Re: Re: Super H seat color

Posted by The Dukester on July 31, 2003 at 19:51:15 from (65.89.19.81):

In Reply to: Re: Super H seat color posted by Guy Fay on July 31, 2003 at 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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