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Posted by Allan on November 26, 2003 at 03:12:41 from (148.63.132.164):
I hope someone can straighten out my screwed up thinking as this is totally driving me up a wall!! I was fortunate enough to have been born to a farm family, which operated an irrigated outfit in western Nebraska. The farms lay flat as a pancake; not a hill in sight, in any direction. When I was a very short person, my dad bought a brand new H. He always told me that it was a ’53 model; however, I don’t remember any “Super H” decals nor did it have disk brakes. I remember him painting it once long ago (‘bout 1960) and putting on new decals, which just said “H”. It seems to me that it had 11.5/38 tires. Later, in about 1964 or so, I helped him overhaul the engine and we put in the ‘pop-up’ piston kit. I don’t recall any big power difference at that time, but that was many years ago. But, I remember him saying that it should have more horsepower now. It had those long axles, what were they? Something like 102”? Anyway, we had to buy the bigger, wider Farmhand F-10 loader to clear those wide axles. The loader had the big hay basket with steel teeth and that big steel push off. We used that old H to put up heavy alfalfa hay for years and years with no problems. We used it to run the beet topper, to cut beans, to cultivate beets, corn and beans and in short, just about every job on the place except for the plowing which was done by the larger Ms, 400s, 560s and on up the line. We used it in the winter to feed cattle; still mounted with the F-10 loader with a grapple and a PTO powered JD feed wagon hooked on behind. My dad got sick and passed in 1974 and I continued using that old H for the smaller jobs around the place up until 1983 when I sold it. It was just a damned good old tractor. Okay, fast forward to the present. I’m kind of a grumpy old semi-retired man who has moved up in the hills and I buy this “restored” ’51 H because I want something to clear snow and mow grass around my “hill place” and I’m remembering what a good tractor that old H was. This ’51 seems to run fine and all working parts seem to be in order; but I haven’t really used it all that much yet. Yesterday, the local implement company gets the smaller F-11 loader with the wide bucket, which I just bought, mounted on this second “H” and delivers it back out here to my place. The front tires are pretty low as I forgot to check the air in them prior to hauling the tractor to town, but it is getting late and I decide to air them up today when it gets light. What is driving me crazy is this: That old H from years ago would absolutely pull circles around this one. The smaller F-11 loader seems to be just about all that this tractor wants. It is like I have more loader than I have tractor. The tail seems to be waggin’ the dog. Coming up my steep drive in 4th won’t work; I have to use 3rd gear! It’s pretty steep, but I don’t think it is that steep. Was that old “H” bigger than I thought it was? Or, do I have one sick, tired & worn out tractor on my hands now? Maybe, I need to look into some tuning? To me, this H should handle that smaller loader with ease. Or, maybe my old brain is just showing it’s age like the tractor and I ‘m not “remembering” correctly? I dunno. Thanks for any thoughts, Allan
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