Posted by Hugh MacKay on March 15, 2009 at 03:54:33 from (216.208.58.136):
In Reply to: Re: 354 IH year posted by georgeky on March 15, 2009 at 02:06:06:
George: I must admit I found these 30-50 hp British designed tractors of the 1970s a bit confusing. There always seemed to be a couple of models that were basically the same tractor. Generally speaking if it had a swept back front axle it was British design assembled at Louisville and if it had straight front axle it was assembled in Britain. Then to confuse us here in Canada even worse, one year we'd get Louisville then the next year we'd get British assembled model. About the only model they never sold both sides of the Canada-US border was the 444. I have never seen a Louisville 444, but Canada is lousy with British assembled 444.
The reason I remember this 354 next door, it was owned by a very part time beef cow calf farmer. His main income was explosives and forestry. He had a son very much a playboy and he was learning to fly helicopters. One evening he stopped one of my hands (Mike) with 1066 and 5 bottom semni-mount, asked him to figure out why his manure spreader floor chain kept breaking. Mike had been up past his place plowing headlands that didn't get plowed in fall. I don't know what they resolved about the manure spreader, however during the process the son circled a couple of times with a helicopter. Mike said he thought the dad was going to go for the rifle to try and shoot him down. He was growling about the son always screwing up his equipment, then it wouldn't work when he needed it. In the end the subject switched to his plow, and he took Mike to the drive shed. He wanted Mike to mount the plow on his 354 to plow his garden. Mike told him, he could plow the garden with 1066 quicker than they could remove rubble in front of his plow.
I remembered this at the time as I thought Fred had a SC with the old pre fast hitch mounted plow. Mike was telling me this story next morning at milking, and advised me the SC was gone and he had this 354, and had it for about 2 years. Mike told me before evening was over, young Angus landed the helicopter and it sunk in soft clay, bad enough that it could not lift off again. He said I expect Angus is up there this morning jacking the helicopter out of the mud. This made me remember my dating of the 354.
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