Farmall H “Special “

[SGTTK86]

What is a Farmall H Special?

 

[Absent Minded Farmer]

Sounds like a fallacy on four tires. Looks like someone's custom job, so I would assume that's what it refers to.

Mike

 

[used red MN]

It’s just a Farmall H that someone customized and painted to their apparent liking. The IH red and white paint schemes were introduced on the x50 series in 1956 and was continued through 1981 on the x86 series. Having the original 4 cylinder and adding the double exhaust to me is a detraction, but to each his own. I guess I will give it credit that it is not just another old fixed up H.

 

[SGTTK86]

That’s what I thought… thanks for the reply

 

[504]

But why would you do all of that work and not put the lower grill in

 

[Goose]

I was at an auction once where they had a "Super H TA". It even had authentic looking decals.

The only thing was, IH never made one. The only way it could have come about would be to mate the rear end from a 350 with a TA to the front of a regular H and have the decals custom made.

 

[used red MN]

The only way it could have come about would be to mate the rear end from a 350 with a TA to the front of a regular H

A 300 with a TA works as well, not that I am a proponent of such foolery.

 

[Koolaid]

Maybe the special part is the smile it put on that kid in the seat!

 

[flying belgian]

But why would you do all of that work and not put the lower grill in

Because its sitting on the dirt floor in the back of Grandpa's shed where it's been laying for the last 50 years. Nobody remembers what happened to it.

 

[Janicholson]

Welcome SGT to YT forums and PartsASAP. To a passing car it looks different, and that is about all we can see for "special" Jim

 

[560Dennis]

I like it. Does it have the special hemi head?

 

[caterpillar guy]

the only thing special is the butcher job of the hood to make that ridiculous dual exhaust and the paint scheme on it. The paint if it had been white instead of a cream color would have looked pretty nice for a change of color to it. But just an H. Why does it seem everybody has to have the wheels dished out then slid all the way in on the axles? Why not just dish them in and slide them out so they fit in 30 inch rows. Takes less shed space and the wives tale of tipping over is pretty much silly unless you try driving on 45 degree slopes or more. They also load easier with no issues. Ours is set for 60 inch centers to fit 30 inch rows and saves a lot of shed space like that. Our MD is also.

 

[BarnyardEngineering]

I was at an auction once where they had a "Super H TA". It even had authentic looking decals.

The only thing was, IH never made one. The only way it could have come about would be to mate the rear end from a 350 with a TA to the front of a regular H and have the decals custom made.

The key is in how they described the tractor. Did they try to pass it off as a real tractor or were they up front in saying that it is a custom tractor?

It always amazes me how a guy will fawn over a classic car with the wrong engine, the wrong wheels, painted a non-original color, but if a drop of red paint isn't where it should be on a tractor, it's a crime against humanity and the person that did it should be shipped off to a Guatemalan prison.

 

[BarnyardEngineering]

Why not just dish them in and slide them out so they fit in 30 inch rows.

Because they look absolutely stupid with the wheels dished in.

That H will fit down 30" rows easily and takes up no more or less room than one with the wheels dished in and set the same width.

 

[Mike Fitz]

The exhaust excluded you used to see H's and M's painted up in a similar way in the 60's in the wild, I would assume just to make them more current looking to the 450's and 560's.

 

[Brown David]

I bet the guy who owns it doesn't really care about what anyone else thinks of it.

I'm not a fan of IH stuff by any stretch but other than the extra pipe, that's one of the nicer ones I have seen.

 

[jwal10]

I love the sleek look of the H. I grew up with 2 plow tractors and think most of the early styled tractors looked good. I have painted later tractors different. I have a 454 with a straight front axle from a 2400, painted in Cub Cadet colors. The inspiration was the industrial model 2400 but in less harsh yellow than the industrial yellow. I also had a Oliver Super 66 that I painted in the 66 colors because I like the yellow stripe that runs back on the sides, and the red rear wheels. Always liked the later Farmalls with wide front with disc wheels painted white much better than the red wheels. Especially when adding flotation (wider wheels and tires) like 9.5x15 or 11Lx15. I painted the front wheels on the Oliver 66 with Oliver Clover white paint but only had 5.50x16 front tires on a wide front....James

 

[NDIHC]

the only thing special is the butcher job of the hood to make that ridiculous dual exhaust and the paint scheme on it. The paint if it had been white instead of a cream color would have looked pretty nice for a change of color to it. But just an H. Why does it seem everybody has to have the wheels dished out then slid all the way in on the axles? Why not just dish them in and slide them out so they fit in 30 inch rows. Takes less shed space and the wives tale of tipping over is pretty much silly unless you try driving on 45 degree slopes or more. They also load easier with no issues. Ours is set for 60 inch centers to fit 30 inch rows and saves a lot of shed space like that. Our MD is also.

I have 2 Ms with the wheels dished out, because I like them that way. I have one with the wheels dished in, because that's how the tires will fit within the width of the loader bucket and it will fit in the trailer that way. I couldn't give a rat sass about row crop widths because I don't farm with them. I have never seen anyone using a tractor to cultivate row crops. I think that practice was long gone by the time I was aware it existed in the 70s. Only have ever seen pictures from the 60s or earlier of mounted cultivators in the field.

 

[jwal10]

I don't like the wheels turned in, especially with wheel weights. H's were never on 30" rows back in the day, here, plus many had wide fronts here in the valley. Plus with fenders that narrow, it make it very tight getting off and on....James

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[560Dennis]

Turn the wheels in for pulling