Young kids still have it.

Rick Remmert · Sep 23, 2013

I think Jan can atest to the fact that young kids can still suprise you from time to time. These pictures are from the Kansas State Fair last week. Two Farmalls that were completely taken apart, cleaned, overhauled and put back together by a group of high school students. Iam sure there was help from a teacher! The poster boards didn't show very well. It rained and the water got behind the plastic and you can't read them very well.

macec3(TX) · Sep 24, 2013

I wished that the school had a class like that when I was attending. Would have been very interesting and fun. Could have learned something that would be useful for a lifetime.

PretendFarmer · Sep 24, 2013

Nice. No doubt the correct police will be saying something about the H's H label.

John M · Sep 24, 2013

And the black drawbars.

bassmasta76 · Sep 24, 2013

In my humble opinion, they have done a magnificent job, and should be commended. Regardless of some minor mistakes, these old IH's look pretty good to me.

John M · Sep 24, 2013

Oh yea! They did a pretty good job!!

DaninKansas · Sep 24, 2013

Our local high school has dropped auto mechanics and metals shop completely - but the football team got new uniforms......

FBH44 · Sep 24, 2013

Aw, c"mon guys, a mistake is when you put the engine in upside-down. Let"s not label their work as "mistakes" or not auite up to our "correct" standards. I totally approve changing colors, relocating decals. Looks jusr fine.

rustyfarmall · Sep 24, 2013

I've seen quite a few Hs with the "H" in the wrong location, as well as a few Ms. I won't find fault with anybody for making that mistake, and I sure don't see anything wrong with the black paint on the drawbar. Those students are to be highly commended for their work. I wouldn't be ashamed to own either tractor.

Wilks54 · Sep 24, 2013

They look good to me! Who knows, they could have been doing these projects for someone who wanted the "H" in that spot and likes black drawbars.... I have done some restorations "wrong" because that is the way grandpa had it.

IH fan · Sep 24, 2013

Did not make it to the fair this year, but always make it a point to see the FFA tractors. The last couple of years I drove a WC Allis into the fairgrounds for the antique tractor show. This year due to the club's insurance changes, I didn't get to do that. I would have had to join the club to be insured on the drive in and my friend was a little nervous about it. I wasn't concerned about the about drive, but you never know what crazy driver might hit you.
Wife and I decided there wasn't anything we left there last year, so didn't need to go back to find anything this year.

Rick Remmert · Sep 24, 2013

Where do you live? I went thru the same thing here, but out at the JUCO. I taught night classes out there for over 12 years. The board decided to close the metals classes which was having good class sizes for no given reason. The next year the classroom was all redone and they were having an art class in there. Give me a break! Closed the drafing classes down also, but have since reinstated them.

Paul from MI · Sep 24, 2013

I side with Wilks on the "correct" question. I just finished restoring a Farmall H bought new by my grandfather and used most of its life by my uncle. There are few minor things that aren't "correct", but that's the way Grandpa and Uncle Tommy used it, that's the way I remember using it as a kid, and that's the way I left it. "Nuff said!

IH fan · Sep 24, 2013

(quoted from post at 06:13:04 09/24/13) Nice. No doubt the correct police will be saying something about the H's H label.

Not knocking anything here, just a question for my own info. Can anyone tell me if that's a Super M or a straight M? Reason I ask, is I thought the emblem on the front was an IH and not a Farmall on all the Supers.... maybe not, just asking.

LMack · Sep 24, 2013

IH did not appear until the Number Series. Farmall is correct.

Anonymous-0 · Sep 25, 2013

I help our FFA restore tractors to raise money for the chapter. we have done 5 so far with a450 460 and m in the works. some times we dress things up a little painting the axel blacks and a few control rods ect we even had a decal made that said FFA Edition on the M sticker. helps sell tickets and got us on Max Armstrongs tractor shed progam

Frank Caldwell · Sep 25, 2013

I would like to address the comments about sports vs Shop classes. I am a retired Vocational Ag teacher and Division I football player that played in 2 Bowl Games. When I went to my last school in 78, we had 3 football coaches and two Ag teachers. When I retired, we had one Ag teacher and 7 football coaches. I must have not been very good at promoting Ag. Our Superintendent used to walk the football field every day, but was in the Ag Building twice my last year. Most Administrators are former athletes that were PE teachers. Now we have two Ag Teachers again. Our present Superintendent is a former Shop teacher. Each of us need to talk to school board members who have "hands on" interests in our schools. We also need to offer assistance to the shop teachers when we promote farm equipment restoration. Let me know if this works for anyone.

DaninKansas · Sep 25, 2013

Wamego Ks.

John M · Sep 25, 2013

I couldnt agree with you more Frank! I use to help with an ag mechanics class at the local high school, until the program was shut down 3 years ago. When I went there in the 80s, we had agriculture, electrical, building construction, machine shop , and auto mechanics.Now, there are no vacational classes at all. When my oldest started there in 2009, they had auto mechanics and machine shop. Machine shop was shut down his junior year, so he didnt get to finish that class, and it threw him into a weird schedule. Auto Mech. was shut down this year!

Denny ('60 Lo-Boy) · Sep 25, 2013

(quoted from post at 00:45:01 09/25/13) IH did not appear until the Number Series. Farmall is correct.

The IH emblem started with the Super M's.

IH fan · Sep 25, 2013

Sorry, it was a duplicate.

IH fan · Sep 25, 2013

(quoted from post at 09:07:21 09/25/13)

(quoted from post at 00:45:01 09/25/13) IH did not appear until the Number Series. Farmall is correct.

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The IH emblem started with the Super M's.

That's what I thought too, so is the fair "Super M" a Super with the wrong front emblem, or an M with Super M stickers? Just wondering, not trying to be a "correct police" because the main thing is some young person resurrected a nice old tractor and if everything is not "correct", who cares? I have more of a problem with the guy that paints everything just perfect, one piece at a time, because "real" tractors were not that perfect.

Janicholson · Sep 25, 2013

I agree they scare me on both ends of the spectrum. Most can doo well. Most need coaching to succeed, some can fail but it is due to personal issues and lazyness, not inate inability. Love 4H and FFA. Jim

T in NE · Sep 29, 2013

My cousin and I were in the last year of board drafting my high school had. Her and a friend went to vo-tech visitation day to check the drafting course out, teacher told them to look around and where all the supplies were if they wanted to try something out. They started in on some stuff that his more advanced second-year (3-year program) students typically get into.

A couple weeks later our teacher came in and said we were loosing the last 2 weeks of our time in the metal shop to mothball it, as the class had been cancelled. Guess someone at the vo-tech didn't like getting his feet stepped on.

The wood shop teacher at that point (shared the classroom, with the shops off to different sides) started teaching board drafting for the first 6 weeks of class each year.

Sad the class was cancelled, there had a small CNC machine that was 2 years old, three top-end (for the time, they were bought around 1990) lathes, surface grinder, Bridgeport machine, 3 top-end Miller welders, 2-booth oxy-acetylene set-up, and a foundry. As far as I know it's still all sitting there unused.

We always dominated the "industrial arts" competitions at the local college.

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I kinda like the black drawbars.

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