[AT] 1946 Farmall H

[Michael Miller]

List,

It seems we are all getting the winter crazies.  I just thought I'd post a 
link to a picture of the 1946 Farmall H I bought at my uncles farm sale this 
past weekend.  He did remove the fenders and weights before it sold.  It was 
going too cheap and I picked my nose once and brought it home  :-)   We have 
used this tractor before, several years ago back before I actually bought my 
own tractors to do our farming with.  It runs well and while it needs a 
little loving I thought it wasn't too bad for what I paid for it.   I was 
going to resell it but I made the mistake of telling my lady friend it was 
her tractor and now I think I have to keep it.  I've got an HM-221 
cultivator setup I'd like to mount on it but I'd also like to find a 2 
bottom 4240 Oliver plow and then take the pair to plow days.   I've got a 3 
bottom for behind my Super MTA that I'd like to take as well but I'll need a 
bigger trailer first!   I like the IH plows but a #60 or #70 that is 
equivalant to the 4240/4340 is twice the money so I'll stick with the 
Olivers.  They do work good, too.

Over christmas break, I took apart the governor on my Super MTA.  I had a 
hunch that it was wore and it was.   The holes in the weights that the pin 
goes through was ate out about twice the size it shoulda been.  One of the 
bearings was also bad.  I had purchased another governor off EBAY because I 
thought it was too cheap and for what it was, it was too cheap indeed.   It 
had been gone through, everything was tight.  I swapped it onto the Super 
MTA and while I need to do some adjusting in the linkages yet it is already 
a great improvement.  I'm hoping now that I have that fixed maybe it'll run 
well enough to pull that three bottom.   It ran OK before but it just seemed 
like it ran out of power before it should have.   We have an M that would 
outlug it any day of the week.

I've got 10 million projects to do but no time, money, or space to do them.  
I need to swap the brake shaft and pedals out of a Super M parts tractor 
into that Super MTA, tinker with dads M a little bit, fix the Steering in 
that M, put my A back together, rebuild the head on the Oliver, play with 
that new H, yadda yadda yadda.

Whats everyone else upto?

http://public.fotki.com/sweetcorn70/new/othernewpics/myfarmallh.html

Milo