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Dane706

07-30-2003 20:51:56




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I'm restoring a 1954 Super H and was wondering if anyone knows the correct seat color for this tractor. Maybe there was no "correct" seat, I've seen both silver, and red and white. This tractor was one of the last couple thousand built. Any thoughts would be appreciated.




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Roger

07-31-2003 19:53:23




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 Re: Super H seat color in reply to Dane706, 07-30-2003 20:51:56  
I can still remember the day my dad brought home the new Super H in early 1954. He drove it from another dealer 50 miles away (I never did know exactly why). I was in the second grade at the time. Between his and my butt end we wore that silver seat down to the bare metal. When I bought it at the farm sale in 1978, it was silver, but that was because it was worn down to the bare metal. Roger

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Guy Fay

07-31-2003 15:40:30




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 Re: Super H seat color in reply to Dane706, 07-30-2003 20:51:56  
Kinda a charcoal gray in early H production, I believe changed to Silver Koroseal in 1949 or thereabouts.



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The Dukester

07-31-2003 19:51:15




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 Re: Re: Super H seat color in reply to Guy Fay, 07-31-2003 15:40:30  
Guy, I remember the original seat on my uncle's '41 H pretty well. I sat in it for many hours driving in front of a home made flat rack wagon and David Bradley hay loader. The seat was, as you say, dark gray in color and of a heavy duck material. After the material wore out the jute padding was exposed and my uncle bought a sort of tie-on seat cover at the local IH dealer. This seat could be flipped over easily by grabbing a rod that stuck out from the center front about 3 inches underneath and raising the seat pan. And there was a funny little triangular tool box built on the bent tubular seat support underneath the seat. It was "standard procedure" to always flip the set over when you left the tractor for any amount of time so it wouldn't get hot in the sun or get wet when it rained. These old seats soaked up the water pretty bad if they got wet and it took quite a while to get them dried out again. When this tractor got traded for a '50 model H the seat was silver and a coarser more waterproof material padded with almost an inch of sponge rubber--and it couldn't be flipped over. On later models they wised up and incorporated a flip-over mechanism again that was nice except it wore out pretty fast and the seat got wobbley. Those later Monroe type seats were really a definate improvement over the old spring on the mounting bracket seats, they didn't "buck" little drivers up against the steering wheel like the first ones did when you hit bumps. The shock absorber was one heck of a good idea, along with the different progressive rate springs. Those are still pretty good seats.

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Ol' H

07-31-2003 05:54:30




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 Re: Super H seat color in reply to Dane706, 07-30-2003 20:51:56  
Not steal your post, but were all the regular H's seats silver also?



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Al

07-31-2003 04:37:59




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 Re: Super H seat color in reply to Dane706, 07-30-2003 20:51:56  
I never saw any from factory that was not silver. I am restoring mine to original silver.



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Farmer John

07-30-2003 22:06:18




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 Re: Super H seat color in reply to Dane706, 07-30-2003 20:51:56  
Brown Stiped?????



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Paul in Mich

07-31-2003 15:01:24




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 Re: Re: Super H seat color in reply to Farmer John, 07-30-2003 22:06:18  
Farmer John,
May we assume that you operate your tractor in the nude? Maybe if you took a bath, or as the rest of us, wore pants of some sort, you wouldn't experience the problem you are describing. As always, we here in this forum, are more than eager to help.



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Dick Davis

08-03-2003 04:23:24




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 Re: Re: Re: Super H seat color in reply to Paul in Mich, 07-31-2003 15:01:24  
Now, Paul, be nice!



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Red Rider

07-30-2003 21:02:56




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 Re: Super H seat color in reply to Dane706, 07-30-2003 20:51:56  
From the factory they were silver



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