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Migraine: If you go to photo adds here at YT about 3-4 days back there is one of these for sale. I think when IH sold these it could be ordered one of two ways, either completely assembled or they sold you the metal hardware kit and you used a local lumber supply. I remember seeing one of these kits at a dealers, it was little more than two fast hitch forks with a step down, much like the mowers have. The forks had cross members tieing the two together. 2" lumber was bolted to that crossways the tractor travel, using the customers desired length of lumber. In essence the customer could make it any width he wished. The kit also contained two pieces of 2x2 angle iron to attach and tie the ends of the boards together. These were just that simple. The ones my dad built for H and Cub were built much the same principle other than he used 3" or 4" by 6" or 8" over the U drawbar and in the case of the H under the axle carrier, and on the Cub under the cross bar the swinging drawbar hooked to. As I said before, the one we had for the Cub was too larger for loading. My dad built it that way on purpose, as he used it doing fences. He used to pile posts close to tractor, leaving enough space at back for him to stand on and swing the 16 lb. mall he had. This put him up a bit higher. In our area winter frosts use to heave posts and you had to give them all a few taps with the mall every spring, plus replace a few. When I was about 8-10 dad would get me to drive tractor and he would stand on back pounding each post as we came to it. When we would start in the morning with full load of posts, Cub would be quite light on front. Until we used a few posts off the load, every swing of the mall dad made, you could see front wheel of Cub slightly lift off the ground. Of course with the carrier that long if the front end came up 12" the carrier would skid along the ground.
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