Not a Farmall guy but here we are
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Topic: Not a Farmall guy but here we are
Posted By: AllisFreak MN
Subject: Not a Farmall guy but here we are
Date Posted: 09 Jul 2025 at 8:51pm
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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? ------------- '49 A-C WD, '51 A-C WD, '63 A-C D17 Series III, 1968 A-C One-Seventy, '82 A-C 6060, '75 A-C 7040, A-C #3 sickle mower, 2 A-C 701 wagons, '78 Gleaner M2 |
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Posted By: wjohn
Date Posted: 09 Jul 2025 at 10:43pm
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That is neat and I'm glad you are keeping it in the family. I ended up with a Super M in a package deal with a WD-45 and a D-19, and I have become quite partial to the Super M. Hopefully you are hanging onto the cultivator and mounting parts even if it is in a fence row? ------------- 1939 B, 1940 B, 1941 WC, 1951 WD, 1952 CA, 1956 WD-45 |
Posted By: Gary Burnett
Date Posted: 10 Jul 2025 at 2:36am
| 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 |
Posted By: plummerscarin
Date Posted: 10 Jul 2025 at 6:15am
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My accountant also inherited some red tractors. Here's father had several letter series. A Super M and Cob Loboy came home with us. The Super had it's engine overhauled before he passed. Has few hours on it. It also has the red and white paint scheme similar to the newer tractors. He mowed the yard with the Loboy. Since then, we've gotten two more Cubs. These have plow, cultivator, and front/under mount blade attachments. So don't feel bad. I like em all. Just orange better 
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Posted By: 8070nc
Date Posted: 10 Jul 2025 at 7:22am
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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. ------------- 1984 80780 1957 D14 DES 300 with 25000 engine 616 tractor |
Posted By: Les Kerf
Date Posted: 10 Jul 2025 at 12:25pm
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My late Father-in-law grew up on a farm near Meridian, Idaho during the 1940's-50's. They raised lots of sugar beets, corn, etc. so there was plenty of row crops to cultivate. They used an Allis Model C, also a CA, and finally got a Farmall Super C and an H. In his opinion the Farmall hydraulic controls for the cultivator was superior because it went where you wanted it to and stayed there; it was just easier to use. He like the CA best for anything requiring a PTO. They later got a Farmall Super M with "High Altitude" pistons. for the heavy tillage |
Posted By: AllisFreak MN
Date Posted: 10 Jul 2025 at 4:41pm
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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. ------------- '49 A-C WD, '51 A-C WD, '63 A-C D17 Series III, 1968 A-C One-Seventy, '82 A-C 6060, '75 A-C 7040, A-C #3 sickle mower, 2 A-C 701 wagons, '78 Gleaner M2 |
Posted By: Ryan Renko
Date Posted: 10 Jul 2025 at 5:45pm
| We let our buddy store his M in our shed a few years ago. I admired the fact that you sat up higher and for not having power steering it turned very easily compared to Armstrong Allis Chalmers. Ryan |
Posted By: AC720Man
Date Posted: 10 Jul 2025 at 5:46pm
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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. ------------- 1968 B-208, 1976 720 (2 of them)Danco brush hog, single bottom plow,52" snow thrower, belly mower,rear tine tiller, rear blade, front blade, 57"sickle bar,1983 917 hydro, 1968 7hp sno-bee, 1968 190XTD |
Posted By: Pat the Plumber CIL
Date Posted: 10 Jul 2025 at 10:23pm
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My grandfather on my mother's side still had a Super M sitting in the middle of the corncrib by the time me and my older brother were old enough to operate. It had a sickle mower that mounted to the drawbar that we would use to keep some waterways mowed . Fast road gear with no fenders. Worried my grandmother death as me drove it up and down the country road along side her farm. ------------- You only need to know 3 things to be a plumber;Crap rolls down hill,Hot is on the left and Don't bite your fingernails 1964 D-17 SIV 3 Pt.WF,1964 D-15 Ser II 3pt.WF ,1960 D-17 SI NF,1956 WD 45 WF. |
Posted By: AC720Man
Date Posted: 11 Jul 2025 at 11:11am
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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? ------------- 1968 B-208, 1976 720 (2 of them)Danco brush hog, single bottom plow,52" snow thrower, belly mower,rear tine tiller, rear blade, front blade, 57"sickle bar,1983 917 hydro, 1968 7hp sno-bee, 1968 190XTD |
Posted By: IBWD MIke
Date Posted: 12 Jul 2025 at 7:16am
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There are a lot of Farmalls, letter and hundred series, in this world without fenders! Really not sure why? Optional equipment, expensive, who know? 400 and 450 both arrived here without them. 400 now has and have a set for the 450, if I ever get it running. My H doesn't have any either, pulling tractor so that's a weight thing.
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Posted By: AC7060IL
Date Posted: 12 Jul 2025 at 7:59am
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AllisFreak MN, If possible try to keep the cultivator for your wife's Farmall H. Like previously discussed, they offered a great high position view for its operator. You're right about the cultivator being clumpsy to attach to tractor. From the sounds of it's wheel setup, and the fact that it could take half a day to reattach, it was probably dedicated to the cultivator job? They were usually a good chore tractor if you're starting gas engine during winter months. Simple pto tractor good for grinding feed or running older grain augers/hay lift/corn dumps. Their narrow front ends enabled them to easily maneuver in/out of tight spots.
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Posted By: AllisFreak MN
Date Posted: 12 Jul 2025 at 8:34am
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You're right. I do think it was a dedicated cultivator tractor. All the hardware holding it on was the old square headed type. I think if it was being taken off & on that would have been changed. ------------- '49 A-C WD, '51 A-C WD, '63 A-C D17 Series III, 1968 A-C One-Seventy, '82 A-C 6060, '75 A-C 7040, A-C #3 sickle mower, 2 A-C 701 wagons, '78 Gleaner M2 |