Old Tractor

I have an old Inter.Harvester tractor with a serial #177385 Model H-FBH,it also has maximun idle speed 1815 can anyone give me a little information as what year it is, are there many of them around etc? The tractor was in the barn of a piece of property I purchased. Thankyou.

Sounds like a 1944 H. The H was the most popular tractor IH ever made, close to 400,000 of them and a lot of them still around.

I have 171344. 1944 was a good year for H's.

Tell us more about your tractor, and post a picture if you can.

It"s about the easiest tractor to restore, and they are good if you want a good sized tractor you can easily haul. They are usable for some small farm jobs too. They are nice tractors

When I was a young-un in the early 40s, I thought the H was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen. Actually, I still think it is one of the most perfect designs (talking of style) of all time. When I finally got to use one seriously a few years later--my dad bought a used H--I found that it was much more comfortable than the F-20 we had been using, more agile, more "civilzed" in some ways, but that it lacked the brute force of the older tractor, which (on rubber) would run rings around the H with a 14" plow. Still, the H would do a good days' work with a 2-bottom plow or a 7' harrow, but only in second gear (the F-20 was in second gear also, but on 36" tires, it was a good half-mile-per-hour faster than the H in second, and because it had a much bigger engine, it had gobs of torque to pull through thick-and-thin). The H is a nice "chore tractor" just because it is comfortable and easy to steer (and it doesn't have as much tendancy to kick back through the steering as the older tractor did), not hard to get on and off of, is fairly quiet with a muffler. It replaces an F-12 or F-14 in a lot of light chores, but can do good heavy work within its capacity, too. Its extra ground speeds make a nice change from the F-12/14, which can seem snail-like when you have to go a mile or more at 4 mph. Lots of farmers are still using an H for all kinds of things. Wish I had some use for one. Every time I get a chance to drive an H or an M owned by somebody I know, I go back 60 years right on the spot. Nice.