Not a Farmall guy but here we are

I am not really a Farmall guy but my wife inhereted an H Farmall from her late father that was bought new by her grandfather.  It came from the dealership in my home town, a 1939 model I believe.  It had a mounted cultivator on it for the last 50 years set to 40 inch rows. I removed that. The rear wheels were set as far apart as the could possibly be at 80 inches center to center. I was able to move the wheels in to a respectable 66 inches center to center. It has not run in about 40 years but turns over and has been shedded the entire time.  I have 6 A-C's in the sheds now. Room is tight but how can I say no to this tractor?

I seem to remember that the 39 models were a little different from later models think it was the first year for them.I'd hang onto the equipment as it's usually harder to find than the tractors

Just some thoughts here. A lot of folks got started on a particular tractor brand because of thier grandfathers or at least someone in their family. Mine thankfully happened to be AC. The granndfathers did what they thought best and had thier reasons for going with the brand they chose. Preserving those machines preserves and honors their part in our lives and what they did for us. A beautiful thing in a world of ugliness and evil.

I was gonna scrap the cultivator but now you have me second guessing. I do have some fence rows I guess.  I'll never use it and it is a clumsy thing to put on and off.

Our dad grew up on a farm with AC tractors, the last one grand dad purchased was a WD45 which is still in the family. When our dad married our mother her dad had an H. After mom and dad purchased the farm from her father, he used the H until 1968 when he traded it in to purchase a new Series II D15 which we still have. Multiple AC’s joined the farm over the years including lawn care equipment. We continue to farm and mow with them. It scared him to sickle mow on some of the hills on our farm with it being narrow front but he said it was a good tractor. They are a great piece of history and there are still many around. Don’t worry about it being red, I had a JD70 diesel given to me a few years ago. It looks odd in a sea of orange in our storage shed, but it’s kinda of neat running it occasionally thinking of my buddy, his brother, and father that owned it.

I think Farmall and Deere called them wheel guards instead of fenders since they did not cover the top of the tires. I’ve seen most of the Farmalls and the 70 Deere I have do not have the wheel guards on them. It does make me uncomfortable driving it without them. Must have been a expensive option?