Re: Bigger than an M??? One for her...

Posted by Tim Malin on September 28, 2004 at 18:47:58 from (137.104.67.4):

In Reply to: Re: Bigger than an M??? One for her... posted by I Bleed Green on September 28, 2004 at 17:57:11:

Well, his wife wants something bigger than an M. Well, that leaves what for that IH era? MTA, and 400 and 450 don't have the true M styling. She wants something taller, which would leave MV, but they are not cheap by any means. A W-9 is almost the same height with a lot more sack and a massive engine. I was just suggesting. I am well aware that the W stands for wheatland, and even 1206 wheatland's were labeled International rather than Farmall. Basically anything that could be equipped with a tricylcle front end was a Farmall, and the stockier W-series carried either the McCormick of McCormick Deering decals. Even the 600 and 650 had International as their plates. I am facinated by my uncle's W-4 and W-6, and, as I said in my original post, this would be a topic for him worth considering. He may go look at a picture and like the tractor and start looking for one, or he may look at some others and say maybe a 450 is the way to go. I have always had a facination for the belt power of the W-9 after watching one at a Minnesota show, because I run my Super M and two friend's M-TA's at our local show on the sawmill, and a W-9 would walk away if it were to operate also. I've seen a 450 on the same mill, and it runs a hair better, but it will never be a W-9. How else can you compete against a engine with pistons the size of coffee cans? With all due respect to your favorite color, which is great, I love some green too, but I have been around red (and earlier gray!!) all of my life. I did not intend to undershoot Adam Paul at all, but I figured a simple answer for my two cents would be a lead in the right path. Women are so difficult and different, there was no way two inches from a hot iron I was going to tell him a certain tractor was the way to go. If he asked me to go shopping with him, I could tell him more about IH tractors than he would ever care to know, because I love them that much. IH's styling and numbering system is just so confusing and varying ...well, just look at the discussions and debates on here when everyone with the same models of tractors yet arguing what is really "original." I try to stay out of those conversations unless I have something in writing. Thank you for clarifying the Farmall/McCormick issue with others on this board who may not quite know, yet. Those of us on the Farmall Discussion Board and those of us who are members of Red Power's Forum, members like myself, for the last 3 years now, pick up these things from time to time. Newbies sometimes learn just by reading other posts.

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