. Throttled back a bit, you still have enough torque to pull a loaded wagon on a rough road. The H and M were originally listed at 15-5/8 and 16-1/4 at full-load, full-throttle setting. Too fast for trails and rough gravel roads, and throttled-back, there isn"t a lot of torque to let you tootle along with a loaded wagon on such roads at say 7 mph. The IHC brochure for the H and M shows minimum speeds in fifth gear as 9-1/2 for the H and 10-5/8 for the M, which is another way of saying that much below those speeds, the engine is going to be running at pretty close to idle. The sales brochure I have doesn"t specify tire sizes. Speeds would vary just a little depending on tires. Presume some of the "fatter" tires people use today might raise the speeds a bit.
I have very vivid memories of trying to pull loaded wagons over gravel roads in fourth gear, roaring wide-open at just under 6 mph because the H would not pull a load at that speed in fifth gear. John Deere and Oliver had two road speeds. Their fifth speed was somewhere around 8 mph, as I recall, and that would have allowed a comfortable speed with plenty of torque to handle the load.

 

[Steven f/AZ]

I've had mine up to an eye-watering 12 miles per hour!

 

[Fancy Farm]

I am going to have a small tractor drive and the A I have goes about the minimum speed I would like to maintain.
Thanks for your help.

 

[charles todd]

My Farmall 504 D has the codes S-X-Y and I know that one of them is high speed low and reverse. The tractormeter shows 22 as WOT with 12.?x38's. I have 13.8x38's on it and when you let'er rip in 5th TA then slam it to 5th direct is lugs down a bit. But once is winds up 5th, hold on. It scares the SH** :shock: out of me with the worn tie rod ends! The only tractor faster than this F504D that I have ever driven was a JD 401 (Industrial). Dont panic, it was a yellow JD

Charles

 

[Bob Kerr]

Ok, Road tested the H yesterday and with the "ears pinned back" the H ran 18 mph in 5th. 14 was a nice cruising speed. it also ran 2 mph in 1st at full throttle.