<div dir="ltr"><div>I love all brands and have more IH (6) than anything else and used several of them for many years but they are not the tractors I used or saw that much growing up. My father did buy and use a McCormick 10-20 after the war as a second tractor when both new and used tractors were still in short supply. I was around it and played on it but at age seven when it was sold (traded for a car actually) I could not reach most controls or steer it well enough to drive it alone. In the early 1950's the Ford/Ferguson 9N became kind of my tractor to use along with the Deere MC crawler and the 40-C that replaced the MC. They were easy for me to drive. The next IHC on the farm was a new 300 Utility about 1956. I did really like that tractor. The neighbor across the back fence had replaced his horses in 1946 and when we moved here in 1951 he was farming with an SC Case which was what the closest neighbor back on the other farm used. Another close neighbor back there worked closely with my father used an 8N Ford (likely because his brother was a dealer). The guy across the road from our house just ran a beef herd and his only tractor was a Farmall Cub. Here I grew up watching a neighbor using a 9N Ford and a couple of Allis WC's before he bought an Oliver 77 and in later years a Ferguson TO-20. He also owned a Farmall F-30 but didn't use it for field work, just for filling a new Harvestore silo. I now have that F-30 (kind of a long story). The neighbor across the back fence with the SC Case bought an Allis CA when they came out. Two brothers that farmed across a fence over at the edge of town had all John Deere stuff including a B and an A. There were a few more Deere's around the neighborhood and I used to love listening to them running off in the distance late on a quiet night... One larger (for the time) farmer between us and town used all late model Massey Harris tractors, three of them if I'm remembering right. Another neighbor in the opposite direction had several MM's. An uncle had a then new MM-R and I have it now, Acquired at auction. My Allis C came from the estate auction of an old family friend. <br></div><div>We also had 2 neighbors who had 8N Fords. There were a lot of IHC tractors, mostly M's not far away, just not in this neighborhood.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>.<br></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 7:30 AM John Hall <<a href="mailto:jtchall@nc.rr.com">jtchall@nc.rr.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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To my knowledge, no relation. However that side of the family has
never been researched very much (at least by any one I know). For
whatever reason, family history always was concentrated on dad's
mother's side. They lived in the same area for over 200 years until
WWII caused virtually all of them to be displaced to build a
military base.<br>
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Regarding my preference for IH, its mainly just old stuff--no real
preference on newer machines. Dad worked for 23 years for the local
IH dealer. Also being knee deep in tobacco country, IH tractors
were everywhere as that is what 99% of the farms used up until the
early/mid 80's.<br>
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If you are ever in the area, go see the Cyrus McCormick historical
site. Its one of those state historic sites that hardly anyone knows
exists. Its self guided tour of 2-3 buildings, lots of models IH
built for a Worlds Fair on display.<br>
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John Hall<br>
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<div class="gmail-m_-3056611218161809566moz-cite-prefix">On 7/25/2019 7:11 PM, James Peck wrote:<br>
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<pre class="gmail-m_-3056611218161809566moz-quote-pre">AT list member John Hall has several times voiced a strong preference for antique tractors of the International Harvester brand. We know that CaseIH is a current brand of CNH Industrial, FKA Fiat Industrial. We know that McCormick tractors are a brand of Argo, which also makes Landini tractors.
The inventor of the reaper was Cyrus Hall McCormick, a Virginian. Virginia is adjacent to North Carolina. John Hall tells us he is a North Carolinian. Are they related.
<a class="gmail-m_-3056611218161809566moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.ancestry.com/genealogy/records/cyrus-hall-mccormick-24-1r6k2c" target="_blank">https://www.ancestry.com/genealogy/records/cyrus-hall-mccormick-24-1r6k2c</a>
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</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>-- <br><br>Francis Robinson<br>aka "farmer"<br>Central Indiana USA<br><a href="mailto:robinson46176@gmail.com" target="_blank">robinson46176@gmail.com</a><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br></div></div></div>