[AT] 1946 Farmall H

[charlie hill]

Nice H Michael.   I like to see them in their old work clothes like that. 
Should make a nice  project but one that will hold while you get some use 
out of her.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Miller" <sweetcorn70 at hotmail.com>
To: <farmall at lists.antique-tractor.com>; <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 2:23 PM
Subject: [AT] 1946 Farmall H


> 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
>
>
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