It followed me home.....

Goose · Sep 9, 2019

Literally, on the tow bar.

This is the H I bought on an auction that quit on me when I tried driving it home, so I ended up towing it with the tow bar.

I originally thought it was fuel starvation, like from a plugged sediment bowl, but now I'm not so sure. It runs, ut it acts more like ignition. In fact, I think I'll check the timing. The distributor is angled different from my other two H's.

Anyway, it's a straight old H, not cobbled up like some get.

Donald Lehman · Sep 9, 2019

Neat!

old · Sep 9, 2019

How many more Hs do you need?? I have 4 I have been trying to sell for years all 1940. 3 ran when I parked them and one is a parts machine

fastfarmall · Sep 9, 2019

Yea it even has the inset front piece, in the grill.

Gambles · Sep 9, 2019

30+ years ago, my neighbor had an IH "H" that got left out in the field with no can on the exhaust...for several years. My dad and I always had to put up wood during the winter and he saw it and bought it from the neighbor. I was fresh out of automotive mechanic school, so it was my job to get it running. A couple of the cylinders were full of rust and mouse nests and the dry sleeves came out with the pistons. Not willing to leave well enough alone, I bought some high dome pistons for it, did a complete overhaul and put it back together. I even had this bright idea to do some redneck engineering on it and, with the help of a local machine shop, converted it over to a spin-on oil filter using the same filter that fits early V8 Chevies. The machine shop ground the crank so that the bearings were tight, a lot tighter than the book preferred and would peg the oil gauge every time it starts up. It still has a very high oil pressure, but drops a little bit after the oil gets warm.
Dad put many hours on that H and my mom still has it, complete with a front-mounted buzz saw. My dad really liked that tractor because of the road gear.

jeffcat · Sep 9, 2019

You literally "dragged" it home didn't you. Very nice set of work clothes. I would leave it alone.

Goose · Sep 9, 2019

That makes 3 for me.

A friend of mine who ranches out in the Nebraska Sandhills has 6. Each is dedicated to its own job on the ranch. He says they're still the best tractor out there for haying.

oldtanker · Sep 9, 2019

Best tractor for haying has a tight car with good AC and a good cabin filtration system! Besides, H won't run modern round balers and who wants to mess with idiot cubes?

Rick

Leroy · Sep 10, 2019

Some of us think that about the big round bales.

Geo-TH,In · Sep 10, 2019

Goose, not everyone needs a tractor to bale hay. Growing up on a dairy farm we had an H with a pipe loader. Today's standards for a loader is much different than it was 60 years ago.

We used the loader to feed silage from pit silo. Loader was easier than manually removing silage from silo.

I wouldn't trade my Farmall C with 6 ft belly mower for the biggest and greatest ZTR.

I wouldn't buy a tractor unless I had a need either.

Hope you find the H useful.

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