Back in the day equipment

[Farmall Charlie]

Hello.
I am curious, I have 2 international super MTAs that were my great grandpas. I just want some general information on some of the practices of that era.

Planting ( pull type or mounted)
Haying (bails or lose hay)
What was more common then the combine or the threshing Machine.

I am just wondering what it would have been like when the M was the biggest on the market. I have done some plowing with it and have enjoyed it. I might do some food plots with it this year.

Just looking for information
Thanks
Charlie
 

[paul]

Pull type planter. Some areas might have had a front mount 2 row somewhat common, not up here.

That would have covered the transition from loose to baled hay. Both.

Pull type combine. Ear corn picker.

Paul
 

[DannyE]

Early 50s, pull type planters, lose hay, threshing machines. Anyway that is what I grew up with on a 120 acre farm in so central mn, with a 44 Farmall
H and a team of Belgian horses.
 

[flying belgian]

And every square inch fall plowed with a moldboard plow.
 

[SVcummins]

We still plowed everything acre into the 90s
 

[Traditional Farmer]

On the neighboring farm that I now cut hay on there is a shed with 5 or 6 pieces of equipment all put in there in the 1960's and never used again mostly in good condition.JD Van Brunt drill,David Bradley corn planter,Ferguson rake, among other implements.
 

[rrlund]

I don't know what backwards corner of the world some people live in, but a Super MTA would have been in an era with a hydraulic
lift pull type plow, pull type corn planter most likely, but I believe you could get a mounted planter for them, rubber tired grain
drill, pull type combine and a baler.
 

[Farmall Charlie]

what would the model be for a planter of that era?

Just looking for information
Thanks
Charlie
 

[Farmall Charlie]

Thanks for everyone's information.
 

[Duner Wi]

IH corn planter Model 249 or 250 would be close. I know they sold the 250 into the 60s.
250 in 1963 cost $450.00 with fertilizer attachment.
 

[paul]

Neighbor plows all cornstalks, several thousand acres. Others in the greater area do as well. I plowed into the 2000s, I have chiseled since but did buy a 6 botto plow last summer, want to do a little agsin.

Paul
 

[paul]

IHC did pretty good with their 56 model planter. That would be towards the end of the M timeline.

Here it was pretty common to mix and match equipment, lot of Green planters were pulled by Red tractors, Oliver plows were pulled by all colors of tractors, etc. so I
cant even think of the older IHC planters. But, the model M Mcormick IHC grain drill is still about the most popular grain drill around here.

Not so much brand loyalty here.

Paul
 

[lastcowboy32]

[Farmall Charlie]

But... overall... the one thing that I remember being a hallmark of the days of the Super M-TA, and the Farmall 460 for that matter... is the breakneck rides down slopes, if you had engaged the TA going up hill and forgot to disengage going back down. Those one-way clutches in the TA were... um... fun and interesting...[/quote]

I have heard many stories about the TA in those tractor. My grandpa grew up on one and he made that mistake once.... only once. He also said that my great grandpa had a john deere A (maybe) and his brother was going down hill with it and pulled the hand clutch and was flying by the time he reached the bottom.
 

[Farmallb]

I dont see what era your talking about, so Ill guess tween 40 and 60. Plows were pull type. Mostly rubber tired, but still many steel ones
lying around not being used. Disc pull type either wing or tandem. Planter for a H or a M usually, but not always IHC 2 row mounted, OR
rubber tired pull type, rope trip. Cultivator 2 row mounted. Mower simi mounted, All this for an H. With a M, which we had, but didnt
use it fdor any mounted equipment as dad had gone to JD A & B by that time.