television program and a little more on jd hicrops

Just wondering if any of you saw the hallmark movie on Sunday evening (on CBS I think). Was a pretty good film and had a couple good shots of what looked to be around a '37 John Deere 'D'. Surprised to see the attention to detail. Tractor was in the right time period and looked used. Although, they didn't have the connected rear tread but what the hey, it was a pretty good movie anyhow. I mean, how often do movies have good lookin old tractors in their true element? Also, the high crop post I had earlier about production numbers on them verses JD 'R' tractors. I got the number from a book called "John Deere Tractors and Equipment vol. 1" I think the authors were MacMillan and Jones. It has a reference section in the back and unless they really screwed up the high crops appeared to have been made in larger numbers than the R. At least, collectively. I know the high crops are rare today. I was just curious as to why, if the book was suggesting there were so many produced. Just wondering. Glad for the answers I got though, so thank you. God bless.

--old fashioned farmer

Okay 105Diesel, I gotta get this worked out. Help me figure this out. Here's what my book has. This is in the section titled "John Deere Tractor Model Production Years". Alright. For the JD Model AH it has starting year 1951 and ending year 1952. Its starting serial number is 665,000 and ending serial number is 703,383. Doing the math that means there were 38,383 serial numbers from start to finish. There is another section called "Tractor Model Build Dates For First and Last Made". In this section the AH has the start date of 7/10/50 and end date of 4/25/52. the first ser. # is 665,665 and last is 702,428 which leaves 36,763. That's still up there. Now, we know the R had numbers of around 21,000 right? In this book it labels the R start at 2/1/49 and end at 11/1/54. The first ser. # is 1000 and end is 22,293. That leaves 21,293 which is pretty close to the number we know. So, how is it that the R's numbers match up in this book with the numbers we know but the high crops don't? I mean, I don't know. Where can I find other info on the numbers for the high crops? It's just a curiosity that's bugging me. Appreciate your help and look forward to hearing from you. God bless.

--old fashioned farmer

The same thing applies to the other Waterloo-built Hi-Crops----the book you refer to gives serial number ranges, but not all of those tractors were Hi-Crops, of course, whereas ALL the Model "R" tractors in the serial number range were Model "R" tractors.

There were a grand total of 1345 two-cylinder Waterloo-built Hi-Crops built, from the "AH" to the "730".

Hope this helps.

Okay, I gotcha now. Thanks a bunch! Glad to have that sorted out. Just couldn't get my mind around those numbers for a while there. Thanks again and God bless.

--old fashioned farmer

He said something like "This is a working farm, and if something isn't being used and doin' work we get rid of it!"

Yeah..... Right! :)

I kept watching to see more of that "beet" farming so I would know what the heck Allan's been yakking about.

Stan