If all the other things that have been suggested here check out OK, it IS possible to start an H in fifth. I'll pass on a couple of comments. IH engineers saved a few gears (and dollars) by going to a direct-drive dog-clutch in fifth. This is identical in principle to the 3rd gear on a traditional American 3-speed auto transmission, but without synchro. I always thought IH missed the boat on this one. JD and Oliver both had a fifth gear that was really useful (somewhere around 8 mph; throttled back a bit, you could have pulled a loaded wagon on a gravel road) and a sixth that would have been useful, too (somewhere around 12 mph; throttled back about 3/4, you could have gotten enough torque to pull a loaded wagon at a sensible speed on a paved road). When I was young and foolish (I think that line comes from an Irish song about a long-lost love), I loved ripping up and down the road in front of the farm, wide-open, wind-in-the-face, doing probably 18 mph no-load. In time, when some shimmy began to develop in the front end, I got more cautious (and older). In recent years, when I got a chance to drive an H or M on the road, I just pulled 'er back to about 10 mph and enjoyed the peaceful ride. I remember painful attempts to pull a loaded wagon in fifth gear on a dirt road. No torque at 5 or 6 mph, so you had to use 4th, wide-open and noisy. Without a load, an H in good shape WILL start in fifth, but, as the others have said here, you have to give it some throttle, then slip the clutch just enough not to stall the engine. I got onto double-clutching on our ton-and-a-half Chevvy when I was maybe 12, but it never seemed to work very well on the H, because of the enormous difference in ratios between 4th and 5th. Suppose it can be done, with practice.
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