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<div data-externalstyle="false" dir="ltr" style="font-family: 'Calibri', 'Segoe UI', 'Meiryo', 'Microsoft YaHei UI', 'Microsoft JhengHei UI', 'Malgun Gothic', 'sans-serif';font-size:12pt;"><div>Massey Ferguson had air/hydraulic auto reset plows. The ones my cousin has, and uses on occasion, are four and five bottom semi-mount (hitches to lower lift links with hydraulic tail wheel). There is an air canister on the front of the plow with a precharge (nitrogen works best) and then you charge the hydraulic reset with tractor hydraulics. The diaphragm in the canister allows the plow bottom to trip against the air charge then reset.<br></div><div data-signatureblock="true"><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div style="padding-top: 5px; border-top-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid;"><div><font face=" 'Calibri', 'Segoe UI', 'Meiryo', 'Microsoft YaHei UI', 'Microsoft JhengHei UI', 'Malgun Gothic', 'sans-serif'" style='line-height: 15pt; letter-spacing: 0.02em; font-family: "Calibri", "Segoe UI", "Meiryo", "Microsoft YaHei UI", "Microsoft JhengHei UI", "Malgun Gothic", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'><b>From:</b> <a href="mailto:jtchall@nc.rr.com" target="_parent">John Hall</a><br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, February 17, 2019 10:34 PM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:at@lists.antique-tractor.com" target="_parent">Antique Tractor Email Discussion Group</a></font></div></div><div><br></div><div dir=""><div id="readingPaneBodyContent">Fast hitch was a good selling point for the one row machines, it was <br>used by some farmers, but a lot of homeowners and gardeners used those <br>implements and being able to change it quickly and easily was a selling <br>point back then. I guess I should point out that even back then there <br>were LOTS of people in this area that worked public work and tended huge <br>gardens and could afford a brand new tractor to do so. Most of the <br>successful tobacco farmers only used the one row machines for planting <br>and cultivating and towing "trailers" (the terminology for those was <br>very broad). The larger machines with 2 point hitch were just not all <br>that popular here. Dad didn't care for actual hitch, there was nothing <br>wrong with the hydraulics. Once those tractors became a few years old, <br>they were headed to being boat anchors as the rest of the industry was <br>going 3pt and you could buy those implements everywhere and any color. <br>We still see some some locally fabricated 1 pt equipment being produced <br>or retrofitted even today. Don't get me wrong, I love IH, but that hitch <br>design was one of their biggest screwups and let Deere get a toe hold in <br>the Southeast. My family went green for big HP beginning with a new <br>3010, this was the first Deere we ever had. It paved the way for 3 more <br>new Deere's before the farming ceased in 91. Only one new IH was added <br>during that time. With the tractors turning green, so did the implements <br>and 4 new combines. The only thing they backed up on was Deere's <br>pathetic excuse for a auto reset plow--it used hydraulics instead of <br>trip springs like IH. Guess we were just brand loyal.<br><br>John Hall<br><br><br>On 2/17/2019 9:48 PM, James Peck wrote:<br>> This claims the Farmall Super C was the first tractor to have IH Fast Hitch in 1953. IH had 15 years to get Fast Hitch working well before your father stated working on them or did he work on hydraulic tractor lifts somewhere else?<br>><br>> https://www.farmcollector.com/implements/the-ih-fast-hitch-story<br>><br>> John hall] <snip> Dad is 88, spent from 1968-1991 working for an IH dealer. He never cared for anything IH had with a 2 point hitch, nor did he like the brakes (or lack there of) on the 400/450.<snip><br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> AT mailing list<br>> AT@lists.antique-tractor.com<br>> http://lists.antique-tractor.com/listinfo.cgi/at-antique-tractor.com<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>AT mailing list<br>AT@lists.antique-tractor.com<br>http://lists.antique-tractor.com/listinfo.cgi/at-antique-tractor.com<br></div></div></div>
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