[AT] 1946 Farmall H

[Mattias Kessén]

How dare you, writing about something like that ;-)

Mattias


2007/1/30, Michael Miller <sweetcorn70 at hotmail.com>:
>
> 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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