H Farmalls--Show of hands...

[Keith True]

I have had a few of them.I think they were one of the dandiest tractors ever made.They were geared a little too high for my use though.I had one given to me about 25 years ago because it had no electrical system on it.I had to pretty much give it away to get rid of it later.They were kind of a favorite for me to work on too.I still have some H specific tools around.I just came across a set of T handles to drop the hydraulic pump out of the belly.About 30 years ago I was in the middle of an in-chassis freshen up,and the owner died.The owners daughter knew about it,and asked if I would be OK with just keeping the tractor.She said they would rather give it to me than to deal with it.I still have it.It is stored in a friends shed,with a cordwood saw mounted on the front.It does get used.

 

[Absent Minded Farmer]

Didn't know they made a propane version of the H. Here in the north never been around a cotton picker either.

Fairly certain IH came out with a propane retrofit kit for the Letter Series once the Supers came out. Would have been a factory option in the era of the Hundreds.

Mike

 

[will-max dairy]

Got one lying dead behind the barn. I bought it for the tires to go on my M. Used the loader frame for a dump body sub frame on my pickup. Adapted the narrow front to my C. Wheel weights are hanging on the back blade on my MF 175. Picked a few more small parts here and there. The engine was stuck, and somebody had bent a rod trying to unstick it.

"used the loader frame for a dump body sub frame"

Genius

We have a trip bucket loader off of an old Massey TO30, it lays there on the ground, and I could never figure out what to do with it...

 

[Three Bs]

I have a 1944 war model H, has the steel gear shift knob.

 

[1938G]

I have a 1941 and a 1948 model H

 

[old]

For kicks, how many of ya'll own an H Farmall?

I own three, a '41, '44, and a '51, All running and able to do what's asked of them.

A friend, now deceased, who owned a cow ranch north of Ogalala, NE, owned six, each with a specific job on the ranch. Up until the day he died a couple of years ago, he swore they were still the handiest tractors for putting up hay.

Out of the 95,000, give or take, that were built from 1939 to 1952 it would be interesting to know how many are still alive and well and earning their keep.

I have 4 1940 Hs

 

[wd9garymn]

I have 2, a 43 and a 50. The 43 i got in 1967 and worked the heck out of it. Was my planter, wagon hauler, feed grinder and snow plow tractor with a loader on the whole time. It still does snow plow duty. The 50 does misc. summertime duty. Bought it as a grove tractor for $145.00 in 1974. Brought it home and cleaned points, plugs and pulled the valve cover to check for any problems, none there. Gas tank was dry and clean, fresh gas and new battery and it started right up and still runs like a top. Gary.

 

[Keith True]

Years ago I looked at an H on steel.It is owned by a family farm,and they just keep it preserved because grampa bought it new.Everybody that looks at it just winces.It has real tall pointy cleats,and everybody just pictures either bouncing around on them,or getting run over by them.

 

[Gambles]

My dad was a John Deere man, but was always open to a “great bargain”. Growing up on a dairy farm, dad and I always put up firewood on winter weekends to keep the feed wagon from freezing up at night. We went to a different spot one weekend, and there was an H sitting out in the field. It had been there a few years…with no can on the exhaust. Dad made a sweetheart deal and we pulled it home. I was fresh out of mechanics school, so he knew what he was doing. Dad got free mechanic work. Two pistons had to be pounded out with a piece of hedge wood and the cylinders came out with it. I bought a set of pop-up high domer pistons, complete with sleeves, from Tractor Supply. It got a complete overhaul. (Remember when TSC sold tractor parts?)
We had a lot of our alfalfa fields about 10 miles from the home farm, so I liked the tractor because it had a nice road gear, unlike a four-speed JD B or an AC C that we commonly used.
The tractor was willed to me and I still have it. It has a buzz saw on the front and a sickle mower on the rear. I’m not a red-paint collector, but it’s got sentimental value.

 

[Longknife]

I have a 52 H. first "farm" tractor I ever bought in about '83. I built homemade 3 point hitch for it and used it just about every day, for brush hogging, mowing, plowing , discing, hauling firewood, and its been in a few parades and tractor pulls too. I operated a large pumpkin patch and sold to local markets for several years. I also sold out of a wagon in my front yard. I was known as the "Pumpkin Man". My son Got an M but it just seemed clumsy and BIG, he sold it soon after buying it. Had to retire my H when the family farm was sold but I take it for spins every so often to keep it lubed up!

 

[Rich'sToys]

I know of several others besides the ones I have.

The Mn. Agricultural Interpretive Center, Farmamerica, has one.

A friend of mine offered to give me one a number of years ago, but his wife (now his ex) wanted their kids to have it because it was a family tractor. The last I heard, it was still sitting in the shed, slowly sinking into the ground. At least it's under a roof.

Another friend of mine has one also.

 

[bob p mn]

The H was a very popular tractor when I was growing up, seems like every small farm around here had at least 1. Them days around here most of these small farms milked a few cows and cut pulpwood in the winter, the H's were a good fit for hay making and also skidding wood. The first tractor I bought was a H from a neighbors auction. It was eventually sold and the original owners son has it back now, still going. The second H I bought I also sold back to a grandson of the farmer who had it for years. I worked for a couple brothers making hay while I was in school and done with hay at home, they each had a H spent alot of time cutting hay with one of the H's and raking with another. There is still alot of them around here but most of them are taking it easy.

 

[Timmycornpicker]

I have a 47. Not running for awhile, got parked with a magneto issue. That's fixed, but now I have a carburetor issue. I want to get it running again because I acquired a mid-mount no. 115 sickle mower to put on it.

 

[Timmycornpicker]

Years ago I looked at an H on steel.It is owned by a family farm,and they just keep it preserved because grampa bought it new.Everybody that looks at it just winces.It has real tall pointy cleats,and everybody just pictures either bouncing around on them,or getting run over by them.

Our old neighbors had an F12 on steel with cultivators that they used well into the 90s in their horticultural nursery. Just watching one of the old guys drive it down the hard-packed lanes between the plots made my posterior sore.

 

[John M]

We had 2 or 3 over the years, but I dont know the year models. We used one for cultivating for a few years until we got the M, then it took on that duty. One was bougfht by my gramps, and it mostly say in his barn, and another we would often use during the winter pulling a trailer for firewood, and in the spring for bags of seed to the field and in the fields. Like I said, we didnt keep them too long, there was always something bigger to buy as our farm got bigger. The only thing left of those years in my M. Dad bught it in 75, maybe 74. my brain aint functioning right today.

 

[blueridge]

For kicks, how many of ya'll own an H Farmall?

I own three, a '41, '44, and a '51, All running and able to do what's asked of them.

A friend, now deceased, who owned a cow ranch north of Ogalala, NE, owned six, each with a specific job on the ranch. Up until the day he died a couple of years ago, he swore they were still the handiest tractors for putting up hay.

Out of the 95,000, give or take, that were built from 1939 to 1952 it would be interesting to know how many are still alive and well and earning their keep.

I own a 42 H same age as me restored and only used for Tractor Drives

 

[Harold Hubbard]

"used the loader frame for a dump body sub frame"

Genius

We have a trip bucket loader off of an old Massey TO30, it lays there on the ground, and I could never figure out what to do with it...

Loader frame was basically two lengths of four inch channel iron. Is your Massey like that, or is it a tube frame?

 

[will-max dairy]

Loader frame was basically two lengths of four inch channel iron. Is your Massey like that, or is it a tube frame?

It's a strong little rectangular frame, no round tubing.

I'm not sure what brand it was originally, but it's a tough little frame.

 

[Geo-TH,In]

The first tractor I drove was an H. It had a pipe loader which broke the bell housing . Dad split the tractor, Used an acetylene torch and brazed it back together. We used the loader to feed the cows silage out of the trench silo,
The H with a loader made me want a tractor with power steering.
I don't own an H, but I do have my mom's C. Special tractor.

 

[flying belgian]

For kicks, how many of ya'll own an H Farmall?

I own three, a '41, '44, and a '51, All running and able to do what's asked of them.

A friend, now deceased, who owned a cow ranch north of Ogalala, NE, owned six, each with a specific job on the ranch. Up until the day he died a couple of years ago, he swore they were still the handiest tractors for putting up hay.

Out of the 95,000, give or take, that were built from 1939 to 1952 it would be interesting to know how many are still alive and well and earning their keep.

My first tractor was a 52 Farmall H. I replaced it with a 560.